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Shared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt's second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied since 2011. Instead, it offers a fieldwork-based account of various milieus and styles, and their common grounds and lines of division. Structured in two parts, Shared Margins gives an account of literature as a social practice embedded in milieus that at once enable and limit literary imagination, and of a life-worldly experience of plurality in absence of pluralism that marks literary engagements with the intimate and social realities of Alexandria after 2011. Literary writing, this book argues, has marginality as an at once enabling and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal milieu, and yet are never unlimited. Literary imagination is part and parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity.

Authors, English. --- Egyptian literature --- History and criticism.

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Drawing on case-studies from the first millennium BCE, this volume explores canonisation as a form of cultural formation. The book asks why and how canonisation works and thereby investigates the importance of the concept of anchoring to arrive at innovation in particular. Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman) as case studies. It focuses on canonisation as a form of cultural formation, asking why and how canonisation works in this particular way and explaining the importance of the first millennium BCE for these question and vice versa. As a result of this focus, notions like anchoring, cultural memory, embedding and innovation play an important role throughout the book.

Authors, Texts, Literature. --- Biblical Studies. --- Classical Studies. --- Greek & Latin Literature. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Ancient Near East and Egypt. --- Criticism. --- Canon (Literature) --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Assyrian literature --- Persian literature --- Greek literature, Hellenistic --- Egyptian literature --- Jewish literature --- Hebrew literature --- Roman literature --- Babylonian literature --- Hellenistic Greek literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Jews --- Judaica --- Ancient Egyptian literature --- Pakistani literature --- Akkadian literature --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Criticism --- Literature --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Evaluation