Borges Language And Reality
Download Borges Language And Reality full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Borges Language And Reality ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Borges Language and Reality
Author | : Alfonso J. García-Osuna |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319959122 |
Download Borges Language and Reality Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Jorge Luis Borges Post Analytic Philosophy and Representation
Author | : Silvia G. Dapía |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2015-08-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317394839 |
Download Jorge Luis Borges Post Analytic Philosophy and Representation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Making an important contribution to studies in Literature and Philosophy, this book reads Jorge Luis Borges philosophically, particularly in reference to his use of representation and reality. Rather than attempting to subordinate Borges to a set of philosophical constructs, to reduce Borges’ texts to mere exemplifications or illustrations of philosophical theories, the book uses Borges’s short stories to demonstrate how philosophical questions related to representation develop out of literature and actually serve as precursors to the various strains of post-analytic philosophy that later developed in the United States. The volume discusses American post-analytic philosophers Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Donald Davidson, Nelson Goodman, and Arthur Danto, as well as a wide-ranging set of philosophical ideas including reflections on Keynes, Hayek, Schopenhauer and many others . Chapters offer detailed readings of Borges’ texts extending from 1939 to 1983, locating where he thematizes issues of representation, and pursuing the logic of Borges’s text toward its philosophical implications without neglecting their literary value. The book argues that Borges’ exploration of the relationship between representation and reality places him unmistakably in the position of a precursor to the post-analytic philosophers. Illuminating the role that language plays in the creation of reality and representation, this volume makes significant contributions not only to Borges scholarship but also post-structuralism, post-analytic studies of language, semiotics, comparative literature, and Latin American literature.
Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors Or Notes Towards a Materialist History of Linguistic Idealism
Author | : Malcolm Kevin Read |
Publsiher | : Unc Department of Romance Studies |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015029966218 |
Download Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors Or Notes Towards a Materialist History of Linguistic Idealism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Read locates both the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Western ideas on language in their historical context. He reviews the theoretically diverse critical approaches to Borges's work, including both those that collude with the texts and others that are hostile to the Argentinian writer, and argues that all are inadequate for understanding Borges. He maintains that the modern subject is now characterized by narcissism associated with philosophical skepticism.
The Book of Sand
Author | : Jorge Luis Borges |
Publsiher | : Dutton Books |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015035341034 |
Download The Book of Sand Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.
Borges and His Successors
Author | : Edna Aizenberg |
Publsiher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : 082620712X |
Download Borges and His Successors Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"In the first book devoted to the impact made by Borges on the contemporary aesthetic imagination, Aizenberg brings together specially commissioned essays from international scholars in a variety of disciplines to provide a wide-ranging assessment of Borges's influence on the fiction, literary theory, and arts of our time."--Publishers website.
Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors
Author | : Malcolm Kevin Read |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Argentina |
ISBN | : 1469642751 |
Download Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Read locates both the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Western ideas on language in their historical context. He reviews the theoretically diverse critical approaches to Borges's work, including both those that collude with the texts and others that are hostile to the Argentinian writer, and argues that all are inadequate for understanding Borges. He maintains that the modern subject is now characterized by narcissism associated with philosophical skepticism.
Borges and Philosophy
Author | : William H. Bossart |
Publsiher | : Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : UOM:39015063300654 |
Download Borges and Philosophy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Jorge Luis Borges is acknowledged as one of the great Spanish writers of the twentieth century. On the broader literary scene, he is recognized as a modern master. His fascination with philosophy - especially metaphysics - sets him apart from his contemporaries. Borges appreciated and formulated rigorous philosophical arguments, but also possessed the unique ability to present the most abstract ideas imaginatively in metaphors and symbols. Borges wandered among the great masters seeking a firm purchase that he could not find, and therefore expressed a nostalgia for metaphysics as he lost himself in his labyrinths. Borges and Philosophy traces Borges' philosophical concerns in his tales, essays, and poems and argues that despite his apparent skepticism in philosophical matters, a careful reading of Borges' texts reveals a coherent philosophical path that underlies his work.
The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges
Author | : Edwin Williamson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2013-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107728820 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.