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The Borges Enigma

Cynthia Lucy Stephens
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Author : Cynthia Lucy Stephens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781855663497

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Borges once stated that he had never created a character: 'It's always me, subtly disguised'. This book focuses on the ways in which Borges uses events and experiences from his own life, in order to demonstrate how they become the principal structuring motifs of his work. It aims to show how these experiences, despite being 'heavily disguised', are crucial components of some of Borges's most canonical short stories, particularly from the famous collections Ficciones and El Aleph. Exploring the rich tapestry of symmetries, doubles and allusions and the roles played by translation and the figure of the creator, the book provides new readings of these stories, revealing their hidden personal, emotional and spiritual dimensions. These insights shed fresh light on Borges's supreme literary craftsmanship and the intimate puzzles of his fictions.

Borges, Second Edition

Lisa Block de Behar
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Author : Lisa Block de Behar
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438450322

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Borges, Second Edition by Lisa Block de Behar Pdf

Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography. Borges cites innumerable authors in the pages making up his life’s work, and innumerable authors have cited and continue to cite him. More than a figure, then, the quotation is an integral part of the fabric of his writing, a fabric made anew by each reading and each re-citation it undergoes, in the never-ending throes of a work-in-progress. Block de Behar makes of this reading a plea for the very art of communication; a practice that takes community not in the totalized and totalizable soil of pre-established definitions or essences, but on the ineluctable repetitions that constitute language as such, and that guarantee the expansiveness—through etymological coincidences of meaning, through historical contagions, through translinguistic sharings of particular experiences—of a certain index of universality. This edition includes a new introduction by the author and three entirely new chapters, as well as updated images and corrections to the original translation. Lisa Block de Behar is Professor of Communications at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay and is a renowned Jorge Luis Borges scholar. William Egginton is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of several books, including In Defense of Religious Moderation. Christopher RayAlexander is a graduate student and language instructor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University.

Signs of Borges

Sylvia Molloy
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Author : Sylvia Molloy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822314207

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Signs of Borges by Sylvia Molloy Pdf

Publisher description -- Borges's sustained practice of the uncanny gives rise in his texts to endless tensions between illusion and meaning, and to the competing desires for fragmentation, dispersal, and stability. Molloy traces the movement of Borges's own writing by repeatedly spanning the boundaries of genre and cutting across the conventional separations of narrative, lyric and essay, fact and fiction. Rather than seeking to resolve the tensions and conflicts, she preserves and develops them, thereby maintaining the potential of these texts to disturb. At the site of these tensions, Molloy locates the play between meaning and meaningless that occurs in Borges's texts. From this vantage point his strategies of deception, recourse to simulacra, inquisitorial urge to unsettle binarism, and distrust of the permanent--all that makes Borges Borges--are examined with unmatched skill and acuity.

Borges and Dante

Humberto Núñez-Faraco
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Author : Humberto Núñez-Faraco
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039105116

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Borges and Dante by Humberto Núñez-Faraco Pdf

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctorate--University College, London, 2001).

Borges and His Fiction

Gene H. Bell-Villada
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Author : Gene H. Bell-Villada
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292708785

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

From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest...writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciation of Borges himself and a pleasant disregard for the critical clichés, Bell-Villada tells us all we really want to know about the modern master-from pronouncing his name to understanding the stories." —New York Daily News "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 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.

Borges and Translation

Sergio Gabriel Waisman
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Author : Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0838755925

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Borges and Translation by Sergio Gabriel Waisman Pdf

This book studies how Borges constructs a theory of translation that plays a fundamental role in the development of Argentine literature, and which, in turn, expands the potential for writers in Latin America to create new and innovative literatures through processes of re-reading, rewriting, and mis-translation. The book analyzes Borges's texts in both an Argentine and a transnational context, thus incorporating Borges's ideas into contemporary debates about translation and its relationship to language and aesthetics, Latin American culture and identity, tradition and originality, and center-periphery dichotomies. Furthermore, a central objective of this book is to show that the study of the importance of translation in Borges and of the importance of Borges for translation studies need not be separated. Furthermore, translation studies has much to gain by the inclusion of Latin American thinkers such as Borges, while literary studies has much to gain by in-depth considerations of the role of translation in Latin American literatures. Sergio Waisman is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at The George Washington University.

The Enigma of Reason

Hugo Mercier,Dan Sperber
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Author : Hugo Mercier,Dan Sperber
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674368309

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The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier,Dan Sperber Pdf

“Brilliant...Timely and necessary.” —Financial Times “Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persist in holding beliefs that have been thoroughly discredited.” —Darren Frey, Science If reason is what makes us human, why do we behave so irrationally? And if it is so useful, why didn’t it evolve in other animals? This groundbreaking account of the evolution of reason by two renowned cognitive scientists seeks to solve this double enigma. Reason, they argue, helps us justify our beliefs, convince others, and evaluate arguments. It makes it easier to cooperate and communicate and to live together in groups. Provocative, entertaining, and undeniably relevant, The Enigma of Reason will make many reasonable people rethink their beliefs. “Reasonable-seeming people are often totally irrational. Rarely has this insight seemed more relevant...Still, an essential puzzle remains: How did we come to be this way?...Cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber [argue that] reason developed not to enable us to solve abstract, logical problems...[but] to resolve the problems posed by living in collaborative groups.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker “Turns reason’s weaknesses into strengths, arguing that its supposed flaws are actually design features that work remarkably well.” —Financial Times “The best thing I have read about human reasoning. It is extremely well written, interesting, and very enjoyable to read.” —Gilbert Harman, Princeton University

Enigmas and Riddles in Literature

Eleanor Cook
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Author : Eleanor Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521855105

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Enigmas and Riddles in Literature by Eleanor Cook Pdf

A wide-ranging and original study on how enigmas and riddles work in literature.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection at the University of Virginia Library

C. Jared Loewenstein
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection at the University of Virginia Library Book PDF

Author : C. Jared Loewenstein
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0813913330

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection at the University of Virginia Library by C. Jared Loewenstein Pdf

Nearly a decade in compilation, this catalogue is the most complete checklist to date of works by and about Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer Borges (1899-1988). The catalogue describes the holdings in the Borges collection at the U. of Virginia Library, the world's finest and most complete collection of works by and about Borges. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Noé Jitrik Reader

Noe Jitrik
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Author : Noe Jitrik
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822386636

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The Argentine scholar Noé Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first to make available in English a selection of his most influential writings. These sparkling translations of essays first published between 1969 and the late 1990s reveal the extraordinary scope of Jitrik’s work, his sharp insights into the interrelations between history and literature, and his keen awareness of the specificities of Latin American literature and its relationship to European writing. Together they signal the variety of critical approaches and vocabularies Jitrik has embraced over the course of his long career, including French structuralist thought, psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism. The Noé Jitrik Reader showcases Jitrik’s reflections on marginality and the canon, exile and return, lack and excess, autobiography, Argentine nationalism, the state of literary criticism, the avant-garde, and the so-called Boom in Latin American literature. Among the writers whose work he analyzes in the essays collected here are Jorge Luis Borges, Esteban Echeverría, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, José Martí, César Vallejo, José Bianco, Juan Carlos Onetti, José María Arguedas, Julio Cortázar, and Augusto Roa Bastos. The Noé Jitrik Reader offers English-language readers a unique opportunity to appreciate the rigor and thoughtfulness of one of Latin America’s most informed and persuasive literary critics.

The Poetic Avant-garde

Beret E. Strong
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Author : Beret E. Strong
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810115093

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The Poetic Avant-garde by Beret E. Strong Pdf

The Poetic Avant-Garde compares three avant-garde groups active in the era between the world wars: those surrounding Jorge Luis Borges, W.H. Auden, and Andre Breton. These groups were composed of poets and writers who made use of the avant-garde's characteristic modes of self-expression: the publication of small journals, unorthodox attention-getting tactics, and interaction with the mainstream press. However, their differing aesthetic, social, and political agendas illustrate the surprisingly broad range of avant-gardism in the interwar era. Strong looks at the choices these three groups made when their radical goals collided with the forces of social and political change in the 1920s and 1930s, highlighting the disparity between their rhetoric and their actual achievements. The book focuses on the avant-garde's struggle to reconcile contradictory imperatives: a desire to be radically new while also finding an audience.

The Mythmaker

Carter Wheelock
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Author : Carter Wheelock
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292727168

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The Mythmaker by Carter Wheelock Pdf

Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study reduces a number of literary and intellectual abstractions to concrete terms, enabling the reader to understand Borges’s fantasies in ways that show them to be not so fantastic after all. Indeed, they are amazingly consistent and minutely accurate in their symbolic depiction of the magic universe of the mind. Wheelock also discusses the affinity between Borges’s philosophical idealism and his “esthetic of the intelligence,” the relationship between these and the esthetic ideas of French Symbolism, and the influence on his fictions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Why is it that this “writer’s writer” from the Argentine—erudite, allusive, elusive—has attracted such international attention? In Wheelock’s opinion, it is because he has symbolized in his short stories the fundamental form of the human consciousness, the functioning of the imaginative (world-creating) mechanism, and the eternal battle between form and chaos. The Mythmaker is concerned with elucidating the particulars of Borges’s fictional works, but even as it does so it also reveals their universality.

Enigmas

Mario Perniola
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Author : Mario Perniola
Publisher : Verso
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-07-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 1859840612

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"What do we fear most? Repetition or difference? The return of a barbarism that is remote and prehistoric or the advent of a barbarism that is technological as post-human?"

Borges and Memory

Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
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Author : Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262549561

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Borges and Memory by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga Pdf

A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget. Imagine the astonishment felt by neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga when he found a fantastically precise interpretation of his research findings in a story written by the great Argentinian fabulist Jorge Luis Borges fifty years earlier. Quian Quiroga studies the workings of the brain—in particular how memory works—one of the most complex and elusive mysteries of science. He and his fellow neuroscientists have at their disposal sophisticated imaging equipment and access to information not available just twenty years ago. And yet Borges seemed to have imagined the gist of Quian Quiroga's discoveries decades before he made them. The title character of Borges's "Funes the Memorious" remembers everything in excruciatingly particular detail but is unable to grasp abstract ideas. Quian Quiroga found neurons in the human brain that respond to abstract concepts but ignore particular details, and, spurred by the way Borges imagined the consequences of remembering every detail but being incapable of abstraction, he began a search for the origins of Funes. Borges's widow, María Kodama, gave him access to her husband's personal library, and Borges's books led Quian Quiroga to reread earlier thinkers in philosophy and psychology. He found that just as Borges had perhaps dreamed the results of Quian Quiroga's discoveries, other thinkers—William James, Gustav Spiller, John Stuart Mill—had perhaps also dreamed a story like "Funes." With Borges and Memory, Quian Quiroga has given us a fascinating and accessible story about the workings of the brain that the great creator of Funes would appreciate.

TransLatin Joyce

B. Price,C. Salgado,J. Schwartz
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Author : B. Price,C. Salgado,J. Schwartz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137407467

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TransLatin Joyce by B. Price,C. Salgado,J. Schwartz Pdf

TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies, antimodernism, game theory, sound studies, deconstruction, and post-Euclidean physics.