UID:
kobvindex_HPB1089016149
Format:
1 online resource (240 pages)
ISBN:
9781786949509
,
1786949504
Series Statement:
Liverpool Latin American Studies LUP Ser.
Content:
Until now Jorge Luis Borges has been considered an asexual author who could not read or write about sex, but in this study historian Ariel de la Fuente reveals for the first time the relationship between Borges's sexual biography, his erotic readings, and the expression of desire and sex in his literature.
Note:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. On Borges's Sexuality; 2. Biography in Literature and the Reading of Desire and Sex in Borges; 3. Borges's Erotic Library: The Poetry Shelf; 4. Sir Richard Burton's Orientalist Erotica: The Thousand Nights and a Night and The Perfume; 5. Schopenhauer and Montaigne, Philosophy and Sex; 6. Desire and Sex in Buenos Aires: Borges's Poetry on the Arrabal; 7. Stoicism and Borges's Writing of Women; 8. ""Emma Zunz"": Sex, Virtue, and Punishment; 9. "La intrusa": Incest and Gay Readings; Conclusions; Works Cited; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: De la Fuente, Ariel. Borges, Desire, and Sex. Oxford : Liverpool University Press, ©2019 ISBN 9781786941503
Language:
English
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