The craft of a good scribe history, narrative and meaning in the First Tale of Setne Khaemwas /

"In The Craft of a Good Scribe, Steve Vinson offers a comprehensive study of the Demotic Egyptian First Tale of Setne Khaemwas (Third Century BCE), the first to appear since 1900. "First Setne" is the most important extant Demotic literary text, and among the most important fictional...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
Author / Creator: Vinson, Steve (مؤلف)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:English
Imprint: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
سلاسل:Harvard Egyptological studies, volume 3
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.
جدول المحتويات:
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  • An unfathomable snare of the evil one
  • An excellently weird and romantic story
  • From Daffodils to Derrida
  • Narrative and meaning. The "First tale of Setne Khaemwas"
  • Repetition, mirroring and mise en abyme
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  • At what is it that He Gazed?
  • Ihweret, Tabubue and the "Magic book of thoth".