Borges Buddhism And World Literature

Author : Dominique Jullien
Publisher : Springer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030047177

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Borges, Buddhism and World Literature by Dominique Jullien Pdf

This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its cross-cultural adaptability and metamorphic nature, and because it resonated so powerfully across philosophy, politics and aesthetics. From the story and its many variants, Borges’s essays formulated a 'morphological' conception of literature (borrowing the idea from Goethe), whereby a potentially infinite number of stories were generated by transformation of a finite number of 'archetypes'. The king-and-ascetic encounter also tells a powerful political story, setting up a confrontation between power and authority; Borges’s own political predicament is explored against the rich background of truth-telling renouncers. In its poetic variant, the renunciation archetype morphs into stories about art and artists, with renunciation a key requirement of the creative process: the discussion weaves in and out of Borges to highlight modern writers’ debt to asceticism. Ultimately, the enigmatic appeal of the renunciation story aligns it with the open-endedness of modern parables.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0811218384

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Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1986-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018661109

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The Literary Universe of Jorge Luis Borges by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811209059

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Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges’ erudition on the following topics: Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.

Author : Robin Fiddian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108470440

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Jorge Luis Borges in Context by Robin Fiddian Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges's engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the Global South.

Author : Jane Hiddleston,Wen-chin Ouyang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501360114

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Multilingual Literature as World Literature by Jane Hiddleston,Wen-chin Ouyang Pdf

Multilingual Literature as World Literature examines and adjusts current theories and practices of world literature, particularly the conceptions of world, global and local, reflecting on the ways that multilingualism opens up the borders of language, nation and genre, and makes visible different modes of circulation across languages, nations, media and cultures. The contributors to Multilingual Literature as World Literature examine four major areas of critical research. First, by looking at how engaging with multilingualism as a mode of reading makes visible the multiple pathways of circulation, including as aesthetics or poetics emerging in the literary world when languages come into contact with each other. Second, by exploring how politics and ethics contribute to shaping multilingual texts at a particular time and place, with a focus on the local as a site for the interrogation of global concerns and a call for diversity. Third, by engaging with translation and untranslatability in order to consider the ways in which ideas and concepts elude capture in one language but must be read comparatively across multiple languages. And finally, by proposing a new vision for linguistic creativity beyond the binary structure of monolingualism versus multilingualism.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges,Osvaldo Ferrari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Authors, Argentine
ISBN : 0857421883

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Conversations by Jorge Luis Borges,Osvaldo Ferrari Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina s master fabulist, was also an extraordinary conversationalist. There s not a subject he doesn t throw surprising new light on, whether it s to do with Kipling or tango. In fact, there s an impish element in his thinking. In these dialogues with a receptive Osvaldo Ferrari, he covers Buddhism, love, Henry James, Dante and much more as he circles round and digresses at whim. One cannot be sure where the 84-year-old blind man s wit will lead him, except that it s his form of freedom. Even if he s covered the subject before, this time round there s a new flash of insight. He s an optimist. There s always more to say. As with his written work as a whole, these dialogues configure a loose autobiography of a subtle, teasing mind. Looking back on his long life, it s no surprise that time and dreaming become topics, but these dialogues are not a memoir for all time is now. As in his tale The Other, where two Borges meet up on a bench beside the river Charles, we have a dialogue between a young poet and the elder teller of tales where all experience floats in a frightening miracle that defies linear time."

Author : William H. Bossart
Publisher : Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015063300654

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Borges and Philosophy by William H. Bossart Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges is acknowledged as one of the great Spanish writers of the twentieth century. On the broader literary scene, he is recognized as a modern master. His fascination with philosophy - especially metaphysics - sets him apart from his contemporaries. Borges appreciated and formulated rigorous philosophical arguments, but also possessed the unique ability to present the most abstract ideas imaginatively in metaphors and symbols. Borges wandered among the great masters seeking a firm purchase that he could not find, and therefore expressed a nostalgia for metaphysics as he lost himself in his labyrinths. Borges and Philosophy traces Borges' philosophical concerns in his tales, essays, and poems and argues that despite his apparent skepticism in philosophical matters, a careful reading of Borges' texts reveals a coherent philosophical path that underlies his work.

Author : Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501351891

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Philosophy as World Literature by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Pdf

What does it mean to consider philosophy as a species of not just literature but world literature? The authors in this collection explore philosophy through the lens of the "worlding" of literature--that is, how philosophy is connected and reconnected through global literary networks that cross borders, mix stories, and speak in translation and dialect. Historically, much of the world's most influential philosophy, from Plato's dialogues and Augustine's confessions to Nietzsche's aphorisms and Sartre's plays, was a form of literature--as well as, by extension, a form of world literature. Philosophy as World Literature offers a variety of accounts of how the worlding of literature problematizes the national categorizing of philosophy and brings new meanings and challenges to the discussion of intersections between philosophy and literature.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges,Alicia Jurado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9500410516

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Qué es el budismo by Jorge Luis Borges,Alicia Jurado Pdf

Author : Pankaj Mishra
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781429933636

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An End to Suffering by Pankaj Mishra Pdf

An End to Suffering is a deeply original and provocative book about the Buddha's life and his influence throughout history, told in the form of the author's search to understand the Buddha's relevance in a world where class oppression and religious violence are rife, and where poverty and terrorism cast a long, constant shadow. Mishra describes his restless journeys into India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, among Islamists and the emerging Hindu middle class, looking for this most enigmatic of religious figures, exploring the myths and places of the Buddha's life, and discussing Western explorers' "discovery" of Buddhism in the nineteenth century. He also considers the impact of Buddhist ideas on such modern politicians as Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. As he reflects on his travels and on his own past, Mishra shows how the Buddha wrestled with problems of personal identity, alienation, and suffering in his own, no less bewildering, times. In the process Mishra discovers the living meaning of the Buddha's teaching, in the world and for himself. The result is the most three-dimensional, convincing book on the Buddha that we have.

Author : Robin Fiddian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108619660

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Jorge Luis Borges in Context by Robin Fiddian Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges's engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the Global South.

Author : Paulo Lemos Horta
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603295987

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Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights by Paulo Lemos Horta Pdf

The Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, is one of the world's most widely circulated and influential collections of stories. To help instructors introduce the tales to students, this volume provides historical context and discusses the many transformations of the stories in a variety of cultures. Among the topics covered are the numerous translations and their impact on the tales' reception; various genres represented by the tales; gender, race, and slavery; and adaptations of the stories in films, graphic novels, and other media across the world and under conditions of both imperialism and postcolonialism. The essays serve instructors in subjects such as medieval literature, world literature, and Middle and Near Eastern studies and make a case for teaching the Thousand and One Nights in courses on identity and race.

Author : Lucien Stryk
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802198259

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World of the Buddha by Lucien Stryk Pdf

Selections from the most significant texts in the body of Buddhist literature. For readers who want a deeper understanding of Buddhism, this is a rich, varied, and comprehensive collection in one volume. It includes the most significant texts from the vast body of Buddhist literature, and includes translations from Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Lao. For the benefit of the newcomer to Buddhism—or for those using it in an academic context—the pieces are arranged in chronological order, and each chapter is preceded by a separate commentary. In addition, there is a comprehensive description of life in India at the time of the Buddha and an outline of his life and mission. “The best available translations.” —Library Journal

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Dutton Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015035341034

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The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.