Borges Between Singularity and Sovereignty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenckes, Kate.

Series:

SUNY Series, Literature... in Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Politics in literature.

Sovereignty in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

A fresh look at how Borges's most celebrated stories critique various forms of sovereignty, from philosophical ideals of mastery to historical instances of fascism.Jorge Luis Borges was one of the principal writers of the twentieth century to bring literature to bear on the relationship between the political and the philosophical.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Reading After Borges

Chapter 1: World (as) War: "The Maker," "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," "Deutsches Requiem," "The Garden of Forking Paths"

Appearance of Order

Irrevocable Determination, Varied Futures

Chapter 2: Walls, Towers, Books: Borges with Kafka, "The Wall and the Books," "Kafka and His Precursors," "On Exactitude in Science"

Limited and Lacunary

Systems of Shadows

Unstable as the Dust

Chapter 3: Incalculable Alliances: "The Library of Babel," "The Lottery in Babylon," "On the Cult of Books," "A Defense of the Kabbalah," "Ramon Llull's Thinking Machine," "The Total Library"

The World as Book Motif

Weaving Through Hexagons and Circles

Masters of the Babelic Universe

Institutional Inquisitions

The Heresy of Possibility

Phantasmatic Order and the Scribbling of Survival

Melancholy Method

Interpolations of Chance

Chapter 4: Homo Domesticus: "The South," "Man on the Threshold"

On the Thresholds of Primal Phantasms

Guarding the House of Judgment

Chapter 5: Pyramids and Prophecies: "Funes the Memorious," "A History of Eternity," "The Doctrine of Cycles"

Origin Stories

Infallible Perception

Rocked and Negated

Bronze Monument

Chapter 6: Unearthing the Archive: "The Aleph," "The Zahir"

Nutshell Sovereignty

A World in the Basement

Literary Extractivism

Inalienable Aleph

Seeing and Being

Unearthing the Archive

Hospitable Returns

Falsifying and Losing

Chapter 7: Throwing the Race: "Avatars of the Tortoise, "The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise," "The Nothingness of Personality," "Death and the Compass"

Pursuing the Jewel of Conceptual Capture

The Race of Life

Infinite Dissymmetry

In-conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0701-1

979-88-558-0542-0

OCLC:

1567927628