Borges Language And Reality

Author : Alfonso J. García-Osuna
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319959122

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Borges, Language and Reality by Alfonso J. García-Osuna Pdf

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.

Author : Silvia G. Dapía
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317394839

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Jorge Luis Borges, Post-Analytic Philosophy, and Representation by Silvia G. Dapía Pdf

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.

Author : Malcolm Kevin Read
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029966218

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Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors, Or, Notes Towards a Materialist History of Linguistic Idealism by Malcolm Kevin Read Pdf

Read locates both the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Western ideas on language in their historical context. He reviews the theoretically diverse critical approaches to Borges's work, including both those that collude with the texts and others that are hostile to the Argentinian writer, and argues that all are inadequate for understanding Borges. He maintains that the modern subject is now characterized by narcissism associated with philosophical skepticism.

Author : Edna Aizenberg
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literature
ISBN : 082620712X

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Borges and His Successors by Edna Aizenberg Pdf

"In the first book devoted to the impact made by Borges on the contemporary aesthetic imagination, Aizenberg brings together specially commissioned essays from international scholars in a variety of disciplines to provide a wide-ranging assessment of Borges's influence on the fiction, literary theory, and arts of our time."--Publishers website.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Dutton Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,9 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.

Author : Malcolm Kevin Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 1469642751

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Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors by Malcolm Kevin Read Pdf

Read locates both the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Western ideas on language in their historical context. He reviews the theoretically diverse critical approaches to Borges's work, including both those that collude with the texts and others that are hostile to the Argentinian writer, and argues that all are inadequate for understanding Borges. He maintains that the modern subject is now characterized by narcissism associated with philosophical skepticism.

Author : William H. Bossart
Publisher : Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Edwin Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107728820

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The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by Edwin Williamson Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction in many other languages. However, Borges has been accessible in English only through a number of anthologies drawn mainly from his work of the 1940s and 1950s. The primary aim of this Companion is to provide a more comprehensive account of Borges's oeuvre and the evolution of his writing. It offers critical assessments by leading scholars of the poetry of his youth and the later poetry and fiction, as well as of the 'canonical' volumes of the middle years. Other chapters focus on key themes and interests, and on his influence in literary theory and translation studies.

Author : Ion Tudor Agheana
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025570513

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The Meaning of Experience in the Prose of Jorge Luis Borges by Ion Tudor Agheana Pdf

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 : Alfonso de Toro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132424495

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Jorge Luis Borges by Alfonso de Toro Pdf

Author : Gene H. Bell-Villada
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292782938

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Borges and His Fiction by Gene H. Bell-Villada Pdf

The acclaimed author of García Márquez delivers “a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy” (New York Daily News). Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene H. Bell-Villada has significantly revised and expanded the book to incorporate new information that has become available since Borges’ death in 1986. In particular, he offers a more complete look at Borges and Peronism and Borges’ personal experiences of love and mysticism, as well as revised interpretations of some of Borges’ stories. As before, the book is divided into three sections that examine Borges’ life, his stories in Ficciones and El Aleph, and his place in world literature. “Of the scores of Borges studies by now published in English, Bell-Villada’s excellent book stands out as one of the freshest and most generally helpful . . . Lay readers and specialists alike will find his book a valuable and highly readable companion to Ficciones and El Aleph.” —Choice

Author : Beatriz Sarlo
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781844675883

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Jorge Luis Borges by Beatriz Sarlo Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the twentieth century’s most significant writers. Yet in all the critical debates on his work, the fact that he is Argentinian is rarely discussed, as if his international reputation had somehow cleansed him of nationality. In this brilliant introduction to his work, Sarlo challenges these “universalist” readings, arguing that they leave aside vital aspects of Borges’ writing, including his powerful vision of Argentina’s past and its traditions, which placed both the writer and his country at the intersection of European and Latin American culture.

Author : Daniel Balderston
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813939650

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How Borges Wrote by Daniel Balderston Pdf

A distinguished poet and essayist and one of the finest writers of short stories in world letters, Jorge Luis Borges deliberately and regularly altered his work by extensive revision. In this volume, renowned Borges scholar Daniel Balderston undertakes to piece together Borges's creative process through the marks he left on paper. Balderston has consulted over 170 manuscripts and primary documents to reconstruct the creative process by which Borges arrived at his final published texts. How Borges Wrote is organized around the stages of his writing process, from notes on his reading and brainstorming sessions to his compositional notebooks, revisions to various drafts, and even corrections in already-published works. The book includes hundreds of reproductions of Borges’s manuscripts, allowing the reader to see clearly how he revised and "thought" on paper. The manuscripts studied include many of Borges’s most celebrated stories and essays--"The Aleph," "Kafka and His Precursors," "The Cult of the Phoenix," "The Garden of Forking Paths," "Emma Zunz," and many others--as well as lesser known but important works such as his 1930 biography of the poet Evaristo Carriego. As the first and only attempt at a systematic and comprehensive study of the trajectory of Borges's creative process, this will become a definitive work for all scholars who wish to trace how Borges wrote.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811200124

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Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

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

Author : Silvia G. Dapía
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317394822

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Jorge Luis Borges, Post-Analytic Philosophy, and Representation by Silvia G. Dapía Pdf

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.