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Borges, Language and Reality

The Transcendence of the Word

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Alfonso J. García-Osuna

    1. Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA

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  • Takes a unique and innovative new perspective on one of Latin America’s most widely-read authors
  • Provides multidisciplinary approaches, covering a range of topics from philosophy to physics, in addition to literature
  • Features contributions from Borges experts and established scholars in addition to up-and-coming scholars

Part of the book series: Literatures of the Americas (LOA)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Borges, or the Geography of Sentience

    • Alfonso J. García-Osuna
    Pages 1-13

  3. Borges and the Third Man: Toward an Interpretation of ‘Unánime noche’ in “The Circular Ruins”

    • José Luis Fernández
    Pages 15-32

  4. Borges and Nietzschean Ethics: Another Branch of Fantastic Literature?

    • Cesar Rivera
    Pages 33-50

  5. Ireneo Funes: Superman or Failure? A Husserlian Analysis

    • Ethan Rubin
    Pages 51-61

  6. Contradictory Rhetoric: Disassembling “Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote”

    • Patricia Reagan
    Pages 63-76

  7. Meetings of Anger: Borges on Metaphor

    • David Ben-Merre
    Pages 77-85

  8. Borges, Lorca and Jung as Labyrinth Makers

    • Salvatore Poeta
    Pages 87-102

  9. The Tlönian Cone

    • Fredy R. Zypman
    Pages 103-111

  10. Incomplete Works: Borges’ Literary Idealism

    • Alejandro Riberi
    Pages 113-122

  11. Borges, Ethics, and Evil

    • Donald Shaw
    Pages 123-131

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 133-145
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About this book

This book brings together the work of several scholars to shed light on the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges' complex relationship with language and reality. A critical assumption driving the work is that there is, as Jaime Alazraki has put it, 'a genuine effort to overcome the narrowness that Western tradition has imposed as a master and measure of reality' in Borges' writing. That narrowness is in large measure a consequence of the chronic influence of positivist approaches to reality that rely on empirical evidence for any authentication of what is 'real'. This study shows that, in opposition to such restrictions, Borges saw in fiction, in literature, the most viable means of discussing reality in a pragmatic manner. Moreover, by scrutinising several of the author's works, it establishes signposts for considering the truly complicated relationship that Borges had with reality, one that intimately associates the 'real' with human perception,insight and language.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA

    Alfonso J. García-Osuna

About the editor

Alfonso J. García-Osuna (Ph.D. 1989, The City University of New York, USA) is the author of several books and articles on Spanish and Latin American Literature. An avid cyclist, he has completed the Pilgrimage Road to Santiago seven times.

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