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Taking as a background two notorious travelogues from pharaonic Egypt, this book promises to stir the debate on ancient Egyptian literary fiction. Following an analysis of traditional Egyptological criticism, the author outlines a theoretical framework in which works like Sinuhe or Wenamun can be considered as literary fictions. Travelling abroad and boundary transgression come out convincingly as the decisive criteria of Egyptian fictionality. Context is being given in part two of the work, in which at the same time the boundary transgression theme is shown to be one of specific importance in the culture of ancient Egypt. In his final chapter Gerald Moers acts as the reader's guide through a fresh re-read of ancient Egyptian travel literature. Fingierte Welten thus offers a historically expanded perspective on fictionality, and is of special interest not only to Egyptologists, but to all those interested in comparative literature.

Egyptian fiction --- Egyptian literature --- Roman égyptien ancien --- Littérature égyptienne --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- -Egyptian literature --- -Ancient Egyptian literature --- -History and criticism --- Roman égyptien ancien --- Littérature égyptienne --- Egyptian fiction - History and criticism --- Egyptian literature - History and criticism

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A central issue of Egyptological research is the question of dating the original composition of religious or literary texts. Very prominent is a lively debate about the date of composition of a number of literary texts, traditionally dated to the Late First Intermediate Period or the Early Middle Kingdom but known only from New Kingdom manuscripts. Over the last years, several attempts have been made to date the production of some of these texts much closer to their fi rst physical appearance. More recently the discussion has heated up considerably with contributions that argue for a New Kingdom origin of Merikare, Neferti, and Amenemhet—a reassessment based on conceptions of Egyptian cultural history or on linguistic analysis. On the other hand, there is an equally strong tendency to retain at least the early datings or to propose even earlier ones for some literary and many more religious texts.

Egyptian literature --- Egyptian language --- Inscriptions, Egyptian --- Texts --- Egypt --- History --- Conferences - Meetings --- Ancient Egyptian literature --- Afroasiatic languages --- Egyptian language - Texts - Congresses --- Egyptian literature - Congresses

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