Borges and Plato

Borges and Plato
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Publisher : Iberoamericana Editorial
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9788484895954
ISBN-13 : 8484895955
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Borges and Plato by : Shlomy Mualem

Download or read book Borges and Plato written by Shlomy Mualem and published by Iberoamericana Editorial. This book was released on 2012 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative approach shows how the Platonic viewpoint sheds new light on Borges' essayistic and fictional work. Analyses to which extent his thought is deeply rooted in classical philosophical doctrines.

The Book of Sand

The Book of Sand
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Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 0140180257
ISBN-13 : 9780140180251
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Book of Sand by : Jorge Luis Borges

Download or read book The Book of Sand written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the stories The Congress, Undr, The Mirror and the Mask, August 25, 1983, Blue Tigers, The Rose of Paracelsus and Shakespeare's Memory.

Everything and Nothing

Everything and Nothing
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 126
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ISBN-10 : 0811214001
ISBN-13 : 9780811214001
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Everything and Nothing by : Jorge Luis Borges

Download or read book Everything and Nothing written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."--The New Yorker

The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges

The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781107728820
ISBN-13 : 1107728827
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by : Edwin Williamson

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges written by Edwin Williamson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction in many other languages. However, Borges has been accessible in English only through a number of anthologies drawn mainly from his work of the 1940s and 1950s. The primary aim of this Companion is to provide a more comprehensive account of Borges's oeuvre and the evolution of his writing. It offers critical assessments by leading scholars of the poetry of his youth and the later poetry and fiction, as well as of the 'canonical' volumes of the middle years. Other chapters focus on key themes and interests, and on his influence in literary theory and translation studies.

Kant's Dog

Kant's Dog
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781438442662
ISBN-13 : 1438442661
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Kant's Dog by : David E. Johnson

Download or read book Kant's Dog written by David E. Johnson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant's Dog provides fresh insight into Borges's preoccupation with the contradiction of the time that passes and the identity that endures. By developing the implicit logic of the Borgesian archive, which is most often figured as the universal demand for and necessary impossibility of translation, Kant's Dog is able to spell out Borges's responses to the philosophical problems that most concerned him, those of the constitution of time, eternity, and identity; the determination of original and copy; the legitimacy of authority; experience; the nature of language and the possibility of a decision; and the name of God. Kant's Dog offers original interpretations of several of Borges's best known and most important stories and of the works of key figures in the history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Saint Paul, Maimonides, Hume, Locke, Kant, Heidegger, and Derrida. This study outlines Borges's curious relationship to literature and philosophy and, through a reconsideration of the relation between necessity and accident, opens the question of the constitution of philosophy and literature. The afterword develops the logic of translation toward the secret at the heart of every culture in order to posit a Borgesian challenge to anthropology and cultural studies.

Mazes and Amazements

Mazes and Amazements
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Publisher : Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1787071979
ISBN-13 : 9781787071971
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

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Download or read book Mazes and Amazements written by Shlomy Mualem and published by Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Philosophical Inquisitions -- Chapter 1: Labyrinthal Paradigms: Western Philosophy in Borges' Oeuvre -- Chapter 2: Literary Philosophers: Mythos and Logos in Borges and Plato -- Chapter 3: Philosophy and Ideology: Dialectical Orientalism in Borges' Writings -- Part II: Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter 4: Borges and Schopenhauer: Microcosms and Aesthetic Observation -- Chapter 5: Borges, Heraclitus, and the River of Time -- Chapter 6: A View from Eternity: The Archetypal Quest -- Chapter 7: Borges and Levinas Face to Face: Writing and the Riddle of Subjectivity -- Chapter 8: Narrative Aspect Change and Alternating Systems of Justice: A Wittgensteinian Reading of Borges -- Chapter 9: Borges, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard on the Boundaries of Language: Mystical Silence and Indirect Communication -- Chapter 10: Borges and Berkeley: Idealism and the Ontology of the Fantastical Object -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

This Craft of Verse

This Craft of Verse
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9780674008205
ISBN-13 : 0674008200
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Book Synopsis This Craft of Verse by : Jorge Luis Borges

Download or read book This Craft of Verse written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcribed from recently discovered tapes, this work stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony to the life of literature. 1 halftone.