Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of a parallel oral tradition, focusing in particular on the corpus of Demotic narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period.
Jacqueline E. Jay, Ph.D. (2008, University of Chicago), is Associate Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University. In addition to her work on ancient Egyptian literature, her current research projects focus on the publication of Demotic ostraca and graffiti.