King of Egypt, King of Dreams.
Title:
King of Egypt, King of Dreams.
Author:
MacEwen, Gwendolyn.
ISBN:
9781897414217
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (333 pages)
Contents:
King of Egypt, King of Dreams -- INTRODUCTORY HISTORICAL NOTE -- King of Egypt, King of Dreams -- morning the sun rises -- daytime Aton is in the sky -- night the land is in darkness -- the first hour of the night -- the second hour of the night -- the third hour of the night -- the fourth hour of the night -- the fifth hour of the night -- the sixth hour of the night -- the seventh hour of the night -- the eighth hour of the night -- the ninth hour of the night -- the tenth hour of the night -- the eleventh hour of the night -- the twelfth hour of the night -- THE SECRET PAPYRUS OF AY: Circa 1337 B.C. -- THE PAPYRUS OF MERITATON: Circa 1549 B.C. -- AUTHOR'S NOTES: Historical background and family relationships -- A GLOSSARY OF ANCIENT NAMES AND TERMS -- A -- B -- D -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Afterword -- Suggested Reading.
Abstract:
The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Gwendolyn MacEwen's second novel, more than thirty years after its original appearance in 1971. The novel bears important resemblances to MacEwen's earlier Julian the Magician. Writing to poet Al Purdy, MacEwen confessed she wanted her second novel to be ''bulky, readable, and not overly mysterious.'' Unlike in Julian, however, here MacEwen sets out to write a deeply serious novel that also functions as entertaining historical fiction. The novel's hero is Akhenaton, Pharaoh of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, who was the first ruler to introduce the idea of monotheism. As Rosemary Sullivan remarks in her biography of MacEwen, he was, like Julian, ''one more human being filled with the god-lust.'' Akhenaton's single-mindedness in his quest for his own brand of reason is a powerfully paradoxical distillation of the artistic temperament: originality, fertility and beauty set against death and despair and an inability to love.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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