| Description |
xi, 296 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Edna Aizenberg -- I. Redefining national literatures On the diverse (South American) intonation of some (universal) metaphors / Ana María Barrenechea Borges and contemporary Argentine writers : continuity and change / Marta Morello-Frosch "It cannot not be there" : Borges and Australia's Peter Carey / Robert Ross Borges in Germany : a difficult and contradictory fascination / Rafael Gutiérrez Girardot The third tiger, or, from Blanchot to Borges / Françoise Collin -- II. A new critical idiom Borges's modernism and the new critical idiom / Jaime Alazraki The library is on fire : intertextuality in Borges and Foucault / Gerry O'Sullivan Borges and Emir : the writer and his reader / Suzanne Jill Levine Borges and Derrida : apothecaries / Emir Rodríquez Monegal Borges, De Man, and the deconstruction of reading / Herman Rapaport The mirror and the encyclopedia : Borgesian codes in Umberto Eco's The name of the rose / Christine de Lailhacar -- III. In dialogue with other writers The last fictions : Calvino's Borgesian odysseys / Jerry Varsava Postmodern precursor : the Borgesian image in innovative American fiction / Geoffrey Green Salvador Elizondo and Severo Sarduy : two Borgesian writers / Malva E. Filer -- IV. The visual arts Borges and the new Latin American cinema / Richard Peña Dream of a Golem / Jules Kirschenbaum -- V. Hebraism and poetic influence Borges and the Hebraism of contemporary literary theory / Edna Aizenberg Introduction to two lectures by Borges / Edna Aizenberg The book of Job / Jorge Luis Borges Baruch Spinoza / Jorge Luis Borges |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Influence.
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Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
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| SUBJECT |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007035 -- Influence.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002005444
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| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Aizenberg, Edna.
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| LC no. |
89004858 |
| ISBN |
082620712X (alk. paper) |
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