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Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

By Jacqueline E. Jay

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2016
ISBN
9004323066, 9789004323063
ISSN
1566-2055
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1872248 bytes)
Series
Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 81
Pages
x+363\375
Topic
Literature Literary
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-10-19 09:30:03
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In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of the oral tradition that must have run alongside it. The monograph’s main focus is the intersection of orality and literacy in the extremely rich corpus of Demotic narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period. The many texts discussed include the tales of the Inaros and Setna Cycles, the Myth of the Sun’s Eye, and the Dream of Nectanebo. Jacqueline Jay examines these Demotic tales not only in conjunction with earlier Egyptian literature, but also with the worldwide tradition of orally composed and performed discourse.

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