Jaime Alazraki

Borges and the Kabbalah

And Other Essays on His Fiction and Poetry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together a collection of essays on Borges by leading scholar Jaime Alazraki.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780521314213
• ISBN-10: 0521314216
• Artikelnr.: 27256697

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Borges and the Kabbalah: 1. Introduction
2. Borges and the Kabbalah
3. Kabbalistic traits in Borges' narratives
4. Appendix to Part I: 'The Kabbalah', by Jorge Luis Borges
Part II. Fiction: 5. Structure as meaning in 'The South'
6. Borges, or style as an invisible worker
7. The making of a style: a universal history of infamy
Part III. Poetry: 8. Outside and inside the mirror in Borges' poetry
9. Enumerations as evocations: on the use of a device in Borges' late poetry
10. Language as a musical organism: Borges' later poetry
Part IV. Essays and Other Questions: 11. Oxymoronic structure in Borges' essays
12. Borges and the new Latin American novel
13. Borges' modernism and the new critical idiom
Epilogue: On Borges' death
Index.