Reading Borges After Benjamin

Author : Kate Jenckes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791480569
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Borges after Benjamin written by Kate Jenckes and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between time, life, and history in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and examines his work in relation to his contemporary, Walter Benjamin. By focusing on texts from the margins of the Borges canon—including the early poems on Buenos Aires, his biography of Argentina's minstrel poet Evaristo Carriego, the stories and translations from A Universal History of Infamy, as well as some of his renowned stories and essays—Kate Jenckes argues that Borges's writing performs an allegorical representation of history. Interspersed among the readings of Borges are careful and original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays on the relationship between life, language, and history. Reading Borges in relationship to Benjamin draws out ethical and political implications from Borges's works that have been largely overlooked by his critics.

Author : Silvia G. Dapía
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317394836
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jorge Luis Borges, Post-Analytic Philosophy, and Representation written by Silvia G. Dapía and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making an important contribution to studies in Literature and Philosophy, this book reads Jorge Luis Borges philosophically, particularly in reference to his use of representation and reality. Rather than attempting to subordinate Borges to a set of philosophical constructs, to reduce Borges’ texts to mere exemplifications or illustrations of philosophical theories, the book uses Borges’s short stories to demonstrate how philosophical questions related to representation develop out of literature and actually serve as precursors to the various strains of post-analytic philosophy that later developed in the United States. The volume discusses American post-analytic philosophers Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Donald Davidson, Nelson Goodman, and Arthur Danto, as well as a wide-ranging set of philosophical ideas including reflections on Keynes, Hayek, Schopenhauer and many others . Chapters offer detailed readings of Borges’ texts extending from 1939 to 1983, locating where he thematizes issues of representation, and pursuing the logic of Borges’s text toward its philosophical implications without neglecting their literary value. The book argues that Borges’ exploration of the relationship between representation and reality places him unmistakably in the position of a precursor to the post-analytic philosophers. Illuminating the role that language plays in the creation of reality and representation, this volume makes significant contributions not only to Borges scholarship but also post-structuralism, post-analytic studies of language, semiotics, comparative literature, and Latin American literature.

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826442986
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borges' Short Stories written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Readers Guide to ten of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' best-known and most widely studied short stories.

Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438441770
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Painting Borges written by Jorge J. E. Gracia and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative examination of the artistic interpretation of twelve of Borges’s most famous stories.

Author : Edmund Chapman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030324524
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Afterlife of Texts in Translation written by Edmund Chapman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature reads Walter Benjamin’s and Jacques Derrida’s writings on translation as suggesting that texts exist within a process of continual translation. Understanding Benjamin’s and Derrida’s concept of ‘afterlife’ as ‘overliving’, this book proposes that reading Benjamin’s and Derrida’s writings on translation in terms of their wider thought on language and history suggests that textuality itself possesses a ‘messianic’ quality. Developing this idea in relation to the many rewritings and translations of Don Quijote, particularly the multiple rewritings by Jorge Luis Borges, Edmund Chapman asserts that texts consist of a structure of potential for endless translation that continually promises the overcoming of language, history and textuality itself.

Author : Amanda Holmes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009188798
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980: Volume 4 written by Amanda Holmes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus – solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins – and employs them to explore the complexity, heterogeneity and hybridity of form, genre, subject matter and discipline that characterised literature from the period. In doing so, it uncovers the points of transition, connection, contradiction, and tension that shaped the work of many canonical and non-canonical authors. It illuminates the conversations between genres, literary movements, disciplines and modes of representation that underpin writing form this period. Lastly, by focusing on canon and beyond, the volume visibilizes the aesthetics, poetics, politics, and social projects of writing, incorporating established writers, but also writers whose work is yet to be examined in all its complexity.

Author : Crystal Anne Chemris
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855663414
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity written by Crystal Anne Chemris and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Walter Benjamin's notion of constellation, this book draws on theories of Latin American modernity to investigate the Spanish literary Baroque and its repetitions as a historical-cultural predicament in Latin American colonial and modern texts. Inca Garcilaso, Borges, Carpentier, Rulfo, Darío and a range of Latin American "Post-Symbolist" poets (Agustini, Pizarnik, Sosa, Lienlaf and Huinao) are juxtaposed with the Lazarillo, the Quijote, Fuenteovejuna and Góngora's Soledades to produce original readings on topics of violence, rape, frustrated pilgrimage, and the truncated ambitions of colonized peoples and confessional minorities. In turn, Benjamin is juxtaposed with Mallarmé to recast the aesthetic dynamics of modernity in political terms, in order to understand the Baroque within a more broadly historicized concept of the avant-garde. Generous in scope, this book addresses the community of Spanish and Latin American criticism as well as emerging and pressing theoretical concerns within the field of comparative literature.

Author : Oswaldo Estrada
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816531080
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico written by Oswaldo Estrada and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book discusses rewritings of the Mexican colonia to question present-day realities of marginality and inequality, imposed political domination, and hybrid subjectivities. Critics examine literature and films produced in and around Mexico since 2000to broaden our understanding beyond the theories of the new historical novel and upend the notion of the novel as the sole re-creative genre"--

Author : Kate Jenckes
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438465718
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witnessing beyond the Human written by Kate Jenckes and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America. This book rethinks the nature of testimony beyond the ground of the human in works produced in Chile and Argentina from the 1970s to the present. Focusing on literature by Juan Gelman, Sergio Chejfec, and Roberto Bolaño, as well as art by Eugenio Dittborn, Kate Jenckes argues that these works represent life, death, and the relation between self and other “beyond the human,” that is beyond the sense that we can know and represent ourselves and others, with powerful implications for our understanding of history, community, and politics. Jenckes engages with the work of Jacques Derrida together with the intellectually rigorous field of Chilean aesthetic theory to explore issues related to the nature of testimony.

Author : Pablo Oyarzun
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438486812
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Skepticism written by Pablo Oyarzun and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature—in particular, the narrative form and the essay. Pablo Oyarzun proposes that narrative and the essay document the relationship between literature and skepticism in different but complementary and, at the same time, complicit ways. As the narrative performance reaches the structural limit of the literary—understood as the domain of fiction—a sort of para-discursive reflection critically accompanies this performance, discussing it, ironizing it, feigning to disbelieve it, or overtly belying it. Yet the narrative doubtfully takes distance from itself, surrendering all right to a final truth at the very moment at which truth emerges, essayistic, to the surface. The authors considered—Montaigne, Swift, Lichtenberg, Kleist, Kafka, and Borges—are eminent representatives of one and the other form, and all of the works analyzed are cases of a complex interplay between narrative and essay.