Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry

Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry PDF Author: Selena Wisnom
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004412972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Book Description
In Weapons of Words Selena Wisnom offers a literary study of three poems central to Babylonian culture: Anzû, Enūma eliš, and Erra and Išum, demonstrating how each uses sophisticated intertextual allusions to compete with its predecessors.