Macedonio Fernández Between Literature Philosophy And The Avant Garde

Author : Federico Fridman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501384240

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Macedonio Fernández: Between Literature, Philosophy, and the Avant-Garde by Federico Fridman Pdf

At Macedonio Fernández's funeral in 1952, Jorge Luis Borges delivered the following elegy: “In those years I imitated him to the point of transcription, to the point of devout and passionate plagiarism. I felt: Macedonio is metaphysics, Macedonio is literature.” This is the first book available in English that collects essays by the world's leading scholars on Macedonio Fernández, one of Borges's most important mentors and a still enigmatic thinker of the early 20th century. Macedonio's philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and experimental writing laid the foundations for Borges's own theoretical and literary matrix. Nonetheless, Borges helped shape a myth of Macedonio as a thinker who could not translate his oratorial geniality into written intelligibility. So, despite the centrality of Macedonio to Borges's thought, his work has remained almost unknown to English-speaking readers. Contributors to this volume demonstrate, however, that this myth reduces the complexities of Macedonio's life and creative process, as each chapter shines new light on his texts. Conceived as both a companion for new readers of Macedonio's writings and an invitation for specialists to revisit his work through new perspectives, essays in this volume provide extensive background and bibliographical references, as well as English translations of Macedonio's original texts. This collection seeks to serve as a catalyst for the continued discovery and rediscovery of Macedonio Fernández's texts and the ways they might help us to rediscover the singularities of our own present moment.

Author : Todd S. Garth
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0838756158

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The Self of the City by Todd S. Garth Pdf

"The Self of the City shows Macedonio's work to be a highly systematic effort to "save the city" from the ills of modernity. Responding directly to the context of early twentieth-century Buenos Aires, Macedonio rejects modern culture as inherently paradoxical and pernicious, hinging on the unsustainable fallacy of Descartes' autonomous self."

Author : Hugo Moreno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793639295

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Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato by Hugo Moreno Pdf

In Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato, Hugo Moreno argues that in Ficciones, Claros del bosque, and El mono gramático, Jorge Luis Borges, María Zambrano, and Octavio Paz practice a literary way of philosophizing—a way of seeking and communicating knowledge of reality that takes up analogical procedures. They deploy analogy as an indispensable and irreplaceable heuristic tool and literary device to convey their insight and perplexities on the nature of existence. Borges’ ironic approach involves reading and writing philosophy as fiction. Zambrano’s poetic reason is a mode of writing and thinking based on an imaginative sort of recollection that is ultimately a visionary’s poetizing technique. Paz’s poetic thinking relies on analogy to correlate and harmonize an array of worldviews, ideas, and discourses. In the appendix, Moreno shows that Plato's Republic is a forerunner of this way of philosophizing in literature. Moreno suggests that in the Republic, Plato reconciles philosophy and poetry and creates a rational prose poetry that fuses argumentation and narration, dialectical and analogical reasoning, and abstract concepts and poetic images.

Author : Verity Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2060 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135314248

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature by Verity Smith Pdf

A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book

Author : Verity Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1781 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135314255

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature by Verity Smith Pdf

A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book

Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195131505

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Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism by John Carlos Rowe Pdf

John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.

Author : David Livingstone
Publisher : David Livingstone
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781481226509

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Black Terror White Soldiers by David Livingstone Pdf

Far too ignorant of the histories of the rest of the world, being aware of only the accomplishments of Greece, Rome and Europe, Westerners have been made to believe that their societies represent the most superior examples of civilization. However, the Western value system stems from a misconception that, as in nature, human society too is evolving. The idea derives from the hidden influence of secret societies, who followed the belief in spiritual evolution of the Kabbalah, which taught that history would attain its fulfillment when man would become God, and make his own laws. Therefore, the infamous Illuminati gave its name to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, which claimed that human progress must abandon "superstition," meaning Christianity, in favor of "reason." Thus the Illuminati succeeded in bringing about the French and American revolutions, which instituted the separation of Church and State, and from that point forward, the Western values of Humanism, seen to include secularism, human rights, democracy and capitalism, have been celebrated as the culmination of centuries of human intellectual evolution. This is the basis of the propaganda which has been used to foster a Clash of Civilizations, where the Islamic world is presented as stubbornly adhering to the anachronistic idea of "theocracy." Where once the spread of Christianity and civilizing the world were used as pretexts for colonization, today a new White Man's Burden makes use of human rights and democracy to justify imperial aggression. However, because, after centuries of decline, the Islamic world is incapable of mobilizing a defense, the Western powers, as part of their age-old strategy of Divide and Conquer, have fostered the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, to both serve as agent-provocateurs and to malign the image of Islam. These sects, known to scholars as Revivalists, opposed the traditions of classical Islamic scholarship in order to create the opportunity to rewrite the laws of the religion to better serve their sponsors. Thus were created the Wahhabi and Salafi sects of Islam, from which were derived the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been in the service of the West ever since. But, the story of the development of these Islamic sects involves the bizarre doctrines and hidden networks of occult secret societies, being based on a Rosicrucian myth of Egyptian Freemasonry, which see the Muslim radicals as inheritors of an ancient mystery tradition of the Middle East which was passed on to the Knights Templar during the Crusades, thus forming the foundation of the legends of the Holy Grail. These beliefs would not only form the cause for the association of Western intelligence agencies with Islamic fundamentalists, but would fundamentally shape much of twentieth century history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Arts
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018615553

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Latin American Literature and Art Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015002915313

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Critical Survey of Literary Theory by Frank Northen Magill Pdf

Provides historical coverage, including figures who were crucial to the development of literature as well as those who passed judgement on it from antiquity to the present day. Arrangement is consistent with earlier volumes in the Critical Survey series. In addition, volume four contains 12 omnibus

Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015019808610

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Critical Survey of Literary Theory: Authors, A-Sw by Frank Northen Magill Pdf

Author : Thomas Votteler
Publisher : Short Story Criticism
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810325535

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Short Story Criticism by Thomas Votteler Pdf

Presents literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015004873918

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Borges at Eighty by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015050777112

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Before the Boom by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez Pdf

In the early twentieth century, a technological revolution as well as new ideas in science and philosophy, precipitated a radical change in narrative fiction in Latin America. The avant garde novels that appeared by the 1920s forever changed discourse and structure, or the way of creating narrative fiction, and heavily influenced the creation of the internationally recognized Latin American novel of the modern era. However, this early movement has received little attention or recognition as a literary period, although it is as significant to the development of twentieth century literature as the Modernist movement was in the U.S. and Europe. Before the Boom: Latin American Revolutionary Novels of the 1920s proposes a postmodern analysis of the early twentieth century or avant-garde novel by authors from four different Latin American countries: Arqueles Vela in Mexico, Mart n Ad n in Peru, Pablo Palacio in Ecuador, and Roberto Arlt in Argentina. Each chapter details the socio-political context of each novel, chronicling the events that led to an artistic desire to create an entirely new voice in Latin American fiction.

Author : Carlos A. Solé,Maria Isabel Abreu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Authors, Latin American
ISBN : UOM:39015014766391

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Latin American Writers by Carlos A. Solé,Maria Isabel Abreu Pdf

Discusses writers of the New World and provides a critial analyses of today's outstanding writers.

Author : Harold Wallace Ross,Katharine Sergeant Angell White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982-05-24
Category : Literature
ISBN : NWU:35556026832147

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The New Yorker by Harold Wallace Ross,Katharine Sergeant Angell White Pdf