The Egyptian Pronoun
Lyric, Novel, the Book of the Dead
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4270729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wai Chee Dimock (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 619-643 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.0.0047 |
| OpenAlex | W2054464459 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
How many continents can we realistically embrace, what time frames be come necessary, and do these yield a new morphology of genres, along with new longitudes and latitudes? What is the relation between scale and scope in this exercise, between details observable at close range and patterns discernable from afar? In what follows, I propose to go back to the ancient world?to Egypt? to make a case for a literary history with just this broad compass. Cru cial to this undertaking is what Anne Freadman calls an inter-generic landscape, populated not by discrete classes of literary objects but by the breakdown of that discreteness, a process of transposing, adapting, and cross-fertilizing, enacted on every route, every locale.1 The his tory of genres, told as a formal diaspora?a history of scattering and recombining?calls for a theater of maximum length and width, for to the extent that movement has always been a human propensity, choreo graphed by words no less than by bodies, the relational arcs generated must span several continents and several thousand years. Far-flung kin ship emerges here as key. Lyric and novel, not ordinarily imagined as having much to do with each other, are recast and reintegrated by these enlarged coordinates. Their kinship is counterintuitive, though I hope
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |