Contemporary approaches to Mesopotamian literature : how to tell a story / edited by Dahlia Shehata, Karen Sonik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shehata, Dahlia, editor.

Sonik, Karen, editor.

Series:

Cuneiform monographs ; 56.

Cuneiform monographs ; volume 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sumerian literature--History and criticism.

Sumerian literature.

Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and criticism.

Assyro-Babylonian literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiv, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Summary:

"This volume lays theoretical and methodological groundwork for the analysis of Mesopotamian literature. A comprehensive first chapter by the editors explores critical contemporary issues in Sumerian and Akkadian narrative analysis, and nine case studies written by an international array of scholars test the responsiveness of Sumerian and Akkadian narratives to diverse approaches drawn from literary studies and theories of fiction. Included are intertextual and transtextual analyses, studies of narrative structure and focalization, and treatments of character and characterization. Works considered include the Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic and many other Sumerian and Akkadian narratives of gods, heroes, kings, and monsters"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004697560

900469756X

OCLC:

1436904658