Borges, between History and Eternity

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Borges, between History and Eternity

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That Borges is one of the key figures in 20th-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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
South, North, Beyond

I. POLITICAL THEOLOGY

Introduction
1. God and Country

2. When Fiction Lives in Fiction

II. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Introduction
1. Edgar Allan Poe (On Murder Considered as Metaphysics)
2. Walt Whitman, an American, a Kosmos

Afterword
El vaivén

Note on the Translations
Abbreviation of Borges's Titles
Works Cited
Acknowledgements

Product details

Published Aug 02 2012
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 208
ISBN 9781441188113
Imprint Continuum
Dimensions 9 x 5 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Hernan Diaz

Hernan Diaz is Managing Editor of Revista Hispánic…

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