Remembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egypt Representational System - Couverture rigide

Hare, Tom

 
9780804731782: Remembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egypt Representational System
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0804731780 ISBN 13 : 9780804731782
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The texts and visual arts of ancient Egypt reveal a persistent and sophisticated engagement with problems of language, the body, and multiplicity. This innovative book shows how these issues were represented in ancient Egypt and how Egyptian approaches to them continue to influence the way we think about them today.

The story of Osiris is one of the central cultural myths of ancient Egypt, a story of dismemberment and religious passion that also exemplifies attitudes about personal identity, sexuality, and the transfer of royal power. It is, moreover, a story of death and the overcoming of death, and in this it lies at the center of our own means of engagement with ancient Egypt.

This book focuses on the story of Osiris as it is recorded in Egyptian texts and memorialized on the walls of temples and tombs. Since such a focus is attainable only through Egyptian representational systems, especially hieroglyphs, the book also engages broader questions of writing and visual representation: decipherment, controversies about the "ideograph," and the relation between visual images and writing.

This analysis of Egyptian representation leads to a consideration of the phallic body and the problem of multiplicity in Egyptian religion, two nets of Egyptian discourse that, though integrated into the writing system itself, reach toward broader Egyptian discourses of gender, subjectivity, piety, and cosmogenesis. The concluding chapter considers, in specific terms, the question of a persisting Egyptian legacy in the West, from the Greeks and Israelites to Augustine, Hegel, and Lacan.

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À propos de l?auteur

Tom Hare is Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of Zeami's Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo (Stanford, 1986).

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804731780
ISBN 13 
9780804731782
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780804731799: Remembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems

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ISBN 10 :  0804731799 ISBN 13 :  9780804731799
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 1999
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