Items added within the last three calendar months are marked "NEW."
|
General Specific Motifs Architecture & Sculpture Painting & Related Arts Literary & Textual Matters: modern Literary & Textual Matters: ancient Performing Arts Cinema & Television Decorative Arts & Fashion Ephemera, Advertising, & Economics Philosophy & Psychology Religion, Magic, & the Occult Hieroglyphs & Linguistics Science, Medicine & Economics Egyptian Origins, Parallels, Afrocentrism & General Issues of Race Pharaonic Egypt in Classical Antiquity Pharaonic Egypt in Coptic Culture Ancient Egypt in Islamic Egypt Pharaonic Egypt in Foreign Post-Roman Contexts Museums, Collections , Exhibits & Excavations Biography & Autobiography Period Source Material for the Decorative Arts & Architecture Web Sites |
Specific
Motifs
Assman, Jan. 1997. Moses the Egyptian: the memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Moses is a figure of memory, not of history, continually reinterpreted and and transformed. Aziza, Claude. 1996. Les romans de momies: fantasme(s) d’archéologie ou d’histoire? In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 551-583. Mummies in literature and film, from 1818 (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) to 1994. Includes the text for J.F. Regnard's 1696 play "Les momies d’Égypte." Bentley, Juliette. 1992. Akhenaten in the eye of the beholder. do changing interpretations of the heretic king reflect contemporary values of his assessors?, Amarna Letters (San Francisco) 2 (Fall 1992): 6-8. Interpretations of the "heretic king" from the 19th century to the present. Cowie, Susan D. & Tom Johnson. 2002. The Mummy in Fact, Fiction and Film. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., Inc. Mummies, mostly Egyptian, in horror and non-horror movies and novels. Includes plot summaries. Daly, N. 1994. That obscure object of desire: Victorian commodity culture and fictions of the mummy. Novel 28.1:24 51. Day, Jasmine. 2006. The Mummy's Curse: mummymania in the English-speaking World, 1800-2005. London: Routledge. Day, Jasmine. 2006. Mummymania: mummies, museums, and popular culture. Kmt 17.2:77-83. Frayling, Christopher. The Face of Tutankhamun. London: Faber & Faber. Includes a chapter on "Tutmania." NEW 9/08: Frost, Brian J. 2008. The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. Grafton, Anthony. 1997. The Obelisks' Tale. The New Republic (24 November 1997): 38-42. Review of Assman 1997. Green, L. 1993. Mummymania. Kmt 3.4 (Winter 1992-1993):34-37. NEW 8/08: Haarmann, Ulrich. 1978. Die Sphinx: synkretistische Volksreligiosität im spätmittelalterlichen islamischen Ägypten. Saeculum 24:367-384. <http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/4619/>. Hamer, Mary. 1993. Signs of Cleopatra: history, politics, representation. Independence KY: Routledge. Hughes-Hallett, Lucy. 1990. Cleopatra: histories, dreams and distortions. New York: Harper & Row. Interpretations of Cleopatra reflect their eras, from ancient times to the present. Humbert, Jean-Marcel. 1996b. Postérité du sphinx antique: la sphinxomanie et ses sources. In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 97-138. Variations of the sphinx; symbolism of the sphinx in decoration, esotericism, politics, advertising, etc. Johnson, C. 1991. The limbs of Osiris: Reed's Mumbo Jumbo and Hollywood's The Mummy. MELUS: the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 17.4:105-115. Kitchen, K.A. 1982. Pharaoh Triumphant: the life and times of Ramesses II. Warminster: Aris & Phillips. The final chapter examines the reputation of Ramesses the Great among later generations and use of his image in modern times. Montserrat, Dominic. 2001. Akhenaten: history, fantasy and ancient Egypt. London & New York: Routlege. Analysis of interpretations of the "heretic king" by Egyptologists, Afrocentrists, Nazi propagandists, mystics, novelists, and others. Lupton, Carter. 2003. "Mummymania" for the masses -- is Egyptology cursed by the mummy's curse? In: Consuming Ancient Egypt. Ed. Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. London: University College London Press: 23-46. Mummies in popular culture, especially literature and the cinema. Pollès, Renan. 2001. La Momie de Kheops à Hollywood: généologie d'un mythe. Paris: Amateur. Regier, Willis Goth. 2004. The Book of the Sphinx. Linoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. Both Egyptian and Greek sphinxes in myth, poetry, fiction, the visual arts, advertising, and so on. Rösche-von der Hyde, Wiebke. 1999. Das Sphinx-Bild im Wandel der Zeiten. Vorkommen und Bedeutung. 2 volumes. ??: Marie Leidorf. A study of the symbolism of the sphinx from ancient times to the present, including a catalog listing 2,000 representations. Royster, Francesca. 2003. Becoming Cleopatra: the shifting image of an icon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Race and sexuality in portrays of Cleopatra, especially in 20th century cinemetography. Walker, Susan & Peter Higgs (eds.). 2001. Cleopatra of Egypt: from history to myth. London: British Museum Press. Catalog of an exhibition, with essays on the various forms that later eras have given to Cleopatra. WEB SITES: This Way to the Mummies., by S. J. Wolfe. <<http://home.earthlink.net/~perseshen/id13.html>>
|
