Orality and literacy in the Demotic tales

Jay, Jacqueline E.

Orality and literacy in the Demotic tales [Texte imprimé] / by Jacqueline E. Jay - Leiden : Brill, cop. 2016 - 1 vol. (363 p.) ; 24 cm - Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; 81 .

Notes bibliogr.

Orality, literacy, and the development of Egyptian narrative literature -- Going deeper: the evidence for orality -- The Inaros cycle and the Egyptian "Homeric question" -- Other Demotic narratives -- Egyptian literature and the Greek novel

978-90-04-32306-3

Egyptian language--Papyri, Demotic Egyptian language--Demotic, ca. 650 B.C.-450 A.D. Tales--Egypt Oral tradition--Egypt Egyptian literature--History and criticism

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