important contributions on AE literature

This book contains articles on the literature from the Old, Middle and Late Kingdoms, demotic, coptic, and mediaeval times. The material is written in German, French and English - the three major languages of the field of Egyptology. The genres discussed include narrative, didactic, poetry and wisdom texts. This discussion of the language of the literature was produced in collaboration of scholarly authors : Lichtheim, Quirke, Loprieno, Parkinson, Assmann, Baines, Guglielmi, Vernus, Blumenthal, Derchain and many others. It is a contemporary, exhaustive scholarly research on Ancient Egyptian literature. 'Heavy' in material, it is recommended for scholars and motivated students.

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