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Borges' esoteric library : metaphysics to metafiction

Title
Borges' esoteric library : metaphysics to metafiction / by Didier T. Jaén.
Author
Jaén, Didier Tisdel.
Publication
Lanham : University Press of America, ©1992.

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Description
xxiii, 230 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 > Knowledge > Metaphysics
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 > Aesthetics
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 > Knowledge
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
  • Experimental fiction > History and criticism
  • Metaphysics in literature
  • Fiction > Technique
  • 18.33 Spanish-American literature
  • Aesthetics
  • Experimental fiction
  • Metaphysics
  • Esoterisme
  • Metafysica
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-215) and index.
Contents
I. Metaphysics and Metafiction -- 1. Borges and The Esoteric Tradition -- 2. The Esoteric, the Fantastic, and Borges' Metafiction -- 3. Borges' Art: Metaphysics as Metafiction -- II. Metaphysics as Metafiction -- 4. The Loss of the Self -- A. The Dream Without a Dreamer: "Berkeley's Crossroads" and "The Circular Ruins" -- B. The Fiction of the Self and "The Approach to al-Mu'tasim" -- 5. The Loss of Reality -- A. Pantheism's Challenge: The Fiction of the World -- B. "Forms of a Legend": Buddha's World as a Stage -- C. The Gnostic Labyrinth: Worlds within Worlds and Images of Images: "The Masked Dyer, Hakim of Merv" -- D. "A Vindication of the Cabala": The World within the Word -- E. Schopenhauer's Hero: The Will as Director and "The Life of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz" -- 6. The Loss of Time -- A. The Fiction of Time in "The South" -- B. Time as the Fourth Dimension and "The Other Death" -- 7. The Loss of Words -- A. In Aristotle's Name: The Fiction of the Word -- B. Language as Metaphysics and "Funes the Memorious" -- 8. The Loss of Salvation -- A. Mystical Skepticism and "The Enigma of Edward Fitzgerald" -- B. The Fiction of Salvation and "The Congress" -- 9. "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" and the Esoteric Tradition.
ISBN
  • 0819184446
  • 9780819184443
LCCN
91029052
OCLC
  • ocm24320378
  • 24320378
  • SCSB-14726760
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library