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Poet Librarians in the Library of Babel
Author | : Sommer Browning,Shannon Tharp |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2018-04-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1634000285 |
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"A compendium of experimental essays, creative meditations, non-fiction accounts, and lyrical explorations that explore perspectives on subjects related to libraries and librarianship"--Back cover.
Tar for Mortar
Author | : Jonathan Basile |
Publsiher | : punctum books |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781947447509 |
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TAR FOR MORTAR offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature's greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story "The Library of Babel" is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges's narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator's claims of the library's universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library - is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges's imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology.
Mindreadings
Author | : Femi Oyebode |
Publsiher | : RCPsych Publications |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1904671608 |
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The authors explore the description and representation of mental states, lived distress, character of psychology and psychological institutional practices.
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges Library of Babel
Author | : William Goldbloom Bloch |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-08-25 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0199715165 |
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"The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning G?del, Escher, Bach, this original and imaginative book sheds light on one of Borges' most complex, richly layered works. Bloch begins each chapter with a mathematical idea--combinatorics, topology, geometry, information theory--followed by examples and illustrations that put flesh on the theoretical bones. In this way, he provides many fascinating insights into Borges' Library. He explains, for instance, a straightforward way to calculate how many books are in the Library--an easily notated but literally unimaginable number--and also shows that, if each book were the size of a grain of sand, the entire universe could only hold a fraction of the books in the Library. Indeed, if each book were the size of a proton, our universe would still not be big enough to hold anywhere near all the books. Given Borges' well-known affection for mathematics, this exploration of the story through the eyes of a humanistic mathematician makes a unique and important contribution to the body of Borgesian criticism. Bloch not only illuminates one of the great short stories of modern literature but also exposes the reader--including those more inclined to the literary world--to many intriguing and entrancing mathematical ideas.
Sammlung
Author | : Jorge Luis Borges,Eliot Weinberger |
Publsiher | : Penguin Modern Classics |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Argentine literature |
ISBN | : 0141183020 |
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Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In THE TOTAL LIBRARY, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been published in English. THE TOTAL LIBRARY presents Borges at once as a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and as the inventor of a universe that is an indispensible guide to Borges
Running the Books
Author | : Avi Steinberg |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780767931311 |
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Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to attend Harvard, he has nothing but a senior thesis on Bugs Bunny to show for himself. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, Steinberg remains stuck at a crossroads, his “romantic” existence as a freelance obituary writer no longer cutting it. Seeking direction (and dental insurance) Steinberg takes a job running the library counter at a Boston prison. He is quickly drawn into the community of outcasts that forms among his bookshelves—an assortment of quirky regulars, including con men, pimps, minor prophets, even ghosts—all searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world. Steinberg recounts their daily dramas with heartbreak and humor in this one-of-a-kind memoir—a piercing exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young man’s earnest attempt to find his place in the world.
The Aleph and Other Stories 1933 1969
Author | : Jorge Luis Borges |
Publsiher | : Plume Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Argentina |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105007494128 |
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"Dazzling and unmistakable in style, resonant in meaning, Jorge Luis Borges' 'The Aleph and Other Stories' contains the best of Borges' fiction. Included also is a lengthy autobiographical essay written especially for this volume. The twenty stories in this book cover the whole span and all the various facets of Borges' forty-year career as a short story writer. The collection is the most definitive and comprehensive available in English."--Jacket.
The Library of Babel
Author | : Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn |
Publsiher | : Book on Demand Limited |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2012-05 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 5512173138 |
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Library of Babel" (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format.