Borges And His Fiction

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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

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gene H. Bell-Villada
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Release : 2000-02-01
File : 486 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780292791961


Borges And The Kabbalah

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This volume brings together a collection of essays on Borges by leading scholar Jaime Alazraki. Together the essays constitute an introduction to important aspects of Borges' oeuvre, including the influence of the Kabbalah, structure and style in the fiction, Borges' poetry, and Borges' impact on Latin American literature.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Jaime Alazraki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 1988-08-26
File : 222 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780521306843


Borges Short Stories

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A Readers Guide to ten of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' best-known and most widely studied short stories.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
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Publisher : A&C Black
Release : 2010-03-25
File : 151 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780826442987


Borges And His Successors

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"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.

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Genre : Literature
Author : Edna Aizenberg
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Release : 1990
File : 324 Pages
ISBN-13 : 082620712X


The Oxford Handbook Of The Latin American Novel

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The Latin American novel burst onto the international literary scene with the Boom era--led by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa--and has influenced writers throughout the world ever since. García Márquez and Vargas Llosa each received the Nobel Prize in literature, and many of the best-known contemporary novelists are inspired by the region's fiction. Indeed, magical realism, the style associated with García Márquez, has left a profound imprint on African American, African, Asian, Anglophone Caribbean, and Latinx writers. Furthermore, post-Boom literature continues to garner interest, from the novels of Roberto Bolaño to the works of César Aira and Chico Buarque, to those of younger novelists such as Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Alejandro Zambra, and Valeria Luiselli. Yet, for many readers, the Latin American novel is often read in a piecemeal manner delinked from the traditions, authors, and social contexts that help explain its evolution. The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel draws literary, historical, and social connections so that readers will come away understanding this literature as a rich and compelling canon. In forty-five chapters by leading and innovative scholars, the Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction, helping readers to see the region's intrinsic heterogeneity--for only with a broader view can one fully appreciate García Márquez or Bolaño. This volume charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Furthermore, the Handbook explores the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel's position in world literature.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Juan E. De Castro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2023-03-07
File : 889 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780197541852


Borges And Kafka

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Sarah Roger investigates Jorge Luis Borges's development as an author in light of Franz Kafka's influence, and in consideration of Borges's relationship with his father, a failed author. She explores how reading Kafka helped Borges mediate and make productive use of his own relationship with his father.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Sarah Rachelle Roger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2017
File : 195 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780198746157


Borges The Unacknowledged Medievalist

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The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : M. Toswell
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2014-11-07
File : 190 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781137444479


A Study Guide For Jorge Luis Borges S The Garden Of Forking Paths

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
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File : 29 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781410346612


Rethinking Philosophy With Borges Zambrano Paz And Plato

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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.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Hugo Moreno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release : 2022-02-16
File : 241 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781793639295


The Aesthetics Of International Law

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In The Aesthetics of International Law, Ed Morgan engages in a literary parsing of international legal texts. In order to demonstrate how these types of legal narratives are imbued with modernist aesthetics, Morgan juxtaposes international legal documents and modern (as well as some immediately pre- and post-modern) literary texts.

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Genre : Law
Author : Edward M. Morgan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release : 2007-01-01
File : 289 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780802092519