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ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : es
Pages : 558
Book Description
Variaciones Borges
Author: Variaciones Borges
Author: Borges' Short Stories
Author: Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826442986
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
A Readers Guide to ten of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' best-known and most widely studied short stories.
Jorge Luis Borges, Post-Analytic Philosophy, and Representation
Author: Silvia G. DapíaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317394828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Making an important contribution to studies in Literature and Philosophy, this book reads Jorge Luis Borges philosophically, particularly in reference to his use of representation and reality. Rather than attempting to subordinate Borges to a set of philosophical constructs, to reduce Borges’ texts to mere exemplifications or illustrations of philosophical theories, the book uses Borges’s short stories to demonstrate how philosophical questions related to representation develop out of literature and actually serve as precursors to the various strains of post-analytic philosophy that later developed in the United States. The volume discusses American post-analytic philosophers Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Donald Davidson, Nelson Goodman, and Arthur Danto, as well as a wide-ranging set of philosophical ideas including reflections on Keynes, Hayek, Schopenhauer and many others . Chapters offer detailed readings of Borges’ texts extending from 1939 to 1983, locating where he thematizes issues of representation, and pursuing the logic of Borges’s text toward its philosophical implications without neglecting their literary value. The book argues that Borges’ exploration of the relationship between representation and reality places him unmistakably in the position of a precursor to the post-analytic philosophers. Illuminating the role that language plays in the creation of reality and representation, this volume makes significant contributions not only to Borges scholarship but also post-structuralism, post-analytic studies of language, semiotics, comparative literature, and Latin American literature.
Variaciones Borges
Author: University of Pittsburgh. Borges centerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : un
Pages : 258
Book Description
Postcolonial Borges
Author: Robin W. FiddianPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198794711
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Postcolonial Borges is the first systematic account of geo-political and postcolonial themes in the writings of Borges, from the poetry and essays of the 1920s to his later works and collections. This book shows how Borges's political and artistic temperament mark him out as a postcolonial intellectual and creative writer who is sui generis.
Borges, Desire, and Sex
Author: Ariel de la FuentePublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786949504
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Until now Jorge Luis Borges has been considered an asexual author who could not read or write about sex, but in this study historian Ariel de la Fuente reveals for the first time the relationship between Borges’s sexual biography, his erotic readings, and the expression of desire and sex in his literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges
Author: Edwin WilliamsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521193397
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A comprehensive account of Borges's life and work, including his early and late poetry, and his hugely influential short stories.
The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges
Author: Oxford HandbooksPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197535275
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
"The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges consists of thirty-five chapters, organized into four main categories: Borges's life, his representative work traced across the many decades of his writing, his work in collaboration, and his reception in literature and other disciplines. The volume highlights current debates among Borges scholars as a way to reevaluate how the physical forms and sociopolitical contexts of Borges's writings both shaped and determined specific readerships around the world. Alongside these novel approaches to Borges's fictions and nonfictions, this Handbook is the first of its kind to dedicate space to the reception of Borges's works in the fields of philosophy, the visual arts, film, political science, media theory, mathematics, and law. The collection also goes further to trace Borges's activity in the public sphere, including local and national politics and the functioning of cultural institutions. To date, no other collection devoted to his writings or life addresses these issues in depth, nor do they consider how his affiliations and interests change over the course of his long life. Incorporating these broader perspectives into this Handbook serves to bring out tensions, continuities, and discontinuities in Borges's work, allowing for a much more nuanced understanding of it. Jorge Luis Borges, literary studies, literary history, reception, Argentine literature, Latin American literature"--
Borges, Language and Reality
Author: Alfonso J. García-OsunaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319959123
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
This book brings together the work of several scholars to shed light on the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges' complex relationship with language and reality. A critical assumption driving the work is that there is, as Jaime Alazraki has put it, 'a genuine effort to overcome the narrowness that Western tradition has imposed as a master and measure of reality' in Borges' writing. That narrowness is in large measure a consequence of the chronic influence of positivist approaches to reality that rely on empirical evidence for any authentication of what is 'real'. This study shows that, in opposition to such restrictions, Borges saw in fiction, in literature, the most viable means of discussing reality in a pragmatic manner. Moreover, by scrutinising several of the author's works, it establishes signposts for considering the truly complicated relationship that Borges had with reality, one that intimately associates the 'real' with human perception, insight and language.