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- The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
- The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Historical Perspectives
- Chapter 2 Authorship in Cuneiform Literature
- Chapter 3 Authorship in Ancient Egypt
- Chapter 4 Authorship in Archaic and Classical Greece
- Chapter 5 Authorship in Classical Rome
- Chapter 6 Conceptions of Authorship in Early Jewish Cultures
- Chapter 7 Modes of Authorship and the Making of Medieval English Literature
- Chapter 8 Manuscript and Print Cultures 1500–1700
- Chapter 9 The Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 10 The Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 11 Industrialized Print
- Chapter 12 Postmodernist Authorship
- Chapter 13 Chinese Authorship
- Chapter 14 Literary Authorship in the Digital Age
- Part II Systematic Perspectives
- Part III Practical Perspectives
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Authorship in Ancient Egypt
from Part I - Historical Perspectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2019
- The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
- The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Historical Perspectives
- Chapter 2 Authorship in Cuneiform Literature
- Chapter 3 Authorship in Ancient Egypt
- Chapter 4 Authorship in Archaic and Classical Greece
- Chapter 5 Authorship in Classical Rome
- Chapter 6 Conceptions of Authorship in Early Jewish Cultures
- Chapter 7 Modes of Authorship and the Making of Medieval English Literature
- Chapter 8 Manuscript and Print Cultures 1500–1700
- Chapter 9 The Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 10 The Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 11 Industrialized Print
- Chapter 12 Postmodernist Authorship
- Chapter 13 Chinese Authorship
- Chapter 14 Literary Authorship in the Digital Age
- Part II Systematic Perspectives
- Part III Practical Perspectives
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Around 1200 BCE, at the height of Egyptian literary culture, a scribe named Mersekhmet wrote a school text in which he praised his own profession as the best one to reach immortality
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship , pp. 27 - 45Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019