Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt

R. B. Parkinson is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum. His previous publications include an edition of The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant (1991); Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings (1991); The Tale of Sinuhe and other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640BC (Oxford World Classics 1999); Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories (2009).

• Part One: Approaches 1. The Study of Middle Kingdom "Literature" 2. General Considerations: Definitions, Genre, Interpretation Part Two: Context and Intertext 3. Texts and Intertext 4. The Social Context 5. Literature and Culture 6. Literary Form 7. Cultural Themes of Literature Part Three: Readings 8. Tales 9. Discourses and Dialogues 10. Teachings 11. Reading the Poems Appendix 1: Survey of the Middle Kingdom Literary Corpus Appendix 2: Kemit

'[T]he book reviewed here certainly represents a landmark. It is the first monograph devoted to an integral study and interpretation of the entire corpus of literature preserved from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom.' Joachim Friedrich Quack, Freie Universitat Berlin, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 124.2 'This is an extremely important book' Piotr Michalowski, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations University of Michigan 'Dr Parkinson has produced a work which surpasses all that has been written on Egyptian literature of the classicA" period till now.' E. Hornung, Professor Emeritus, University of Basel