Borges

Borges

An Introduction

Premat, Julio; Murphy, Amanda

Vanderbilt University Press

10/2021

160

Dura

Inglês

9780826502261

15 a 20 dias

333

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Introduction: A Classic of Modernity
Part I: A Plural I, a Single Gloom: Figures
Chapter 1: The Works of the Hero
Inventing Buenos Aires
Founding a Work
Writing in Other Ways
Finding Filiation
Youthful Mistakes
Chapter 2: The Son at Work
An Unexpected Encounter in the Stairway
The 1930s: The Black Box
Writing Don Quixote
A Position on Culture
A Narcissistic Utopia
The Years of Expansion
The Prestige of Melancholy
The Pleasures of Loss
Chapter 3: The Perspicacity of the Blindman
A New Learning Process
A Fertile Old Age
The Gifts of an Author
Being Homer
The Wise Man
A Cyclical Agony
The Immortal Dead Man
Part II: A Pensive Inclination: Materials
Chapter 4: Driven by His Germanic Blood: Biography and the Meaning of Story
Statistics and Destiny
Infamies
The Forms of a Life
Chapter 5: The Universe, Whodunit? Reading and the Detective Story
Meaning, This Elegant Hope
Imminent Revelation
A Performative Incredulity
Chapter 6: The Library: Tradition, Betrayal, Transgression
Narrative Syntax
The Argentine Writer and Tradition
A Universal Periphery
Chapter 7: Forms of Eternity
Bifurcations of Time
Literary History: Innovation and Anachronism
Literary History: Inventing One's Precursors
Social History: Barbarism
Social History: National Heroes
The Inevitable
Contemporary Literature; Latin American Literature; General Literature; Argentinian Literature; Philosophy; Fantastic literature; Literary Autofiction; Essays; Literary criticism; Literary biography; Modernity; Avant-garde; Literary canon; Classicism; Detective novel; History; Theology; Short stories; Literary history; Anachronism; Literary influence; Literary filiations; National Literatures; Temporal Imaginaries; Rewriting; Postmodernity; Reading; Hermeneutics; textual interpretation