Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature : How to Tell a Story (Cuneiform Monographs)

Shehata, Dahlia (EDT)/ Sonik, Karen (EDT)

Brill（2024/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 300 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004697560

Full Description

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.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: How to Tell a Story in Ancient Mesopotamia

 Dahlia Shehata and Karen Sonik

Part 1 Issues, Theories, and Methods

1 Mesopotamian Literature: Theories, Methods, and Issues of Sumerian and Akkadian Narrative Analysis

 Karen Sonik and Dahlia Shehata

Part 2 Sumerian Narratives: Narratological Approaches

2 Focalization and "Story Time": Techniques of Sumerian Narrative

 Anne Löhnert

3 There and Back Again: Journeying and Narrative Structure in the Sumerian Lugalbanda Epics

 Gina Konstantopoulos

Part 3 Akkadian Gilgamesh Narratives: Contextual and Intertextual Approaches

4 Gilgamesh and the Forest of Gemstones: Symbolic Value—History of Tradition—Intertextuality

 Martin Lang

5 Journey towards Death: The Cedar Forest in the SB Gilgamesh Epic from an Intertextual Perspective

 Selena Wisnom

6 Allusion or No Allusion: Commenting on the Interpretations of SB Gilgamesh Epic V1-26 and IX171-194

 Gösta Ingvar Gabriel

Part 4 Assyrian Royal Narratives: Contextual and Intertextual Approaches

7 The Good, the Bad, (and the Ugly?): Propaganda and the Tukulti-Ninurta Epic

 Stefan Jakob

8 A Methodology for the Transtextual Analysis of Assyrian Royal Narrative Texts

 Johannes Bach

9 Making the Invisible Visible: Propaganda, Ideology, and Intertextuality in Assyrian Royal Narrative

 Jamie Novotny and Karen Sonik

Part 5 Sumerian and Akkadian Narratives: Novel Approaches

10 Characterization and Identity in Mesopotamian Literature: The Gilgamesh Epic, Enuma elish, and Other Sumerian and Akkadian Narratives

 Karen Sonik

Index