Block de Behar Borges, Second Edition

The Passion of an Endless Quotation
2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5032-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Block de Behar, Lisa

Weitere Mitwirkende

RayAlexander, Christopher

Egginton, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author’s Introduction

Translator’s Introduction to the First Edition
William Egginton

1. First Words

2. Variations on a Letter avant-la-lettre

3. Paradoxa Ortodoxa

4.On “Ultrarealism”: Borges and Bioy Casares (The Interlacing of the Imagination and Memory on the Thresholds of Other Worlds)

5. Borges and García Márquez: On How to Put Life into Words, and How to Recount Them

6. A Complexly Woven Plot: Borges, Bioy Casares, Blanqui (Conjectures and Conjunctions at the Limits of Possible Worlds)

7. Theoretical Invention in Fiction: Marvels, Miracles, and the Gazes of Miranda

8. The Ironies of a Blind Seer

9. Symbols and the Search for Unity

10. The Paradoxes of Paradoxes

11. Vox in Deserto: Borges and the History of Sand

12. The Mystery of the Name

13. Repetitions Are No Surprise

14. The Imagination of Knowledge

15. The Place of the Library

16. The Fiction between Fraud and Farce: Parodies and Properties of the Name

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Block de Behar is Professor of Communications at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay and is a renowned Jorge Luis Borges scholar. William Egginton is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of several books, including In Defense of Religious Moderation. Christopher RayAlexander is a graduate student and language instructor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University.