Professor Borges A Course On English Literature

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811221177

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Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings’ kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the book traverses a landscape of ‘precursors,’cross-cultural borrowings, and genres of expression, all connected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of Borges’s works to have appeared posthumously.” Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges’s lectures — delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition — bring the canon to remarkably vivid life. Now translated into English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Martín Arias and Martín Hadis.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674008205

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This Craft of Verse by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

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 : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140286809

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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume “An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books. Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borges’s magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master’s work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Argentine poetry
ISBN : 0140180311

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Selected Poems, 1923-1967 by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

A selection of poems by the Argentinian writer, Jorge Luis Borges from the period of 1923-1967.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780811218757

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Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811231282

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Everything and Nothing (New Directions Pearls) by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays. Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as “scalp-crinkling . . . Borges’ work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.”

Author : Robert Zend
Publisher : Exile
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039772277

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Oāb by Robert Zend Pdf

Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191614293

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English Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate Pdf

Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader. The narrative embraces not only the major literary movements such as Romanticism and Modernism, together with the most influential authors including Chaucer, Donne, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens and Woolf, but also little-known stories such as the identity of the first English woman poet to be honoured with a collected edition of her works. Written with the flair and passion for which Jonathan Bate has become renowned, this book is the perfect Very Short Introduction for all readers and students of the incomparable literary heritage of these islands. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Patty Yumi Cottrell
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944211318

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Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell Pdf

Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She’s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen’s adoptive brother is dead. According to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a one-way ticket to Milwaukee. There, as she searches her childhood home and attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die, she will face her estranged family, her brother’s few friends, and the overzealous grief counselor, Chad Lambo; she may also discover what it truly means to be alive. A bleakly comic tour de force that’s by turns poignant, uproariously funny, and viscerally unsettling, this debut novel has shades of Bernhard, Beckett and Bowles—and it announces the singular voice of Patty Yumi Cottrell.

Author : Paul H. Fry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300183368

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Theory of Literature by Paul H. Fry Pdf

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them the hermeneutic circle, New Criticism, structuralism, linguistics and literature, Freud and fiction, Jacques Lacan's theories, the postmodern psyche, the political unconscious, New Historicism, the classical feminist tradition, African American criticism, queer theory, and gender performativity. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature.

Author : Donis Casey
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458711229

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The Drop Edge of Yonder by Donis Casey Pdf

Who killed Uncle Bill? Alafair W Tucker is desperate to find out. One August evening in 1914, a bushwhacker ended a pleasant outing by blowing a hole in Bill McBride, kidnapping and ravaging Bill's fiance, and wounding Alafair's daughter Mary. Does Mary know who did the low-down deed? If she does, the bullet that grazed her knocked that information right out of her head. All she remembers is that it has something to do with the Fourth of July. Or is there more? The answer seems to be floating piece by tiny piece to the surface of Mary's consciousness. Several malicious acts testify to the fact that Bill's killer is still around and attempting to cover his tracks. The question is, can Mary remember before the murderer manages to eliminate everyone who could identify him? The law is hot on the bushwhacker's trail. Alafair thinks there is little she can do to help the sheriff, but that will never stop her from trying. She has no qualms about driving Mary to distraction with her persistent snooping and constant hovering. If there's a chance she can protect Mary from further harm or help her remember, she'll do anything she can. Even confront a vicious killer.

Author : Beatriz Sarlo,Beatriz Sarlo Sabajanes
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0860916359

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Jorge Luis Borges by Beatriz Sarlo,Beatriz Sarlo Sabajanes Pdf

Sarlo explores Argentine nuances and traditions through brilliant close readings of specific stories. She shows how even Borges's most fantastic tales deal with philosophical and moral problems concerning the fate of individual men and women and their relationships to wider society.

Author : P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Random House
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448164769

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The World of Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse Pdf

'P. G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century' Sebastian Faulks 'Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny' Arabella Weir Welcome to Blandings Castle - where there's always something going on and a rollicking good time to be had. In this collection of assorted stories, dive into the wonderful world of Wodehouse where a comedy of errors awaits at every turn. Meet the regulars at Blandings: the engagingly dotty Lord Emsworth, his terrifying sister Lady Constance and his secretary the Efficient Baxter, whose attempts to bring order to the castle always end in disarray. And revel in the hijinks galore that come with the addition of lovestruck young men, headstrong young women, iron-willed aunts and imposters roaming the grounds - not to mention the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's prized pig.