Foreigners and Egyptians in the late Egyptian stories : linguistic, literary and historical perspectives
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Foreigners and Egyptians in the late Egyptian stories : linguistic, literary and historical perspectives
(Probleme der Ägyptologie, 32)
Brill, 2013
- : hbk
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  Iwate
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  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
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  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Kagawa
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  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Originally published as the author's doctoral thesis, 2009
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Foreigners and Egyptians in the Late Egyptian Stories Camilla Di Biase-Dyson applies systemic functional linguistics, literary theory and New Historicist approaches to four of the Late Egyptian Stories and shows how language was exploited to establish the narrative roles of literary protagonists. The analysis reveals the shifting power dynamics between the Doomed Prince and his foreign wife and the parody in the depiction of the Hyksos ruler Apophis and his Theban counterpart Seqenenre. It also sheds light on the weight of history in the sketch of the Rebel of Joppa and the general Djehuty and explains the interplay of social expectations in the encounters between the envoy Wenamun and the Levantine princes with whom he seeks to trade.
"Overall, Di Biase-Dyson's monograph is an original interdisciplinary examination of an exciting corpus of ancient literary texts." Nikolaos Lazaridis, Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Methodology
Chapter 3: Characterisation in The Doomed Prince
Chapter 4: Characterisation in The Quarrel of Apophis and Seqenenre and The Taking of Joppa
Chapter 5: Characterisation in The Misfortunes of Wenamun
Chapter 6: Findings and Discussion
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Appendices: Transcription, Translation and Grammatical Analysis
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