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1 online resource |
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Classics after antiquity
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Classics after antiquity.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Frontispiece; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Borges' Life and Works; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Borges' Classical Revisions; A Rumour of Homer; Pierre Menard's Odyssey and Aeneid; Zeno after Kafka; Classical Memory and Forgetfulness; Classical Absences and Desires; Classics at the Crossroads: Towards a Global Vision; Key Terms and Concepts; Aims and Scope of the Book; Chapter 2 The Flow of Heraclitus; Borgesian Time and the Classics; Heraclitean Receptions |
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Receptions of the Unfinished TextBorges and the Disclosure of Antiquity; Chapter 3 The Idea of Homer; Homer in Borges' Postclassical Landscapes; Homeric Identities and Identifications; Odyssean Voyages into the Post-Historical Self; Borges' Homer in the Twentieth Century; Chapter 4 Virgil's Touch; The Cultural Geography of Borges' Virgil; The Slow Hand and the Tears of Things; Borges' Virgil in Cultural History and Aesthetics; Chapter 5 Antiquity in the Poetic Cosmos; Classical Fragments in Borges' Poetic Siluae; Myth, Poetry and the Möbius Effect of Literature |
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Heraclitus between Chaos and Universal HistoryChapter 6 Interlude: Borges and Global Classics; Global Classics and the Centreless Perspective; Antiquity as a Fragment; Borges' Global Classicism and 'World' Literature; Global Classics vs World Studies; Chapter 7 Successors of Borges' Classicism; Italo Calvino; Umberto Eco; Derek Walcott; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In Borges' Classics, Laura Jansen reads the oeuvre of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges as a radically globalized model for reimagining our relationship with the classical past. This major study reveals how Borges constructs a new 'physics of reading' the classics, which privileges a paradoxical vision of the canon as universal yet centreless, and eschews fixed ideas about the cultural history of the West. Borges' unique approach transforms classical antiquity into a simultaneously familiar and remote world, whose legacy is both urgent and unstable. In the process, Borges repositions the classical tradition at the intersection of the traditional Western canon and modernist literature of the peripheral West. Jansen's study traces Borges' encounters with the classics through appeal to themes central to Borges' thought, such as history and fiction, memory and forgetfulness, the data of the senses, and the vectors that connect cultures and countries. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJyrYX7md4PH6yYpvFPmh3 |
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Civilization, Classical, in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. |
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Civilization, Classical, in literature |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jansen, Laura, 1974- Borges' classics. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2018] 1108418406 9781108418409 (OCoLC)1009311376 |
| ISBN |
9781108307895 (electronic bk.) |
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1108307892 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108289979 |
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1108289975 |
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9781108406024 (paperback) |
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1108406025 |
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1108418406 |
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9781108418409 |
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