Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories

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In Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry, Richard Parkinson explores how ancient Egyptian poems have been read and perceived across the ages.

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• Presents an innovative and theoretically-informed account of how the most famous ancient Egyptian
  poems have been read over 4,000 years
  
• From a leading expert in the interpretation of ancient Egyptian literature
  
• Explores the original experience of ordinary Egyptians enjoying the poems as well as their interpretation
  during the Middle Kingdom and up to modern times
  
• Draws on recent discoveries in the British Museum archives to reconstruct the contexts of the poems