A world of possibilities: some aspects of humor and irony in the narrative prose of Jorge Luis Borges PDF Download

Author: Carol Ardelle George Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268

View

Book Description

Author: René de Costa
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328880
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 164

View

Book Description
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), an Argentine writer of serious avant-garde poetry and prose, often wrote of the humor in the works of contemporaneous authors such as Franz Kafka. In response to this humor, Borges created a comedic tradition all his own. Humor in Borges studies the humor embedded in the fiction of a serious and metaphysical literary figure. Ren? de Costa shows how Borges was concerned with making the embedded humor in his work more apparent without abandoning the essential story line. De Costa examines the ways in which Borges transformed established modes of writing-the chronicle, the book review, the obituary, the detective story-into genre parodies. He looks at Borges's canonical collections, identifying the humor in such simple things as a footnote, a false epigraph, or a postscript. Humor in Borges couples elegant scholarship with a comedic edge and is both accessible and enjoyable to read. Scholars and students of twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature will delight in this fascinating look at laughter in the work of Jorge Luis Borges.

Author: Ion Tudor Agheana
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

View

Book Description
The absence of metonymical emphasis in Borges' prose, of the «realism» promoted by XIXth-century writers, and the vaguely nihilistic tenor of XXth-century philosophy, have contributed to the opinion that the Borgesian character is, at best, a spectral presence. To negate the individual, however, is to negate the vital experience that gives him identity, and Borges, arguably, does not deny human experience. The Borgesian protagonist is not really incomplete, only projected and perceived incompletely. Lived experience informs Borges' prose fiction, and is indeed central to his critical readings of the great masters. Even the readers's own visual experience--particularly chromatic perception--is subtly alerted and drawn into some of Borges' prose writings.

Author: Louis Andrew Murillo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 394

View

Book Description

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674008200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161

View

Book Description
Transcribed from recently discovered tapes, this work stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony to the life of literature. 1 halftone.

Author: L. A. Murillo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674428966
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289

View

Book Description

Author: Agnieszka Gajewska
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000508625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

View

Book Description
This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanisław Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies. The author painstakingly recreates the context of Lem’s early life and his traumatic experiences during the Second World War due to his Jewish background, and then traces these through original and brilliant readings of his fiction and non-fiction. She considers language, worldbuilding, themes, motifs and characterization as well as many buried allusions to the Holocaust in Lem’s published and archival work, and uses these fragments to capture a different side of Lem than previously known. The book discusses various issues concerning the writer’s life, such as his upbringing in a Jewish, Zionist-minded family, the extensive relations between the Lem family and the elite of Lviv at that time, details of the Lem family killed during the German occupation and attempts to reconstruct what happened to Lem’s parents and to the writer himself after escaping the ghetto. Part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, this English translation of the Polish original, which has already been considered a milestone in Lem studies, offers a fresh perspective on the writer and his work. It will be an important intervention for scholars and researchers of Jewish studies, Holocaust literature, science fiction studies, English literature, world war studies, minority studies, popular culture, history and cultural studies.

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

View

Book Description
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184

View

Book Description
In 1971 Borges was invited to talk about his writing to students enrolled in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. This book is based on tape-recorded transcripts of these informal discussions between Borges, translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni, Frank MacShane, head of the creative writing department at Columbia, and the students. The three seminars deal with prose, poetry, and translation. In each Borges, in discussing his methods, refers to specific examples in his writing -- the use of local color and irony in his prose, autobiographical details in his poetry, testing and experiment in translation. The result is a rare and fruitful glimpse at how today's supreme verbal craftsman solves the age-old problems of the writer. -- From publisher's description.

Author:
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344

View

Book Description
Product information not available.