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Title

Jorge Luis Borges : thought and knowledge in the XXth century / Alfonso de Toro, Fernando de Toro (eds.).

Publication

Frankfurt am Main : Vervuert ; Madrid : Iberoamericana, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Carleton University. Centre for Research on Comparative Literary Studies.
• Coloquio Internacional "Jorge Luis Borges" (1996 : Leipzig, Germany?)
• Toro, Alfonso de.
• Toro, Fernando de.
• Universität Leipzig (1991- ). Centro de Investigación Iberoamericana.
• Universität Leipzig. Centro de Investigación Iberoamericana.

Description

358 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Teoría y crítica de la cultura y literatura = Theorie und Kritik der Kultur und Literatur = Theory and criticism of culture and literature ; 17

Uniform Title

Teoría y crítica de la cultura y literatura ; v. 17.

Alternative Title

Jorge Luis Borges, thought and knowledge in the twentieth century

Subject

• Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
• Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 > Philosophy > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "The current volume is the result of an International Colloquium held by the Ibero-American Research Centre at Leipzig University in conjunction with the Centre for Research on Comparative Literary Studies from Carleton University in March 13-17, 1996"--P. 7.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Jorge Luis Borges, religions and the mystical experience / Mar©Ưa Kodama de Borges -- Borges, or the mystique of silence : what was on the other side of the Zahir / Luce L©đpez-Baralt -- Textual space and the art of Chinese gardening in Borges' "The garden of forking paths" / Arturo Echavarr©Ưa -- De-narrativizing the populist state apparatus : Borges' "La loter©Ưa en Babilonia" / Alberto Moreiras -- Borges/Derrida and writing / Fernando de Toro -- Borges/Derrida/Foucault : pharmakeus/heterotopia or beyond literature ("hors-litt©♭rature") : writing, phantoms, simulacra, masks, the carnival and, Alt©œn/Tl©œn, Ykva/Uqbar, Hlaer, Jangr, Hr©œn(n)/Hr©œnir, Ur and other figures / Alfonso de Toro -- Borges and Mauthner : from philosophy to critique of language / Silvia G. Dap©Ưa -- The most consistent idealism according to Borges : the negation of time / C. Ulises Moulines -- Borges and Calvino : chaosmos unleashed? / Floyd Merrell -- Some aspects of the problem of time in the works of Jorge Luis Borges : an eclectic between Plato and the theory of relativity / Eckhard H©œfner -- Borges : cultural theory and criticism / Beatriz Sarlo -- "Nazism is uninhabitable" : Borges, the Holocaust, and the expansion of knowledge / Edna Aizenberg -- The superstitious and the truthful ethics of the reader / Rolf Kloepfer -- Circling the cross, crossing the circle : on Borges and Chesterton / Elmar Schenkel -- Borges' "baroquism" / Laura Milano, Rosa Mar©Ưa Ravera -- Borges between the printing press and the hypertext / Ema Lapidot.

ISBN

• 3893542175 (Vervuert)
• 8495107406 (Iberoamericana)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library