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(author?) 2004. Collecting MPM: Barbara Mertz, Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. Firsts: the book collector's magazine (June). Addy, S.M. 1998. Rider Haggard and Egypt. Accrington: AL Publications. Alcock, Anthony. 1995. A note on the historical works of Naguib Mahfouz. Discussions in Egyptology (Oxford) 33, 7-9. Mahfouz's three historical novels with ancient settings and his novel in which the leaders of Egypt appear for judgment in the netherworld. Barker, Phillip. 1949. Egyptian mythology in fantastic literature. The Fanscient 3.3/9:??-??. Berry, Philippa. ?. Forgetting Egypt: oblivion and anamnesis in Antony and Cleopatra. IRIS: < http://www.univ-paris3.fr/recherche/sites/edea/iris/Communications/Berry-AC-Forgetting.html >. Bidney, Martin. 1992. Land of the solar androgyne: the Russian Symbolist K.D. Bal'mont as poet-ethnographer of Ancient Egypt. Comparative Literature Studies 1: 357-379. Bishop, John. 1993. Joyce's Book of the Dark: Finnegan's Wake. University of Wisconsin Press. Blumenthal, Elke. 1993: Mut-em-enet und die ägyptische Frauen. In: Thomas Mann Jahrbuch 6. Ed. Eckhard Heftrich & Hans Wysling. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann:181-203. Mann's presentation of Potiphar's wife is compared with women in historical reality and ancient mythology. Blunt, A. 1937-1938. The "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" in XVII century France." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 1: 117-137. A discussion of this strange early novel, in which Egyptian architectural forms prevail. Boldereff, Frances M. 1968. Hermes to His Son Thoth: Joyce's Use of Giordano Bruno in Finnegans Wake. Woodward, Pa., Classic Non-Fiction Library. Butler, Andrew M. 1995. The BSFA Award winners: 2, Pyramids by Terry Pratchett. Vector: the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association 186 (December 1995): 4. Looks at this humorous fantasy novel. Chaney, Michael A. 2001. Picturing the mother, claiming Egypt: my bondage and my freedom as auto(bio)ethnography. African American Review 35: ?? Cox, Neil. 2000. La Mort posthume: Maurice Heine and the poetics of decay. Art History 23.3 (September 2000): 450-455. Explores the impact an exhibition of mummies in Paris, c. 1900, had on artists and poets, including Surrealist Maurice Heine and Georges Braque. DiBernard, Barbara. 1980. Alchemy and Finnegans Wake. Albany: State University of New York Press. Publication of the author's State Univ. of New York at Binghamton PhD dissertation (1976). Fang, Karen. 2004. A printing devil, a Scottish mummy, and an Edinburgh Book of the Dead: James Hogg's Napoleonic complex. Studies in Romanticism 43:??. Commentary on early French Egyptology within James Hogg's 1824 novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Fischer, Hans. 1994. Der Ägyptologe Georg Ebers. Eine Fallstudie zum Problem Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit im 19. Jahrhundert. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag in Kommission = Ägypten und Altes Testament. Studien zu Geschichte, Kultur und Religion Ägyptensund des Alten Testaments 25. Franklin, H. Bruce. 1963. The Wake of the Gods: Melville's mythology. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. NEW 9/08: Frost, Brian J. 2008. The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. Gordon, Haim. 1990. Naguib Mahfouz's Egypt: existential themes in his writings. ??: Greenwood Publishing Group. Görg, Manfred. 1993. Das Ägypten des Alten Testaments bei Thomas Mann. Biblische Notizen (München) 66:59-82. Comparison of the Egypt of archaeology, the Egypt of the Old Testament generally, the Egypt of the Joseph story, and the Egypt of Thomas Mann. Griffiths, J. Gwyn. 1992. The impress of Egyptian religion on the Mediaeval "Dialogue of the Soul and Body." In: Gegengabe. Festschrift für Emma Brunner-Traut. Ed. Ingrid Gamer-Wallert, Wolfgang Helck. Tübingen: Attempto Verlag:103-118. Grimm, Alfred. 1992. Joseph und Echnaton:Thomas Mann und Ägypten. Mainz am Rhein:Verlag Philipp von Zabern. Harvey, A. D. and Jean-Michele Racault. 1991. Simon Berington's Adventures of Sigr. Gaudentio di Lucca. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 4.1 (October): ??-??. Haut, Mavis. 2001. The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: themes and subtexts from Dionysos to the immortal gene. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. Ancient Egyptian figures are among those used by Lee, an author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Holaubek, Johanna. 1994. Die ägyptische Unterwelt in Franz Werfels Jeremias-Roman. In: Zwischen den beiden Ewigkeiten. Festschrift Gertrud Thausing. Ed. Manfred Bietak, Johanna Holaubek, Hans Mukarovsky, Helmut Satzinger. Wien: Im Eigenverlag des Institutes für Ägyptologie der Universität Wien: 91-93. Hornung, Erik. 1993. Thomas Mann, Echnaton und die Ägyptologen. In: Thomas Mann Jahrbuch 6. Ed. Eckhard Heftrich & Hans Wysling. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann:59-70. The Egyptological views that influenced Mann's portrayal of Akhenaten. Hornung, Erik. 1995. Thomas Mann, Akhnaten, and the Egyptologists. Translated by Terence DuQuesne. In: Hermes Aegyptiacus. Egyptological Studies for B.H. Stricker on his 85th birthday. Ed. Terence DuQuesne, Oxford, DE Publications, 1995 = Discussions in Egyptology Special Number 2: 101-113. (Translation of Hornung 1993.) Irwin, John T. 1974. The Symbol of the Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance. American Quarterly 26.2 (May): 103-126. Irwin, John T. 1980. American Hieroglyphics: the symbol of the Egyptian hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. Decipherment of the hieroglyphs inspired 19th century American authors (Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville) to explore the relationship between symbol, language, and meaning. Irwin, Leonard B. 1971. Guide to Historical fiction. McKinley Bibliographies 1. McKinely. This citation is for the tenth new and revised edition. Includes listings for ancient Egypt. James, T.G.H. 1994. A poetic puzzle. In: Hommages à Jean Leclant. Volume. Volume 4: Varia. Ed. Catherine Berger, Gisèle Clerc; Nicolas Grimal. Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1994 = Bibliothèque d'étude, 106/4: 147-151. Edward Thomas's 1915 poem "Swedes" was likely inspired by the opening of the three tombs in the period 1903-1915. Knapp, Bettina. 1984. Andree Chedid. Amsterdam: Collection Monographique en Littérature Française Contemporaine. Examines this authors works, including the influence of ancient Egypt. Langkjær, Michael A. 1991. Ægyptologi og kunst - Mika Waltaris liv og forfatterskab. Papyrus 11.2: 26-59. Langkjær, Michael A. 2001. Fra Ægypteninteresse til Ægypteninspiration i Sinuhe. In: Arven fra Ægypten2. Ed. Erik Christiansen. Århus/Tidsskriftet SFINX: 251-261. Mika Waltari's bestseslling novel, and the impact contemporary Egyptological views of the Amerna Period had upon it. Menke, Bettine. 1994. Memnons Bild: Stimme aus dem Dunkel. Deutsche Viertelsjahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (Stuttgart - Weimar) 68: Sondernummer: 125-144. The colossus of Amenhotep III known as the "Vocal Memnon" as it has appeared in Western literature. Nablov, R. 1989. Shelly, 'Ozymandias,' and Volney's Les Ruines." Notes & Queries 36: 172-137. Niayesh, Ladan. 2003. "Thou art a Roman ; be not barbarous." La Menace africaine dans Antoine et Cléopâtre. In: Lectures d'une uvre : Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare. Ed. Christine Sukic. Paris: Éditions du Temps : 43-58. Egypt as a woman-dominated world, threatening, contaminating, and eventually succombing to man-dominated Rome. Ogdon, J. R. 2002. El antiguo Egipto en la literatura de Naguib Mahfuz. Revista de Egiptología-Isis 8:31-45. Pearce, Michael. 2004. The Mamur Zapt, a man of his time. Firsts: the book collector's magazine (June). The author discusses his literary detective, whose adventures are set in early 20th century Egypt. Pearson, Richard. 2000. Archaeology and gothic desire. In: Victorian Gothic. Ed. Ruth Robins & Julian Wolfreys. New York: Palgrave: 218-244. Egyptian tombs and mummies with erotic connections, largely in the works of H. Rider Haggard. Rees, Joan. 1998. Amelia Edwards: traveller, novelist & Egyptologist. London: The Rubicon Press. Biography. Rodenbeck, J. 2004. Travelers from an antique land: Shelley's inspiration for 'Ozymandias.' Alif 24: 121-148. Ryan, Donald P. 2005. The pharaoh and the poet. Kmt: a modern journal of ancient Egypt 16.4 (Winter 2005-2006): 76-83. Percy Bysshe Shelley and the sources of inspiration for his poem "Ozymandias." Saad el Din, Mursi & John Cromer. 1991. Under Egypt's Spell: the influence of Egypt on writers in English from the 18th century. London: Bellew Publishing. The "influence" is mostly that of modern Egypt, reflecting the time many British and American authors spent there, especially during World War II. Selim, S. 2001. The new Pharaonism: nationalist thought and the Egyptian village novel, 1967-1977. Arab Studies Journal 8:10-24. Slochower, H. 1938. Thomas Mann's Joseph Story. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Störk,, Lothar, I. 1992.
Grabakarabis Pillularis - Orientalisches
in Johann Fischarts "Geschichtsklitterung." In: Gegengabe.
Festschrift für Emma Brunner-Traut. Ed. Ingrid
Gamer-Wallert,
Wolfgang Helck. Tübingen: Attempto Verlag:319-339.
WEB SITES:
Ancient Egypt in Fiction: a bibliography in progress. <<http://www.egyptomania.org/aef/Egyptfiction.html>> An annotated bibliography of long and short fiction in several languages, divided into genres. Walt Whitman and the Arts in Brooklyn: Interest in Ancient Egypt. <<http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/features/2005/whitman/egypt>> Mention by the poet, particularly in an article written for Life Illustrated in 1855, of Egyptian artifacts and gods. |