Borges Narrative Strategy

Author : Donald Leslie Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borges' Narrative Strategy written by Donald Leslie Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is general consensus about the meaning of most of the stories of Jorge Luis Borges, perhaps the best known and most cosmopolitan Latin American writer of the twentieth century. Professor Shaw turns to the less examined area of structure and narrative method. Over sixty tales, from all the main collections, are brought into play to illustrate such techniques as framing devices, pivotal episodes, shifting themes and inlaid details. The process reveals Borges' craftsmanship and ability to tailor form to content; in some cases, Shaw suggests, formal arrangement functions as a metaphor of Borges' ideas about reality.

Author : Donald Leslie Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borges' Narrative Strategy written by Donald Leslie Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is general consensus about the meaning of most of the stories of Jorge Luis Borges, perhaps the best known and most cosmopolitan Latin American writer of the twentieth century. Professor Shaw turns to the less examined area of structure and narrative method. Over sixty tales, from all the main collections, are brought into play to illustrate such techniques as framing devices, pivotal episodes, shifting themes and inlaid details. The process reveals Borges' craftsmanship and ability to tailor form to content; in some cases, Shaw suggests, formal arrangement functions as a metaphor of Borges' ideas about reality.

Author : Gene H. Bell-Villada
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782934
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borges and His Fiction written by Gene H. Bell-Villada and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of García Márquez delivers “a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy” (New York Daily News). Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene H. Bell-Villada has significantly revised and expanded the book to incorporate new information that has become available since Borges’ death in 1986. In particular, he offers a more complete look at Borges and Peronism and Borges’ personal experiences of love and mysticism, as well as revised interpretations of some of Borges’ stories. As before, the book is divided into three sections that examine Borges’ life, his stories in Ficciones and El Aleph, and his place in world literature. “Of the scores of Borges studies by now published in English, Bell-Villada’s excellent book stands out as one of the freshest and most generally helpful . . . Lay readers and specialists alike will find his book a valuable and highly readable companion to Ficciones and El Aleph.” —Choice

Author : Rex Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441144404
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borges' Short Stories written by Rex Butler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers, and literary theorists. This guide offers a close reading of ten of Borges' greatest short stories, seeking to bring out the logic that has made his work so influential. The main section of the guide offers an analysis of such key terms in Borges' work as "labyrinth" and the "infinite" and analyzes Borges' particular narrative strategies. This guide also sets Borges' work within its wider literary, cultural and intellectual contexts and provides an annotated guide to both scholarly and popular responses to his work to assist further reading.

Author : Nataly Tcherepashenets
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820463957
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Place and Displacement in the Narrative Worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar written by Nataly Tcherepashenets and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Place and Displacement in the Narrative Worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar engages the notions of place and displacement as heuristic devices for literary analysis of Borges's and Cortázar's narratives. It maps out these authors' visions of place and displacement in some of their most famous texts; locates the 'place' of Borges's texts within Cortázar's fictional universe; and delineates new routes in communication between different literary traditions, and philosophical and anthropological discourses. This book also suggests that the challenge of a strict opposition between place and displacement in Borges's and Cortázar's works is both representative and emblematic of a continuum of Latin American literature.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410346617
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Jorge Luis Borges's "The Garden of Forking Paths" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410348423
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Jorge Luis Borges's "The House of Asterion" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Jorge Luis Borges's "The House of Asterion," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Naomi Lindstrom
Publisher : Twayne Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780805783278
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jorge Luis Borges written by Naomi Lindstrom and published by Twayne Pub. This book was released on 1990 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines both periods of the Argentine writer's works--his early baroque style with elaborate plot construction, and his later more traditional narratives

Author : Syndy M. Conger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Strategies written by Syndy M. Conger and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 198489949X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borges and Me written by Jay Parini and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. Borges—visiting his translator in Scotland—is in his seventies, blind and frail. When Borges hears that Parini owns a 1957 Morris Minor, he declares a long-held wish to visit the Highlands, where he hopes to meet a man in Inverness who is interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles. As they travel, stopping at various sites of historical interest, the charmingly garrulous Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of Western literature and ideas, while promising to teach him about love and poetry. As Borges’s idiosyncratic world of labyrinths, mirrors, and doubles shimmers into being, their escapades take a surreal turn. Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. It’s also a magical mystery tour of an era, like our own, in which uncertainties abound, and when—as ever—it’s the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams.