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Borges' short stories : a reader's guide / Rex Butler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butler, Rex.
- Series:
- Continuum reader's guides.
- Continuum reader's guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short story.
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation.
- Borges, Jorge Luis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (150 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a Readers Guide to ten of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' best-known and most widely studied short stories. The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers and literary theorists. This clear and accessibly written guide offers a close reading of ten of Borges' greatest short stories, seeking to bring out the logic that has made his work so influential. The main section of the guide offers an analysis of such key terms in Borges' work
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Quotations and Abbreviations; 1. Contexts; 2. Reading the Short Stories: The Labyrinthine; 3. Reading the Short Stories: The Borgesian; 4. Reading the Short Stories: Infinity and One; 5. Reading the Short Stories: Fictions; 6. Reception and Influence; 7. Annotated Bibliography; Notes; Index of Concepts; Index of Names
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613271891
- 9781441122261
- 1441122265
- 9781283271899
- 1283271893
- 9781441144409
- 1441144404
- OCLC:
- 741691371
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