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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Fox, Michael V., 1940- Song of Songs and the ancient Egyptian love songs. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1985 (OCoLC)568308350 Online version: Fox, Michael V., 1940- Song of Songs and the ancient Egyptian love songs. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1985 (OCoLC)607712251 |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael V Fox |
ISBN: | 0299100901 9780299100902 0299100944 9780299100940 |
OCLC Number: | 11866853 |
Notes: | Includes indexes. |
Description: | xxvii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Part One: Translation and commentary -- 1. The Egyptian love songs -- Introduction -- Source I: P. Harris 500 -- Source II: The Cairo love songs -- Excursus: The Cairo love songs -- Source III: The Turin love songs -- Source IV: P. Chester Beatty I -- Excursus: Mehi and his followers -- Source V: Miscellanea -- 2. The Song of Songs -- Translation -- Commentary. Part Two: The literary treatment of love -- 3. Language, dating, and historical context -- A. The Egyptian love songs -- Dating -- Historical-cultural setting -- B. The Song of Songs -- Dating -- Historical-cultural setting -- Channels of literary transmission -- 4. The composition of the sources and the songs -- A. The Egyptian love songs -- Survey -- Unity and diversity -- B. The Song of Songs -- Literary unity -- Repetends -- Associative sequences -- Character portrayal -- narrative frame -- The unity of the song -- Multiple authorship: Zersingen -- Constituent units and the structure of the son -- 5. What the love songs were used for: Function and social setting -- Form criticism and life setting -- Courting songs -- Wedding songs -- Love magic -- Religious poetry -- Love songs and the sacred marriage -- Mortuary songs: Love and death -- Love poetry as entertainment -- Excursus: The sacralization of the Song of Songs. 6. Who is speaking and how? Voice and mode of presentation -- A. Dramatic character -- Author and personae -- Drama -- The literary function of dramatic presentation -- B. Forms of discourse -- Interior monologue -- Exterior monologue -- Double monologue -- Dialogue -- Grammatical person -- 7. What the songs speak about: The major themes -- A. Praise of the beloved -- The Egyptian love songs -- The Song of Songs -- Mesopotamian parallels -- B. Description of love -- The Egyptian love songs -- The Song of Songs -- C. Wishes -- D. The paraclausithyron -- E. Love in the garden -- The Egyptian love songs -- The Song of Songs -- Mesopotamian sacred marriage songs -- F. The nobility of loves -- G. The Alba -- H. The love trap -- I. Traveling to a rendezvous -- J. Seeking the beloved -- K. The invitation to come away -- L. Excursus: The "travesties." 8. Love and lovers in the love songs -- A. Speaking about love -- B. Speaking about sex -- C. Lovers and others -- Girls of Jerusalem and the "lovers" -- D. Lover and lover: Love as mutual relationship -- Sex roles and distinctions -- Sexual relations -- Communication between lovers -- E. Lover and self -- Love as emotion -- Love as vision -- Appendix A: Related texts -- Appendix B: Concordance of Egyptian words -- Appendix C. Hieroglyphic transcription of the Egyptian love songs. |
Responsibility: | Michael V. Fox. |
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