Borges, between history and eternity / Hernan Diaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Díaz, Hernán, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

[London : Continuum, 2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"That Borges is one of the key figures in twentieth-century literature is beyond debate. The reasons behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned literary hierarchies, and redefined the role of marginal literatures. On the other hand, in the rest of the world, most readers (and dictionaries) tend to identify the adjective Borgesian with intricate metaphysical puzzles and labyrinthine speculations of universal reach, completely detached from particular traditions. One reading is context-saturated, while the other is context-deprived. Oddly enough, these institutional and transcendental approaches have not been pitched against each other in a critical way. Borges, between History and Eternity brings these perspectives together by considering key aspects of Borges's work--the reciprocal determinations of politics, philosophy and literature; the simultaneously confining and emancipating nature of language; and the incipient program for a literature of the Americas."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Preface : South, north, beyond

Part 1. Political Theology. Introduction ; Chapter 1. God and country ; Chapter 2. When fiction lives in fiction

Part 2. The United States of America. Introduction ; Chapter 1. Edgar Allan Poe (on murder considered as metaphysics) ; Chapter 2. Walt Whitman, an American, a kosmos

Afterword / El vaivén

Note on the translations

Abbreviations of Borges's Titles

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472543004

1472543009

9781283891233

1283891239

9781441169099

1441169091

OCLC:

819339287