Gerald Moers (ed.)
Lingua Aegyptia Studia Monographica 29
Hamburg, published in December 2023
doi: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.29
viii+304 p., colour and b&w illustrations, paperback, 600 g.
ISSN: 0946-8641
ISBN (Paperback): 978-3-943955-29-3
ISBN (PDF): 978-3-943955-92-7
The volume collects the result of the project Altägyptische Erzählungen in Texten und Bildern: Ägyptologische Perspektiven auf zentrale Axiome einer historischen Text- und Bildnarratologie. It presents a sound methodological perspective for an analysis of the medial diversity and the historical uniqueness of the Ancient Egyptian narrative culture at the interface of contemporary narratological theories and Egyptological practise. A methodological introduction by Gerald Moers and four case studies on categories of narrative artefacts as diverse as texts, images, and tombs argue in favour of appropriately adjusting narratological theories – instead of just using them – with respect to the historically specific differences of the Egyptian narrative behaviour. Based on a cognitive approach that defines human experience as generally framed in a narrative manner, the contributions define narrative as a phenomenon that is neither restricted to nor defined by one medium that would be considered paradigmatically narrative. The study by Camilla di Biase-Dyson on the Egyptian term s.Dd, which has so far been understood as to refer to linear verbal narrative, argues for a much more complex and sophisticated semantics of the term as defining a specifically Egyptian understanding of what narrative is. In a similar manner, the analysis of certain spells from the Pyramid Texts by Kristina Hutter and Dina Serova establishes the existence of narrative coherence in a genre of texts that has so far been considered as being non-narrative by definition. The study of Claus Jurman on Old Kingdom tombs shows that their integrated compilation of texts, images, statuary, and architecture results in non-linear but complex multimodal narratives. Gerald Moers, in his analysis of exemplary genre-scenes from Ramesside ostraca, shows that even some so-called monochronic images that depict precisely one moment in time and have thus traditionally been said to be a-temporal and non-narrative by definition, often have a clearly structured temporal program and can thus be considered autonomous narratives.
Egyptological narratology as historical narratology: A brief history and some (im-)possibilities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.29.01
What does sDd tell? Reformulating narratological concepts in Egyptology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.29.02
Non, je ne regrette rien! A narratological essay on life writing, life telling, and life reading in Old Kingdom Egypt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.29.03
Ägyptische monochrone Einzelbilder als Erzählungen: Eine Fallstudie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.29.04Appendix
„Erzählte Räume“ in nicht-narrativen Texten: Der Schauplatz als Erzählkategorie am Beispiel von PT 412
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.29.05
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