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Jeremy Black
Reading Sumerian Poetry [PDF ebook]

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An analysis of the oldest form of poetry. Sumer, in the southern part of Iraq, created the first literary culture in history, as early as 2500BC. The account is structured around a complete English translation of the fragmentary Lugalbanda poems, narrating the adventures of the eponymous hero. The study reveals a work of a rich and sophisticated poetic imagination and technique, which, far from being in any sense ”primitive”, are so complex as to resist much modern literary analysis.

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Format PDF ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9780567270153 ● Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing ● Published 2000 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2973923 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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