scholarly journals Benjamin Koerber, Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laure Guirguis
Keyword(s):  
Egyptian Literature

The Reception of Demotic Narrative

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tait
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Reception Theory ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Oral Performance ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Prose Narratives ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses aspects of Demotic Egyptian prose narratives of the Greek and Roman periods, viewed against the background of the growing significance of reception theory in the study of ancient Egyptian literature in general. It reviews the development since the nineteenth century of ideas on the ancient audiences for Demotic literature. The problematic evidence for readers and performance is examined, to a very limited extent with reference to the nature of the finds and find-spots of manuscripts, but chiefly by paying attention to their format and their contents. As for the relationship with oral literature, it is suggested that the material essentially belonged to a written tradition, and was designed primarily for oral performance within temple communities.

Egyptian Life, by and with Literary Texts

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludwig D. Morenz
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Potential Significance ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Belles Lettres ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
And Function ◽  
Writing Errors ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Middle Egyptian

This chapter discusses aspects of Egyptian ‘fine literature’ (belles-lettres), and combines general literary and cultural-scientific theoretical considerations with specific case studies from both Middle Egyptian and Late Egyptian literature. It addresses questions of form and function, producers and recipients, as well as discussing the search for empirical readers. Also discussed are the question of original manuscripts and the potential significance of writing errors.

Ancient Egyptian Literature

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena M. Lepper
Keyword(s):  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Vocabulary Richness ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
Middle Egyptian

This chapter discusses the genre and style of Ancient Egyptian literature. Through the application of lexicostatistics, it analyses a total of fifty texts. Having examined the vocabulary size of Middle Egyptian narratives, Late Egyptian narratives, speeches, and dialogues, the texts under investigation are grouped into genres such as ‘religious texts’, ‘artful prose’, ‘poetry’, ‘teachings’, and so on. On the basis of texts existing in several copies, it becomes apparent that a text maintains a constant vocabulary richness independent of its length. Each copy therefore facilitates the determination of the genre of a text. Furthermore, the language of a text (Middle or Late Egyptian) proves not to be decisive for the vocabulary richness of a text, but rather it is genre that is indicative. The chapter also investigates the question of the practical function of texts, which can best be detected during experimental reading.

The Practice of Literature

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Eyre
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Contemporary Practice

This chapter discusses the ways in which a literary criticism for Ancient Egypt can be embedded in the contemporary practice of literature. This is distinguished from a criticism rooted in visions of literature as an autonomous artefact of culture. It examines evidence for the practitioners of literature and their audience, modes and occasions of reading, degrees of formal structure (including use of metre), genre, and the nature of publication, to argue that oral and written literature were not separate categories, either of practice or cultural evolution. It is emphasised that criticism of Egyptian literature needs to focus on the manner of its recitation against its survival as a written artefact, and that genres of ritual and rhetoric overlap in form and performance with those of narrative, lyric, and instruction.

Cairo's Downtown in Narratives

2019 ◽  
pp. 356-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mougibelrahman Aboamer ◽  
Dalia Abdelfattah
Keyword(s):  
Historical Review ◽  
Active Part ◽  
First Republic ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
The City ◽  
Dramatic Fall ◽  
The Revolution

Cairo's downtown, through sociopolitical conditions, had been moved from a single city to a hardship one. The authors attempt using a method of multiple readings to provide a new comprehension for the city by using the historical review side by side with several examples from Egyptian literature that describes this dramatic evolution. For this neighborhood, it is considered an active part of Cairo. The period they suggest for scanning the literature begins from Cairo Great Fire in 1952 and its consequences. The year of 1952 and the constitution of the first republic until the dramatic fall of this last by the revolution of January 2011. This chapter aims to articulate the evolution of Downtown Cairo from the singularity to the hardship.

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