Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar / Nataly Tcherepashenets.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tcherepashenets, Nataly.

Contributor:

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures 0893-5963 ; v. 151.

Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures, 0893-5963 ; v. 151

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Cortázar, Julio--Criticism and interpretation.

Cortázar, Julio.

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Settings.

Cortázar, Julio--Settings.

Cortázar, Julio.

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.

Displacement (Psychology) in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvi, 204 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2008]

Contents:

Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation

Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph"

Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares"

The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco"

The infinite book : fear and longing

Place as displacement in Cortázar's Hopscotch

Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels

Borges's voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires

Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds

The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation

Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement"

Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences

The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia

Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar

Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion"

Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cortázar's "Malcolm"

Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays

Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sueño de Coleridge"

The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros"

Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China"

Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories

Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent

Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self

Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-197) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

0820463957

9780820463957

OCLC:

61512968