Borges's Poe The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America / Emron Esplin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esplin, Emron.

Series:

New southern studies.

The New Southern Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Appreciation--Latin America.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Influence.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation--History--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edgar Allan Poe?s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the R?o de la Plata region of South America·Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cort?zar. In<i> Borges?s Poe</i>, Emron Esplin focuses on the second author in this trio and argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe?s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe?s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.<BR><BR>Most scholarship th

Contents:

Introduction: reciprocal influence

Renaming Poe: Jorge Luis Borges's literary criticism on Edgar Allan Poe

Borges's philosophy of Poe's composition

Reading and rereading

Translating Poe: Jorge Luis Borges's Edgar Allan Poe translations

Theory, practice, and Pym

Facts and an envelope

Rewriting Poe: Jorge Luis Borges's Poe-influenced and Poe-influencing short fiction

Buried connections

Supernatural revenge

Epilogue: commemorative reframing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820349046

0820349046

OCLC:

946009043