" ... originated in a conference entitled "Framing plots : the grammar of ancient Near Eastern narratives", held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 16th - 17th December 2005"--Foreword. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Examining the "literariness" of Wenamon from the perspective of the grammar of narrative / A oral-compositional form of pyramid text discourse / Jacqueline E. Jay -- Variation in Sumerian myths as a reflection of literary creativity / Bendt Alster -- Hero and villain : analyses of Sargon and Ur-Zababa / Graham Cunningham -- Of spice and mine : the tale of the shipwrecked sailor and Middle Kingdom expedition inscriptions / Roland Enmarch -- Monstrous identities : narrative strategies in Lugale and some reflections on Sumerian religious narrative / Laura Feldt -- Broken icons : the emplotting of master-narratives in the Ancient Egyptian tale of Sinuhe / Gerald Moers -- Text as territory : mapping Sinuhe's shifting loyalties / José-Ramón Pérez-Accino -- Narrative and framing strategies in Old Babylonian Akkadian literature / Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- 1500-500 BC. A true secret of the house of life : prosody, intertext and performance in magical texts / Joanna Kyffin -- Intertextuality in Ancient Egyptian visitors' graffiti? / Hana Navrátilova -- Narrative methodologies in Ancient Egyptian art history : the military reliefs of Ramsses II at Luxor / Aaron Smith -- Examining the "literariness" of Wenamon from the perspective of the grammar of narrative / Jacqueline E. Jay -- Intertextuality, ideology and culture : trajectories of narrato-logical inquiries in ancient Near and Middle Eastern literatures / Wen-chin Ouyang. Afterword. syntax of narrative forms / Robert S. Kawashima -- 500 BC-AD 2000. Information structure and word order in the Aramaic of the Book of Daniel / Ilya Yakubovich -- The sinews of demonic narrative / John Tait -- The narrative of continuity between the Teaching of Addai and the Acts of Mari : two historical novels? / Ilaria Ramelli -- Rhetorical narratives, tableaux and scenarios : work-notes on narrative poetics in Shenoutean Sahidic Coptic / Ariel Shisha-Halevy -- Masterplots and martyrs : narrative techniques in Bohairic hagiography / Ewa D. Zakrzewska -- The discourse function of independent pronominal subjects in North Eastern Neo-Aramaic -- Afterword. Intertextuality, ideology and culture : trajectories of narrato-logical inquiries in ancient Near and Middle Eastern literatures / Wen-chin Ouyang.
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