Table of Contents

I: Approaches - The Study of Middle Kingdom 'Literature' - General Considerations: Definitions, Genre, Interpretation - II: Context and Intertext - Texts and Intertext - The Social Context - Literature and Culture - Literary Form - Cultural Themes of Literature - III: Readings - Tales - Discourses and Dialogues - Teachings - Reading the Poems - Appendix 1 Survey of the Middle Kingdom Literary Corpus - Appendix 2 Kemit

About the Author

Richard Parkinson is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum.