Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt

By Richard Parkinson,

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The Middle Kingdom (c.1940-1640 BC) was a golden age of Ancient Egyptian writing. This study radically reassesses Middle Kingdom poems' cultural role, drawing on recent studies of the individual texts, some by the author, and on general developments in literary criticism to argue that they were entertainments that voiced potentially…

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Professor Parkinson's work is a magnificent analysis of the Egyptian literature of the Middle Kingdom, traditionally considered the golden age of Egyptian letters, to the new visions present in current literary studies.

This is a work that goes beyond traditional translations of the most significant texts, as it tries to contextualize them historically, culturally, and literary.

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