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Cannibal Hymn: A Cultural and Literary Study (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Music Symposium)
Cannibal Hymn A Cultural and Literary Study - Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Music Symposium
Author: Christopher Eyre
The Cannibal Hymn forms a self-standing episode in the ritual anthology that makes up the Pyramid Texts, first appearing in the tomb of Unas at the end of the Fifth Dynasty. Its style and format are characteristic of the oral-recitational poetry of pharaonic Egypt, marked by allusive metaphor and the exploitation of wordplay and homophony in its...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780853237068
ISBN-10: 0853237069
Publication Date: 5/1/2002
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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