UID:
almafu_9959677561102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (234 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06298-4
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9786613062987
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0-8223-8302-0
Serie:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Inhalt:
In Jorge Luis Borges's finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history--in short, to reality. Out of Context corrects this shortsighted view and reveals the very real basis of the Argentine master's purported ""irreality."" By providing the historical context for some of the writer's best-loved and least understood works, this study also gives us a new sense of Borges's place within the context of contemporary literature.Through a detailed examination of seven stories, Dan
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction: History, Politics, and Literature in Borges -- Menard and His Contemporaries: The Arms and Letters Debate -- The "Labyrinth of Trenches without Any Plan" in "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan" -- Prague, March 1939: Recovering the Historicity of "El milagro secreto" -- Cryptogram and Scripture: Losing Count in "La escritura del dios" -- Going Native: Beyond Civilization and Savagery in "Historia del guerrero y de la cautiva" -- On the Threshold of Otherness: British India in "El hombre en el umbral" -- Behind Closed Doors: The Guayaquil Meeting and the Silences of History -- Conclusion.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-1316-2
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-1289-1
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Romanistik
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9780822383024
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822383024?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383024
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822383024
