Borges, Buddhism and World Literature A Morphology of Renunciation Tales /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jullien, Dominique (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Literatures of the Americas
• Θέματα: Latin American literature.; Comparative literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an asceti...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Leaving the Palace
• 2. A Borgesian Morphology: Renunciation, Morphology and World Literature
• 3. A Lesson for the King: Renunciation and Politics
• 4. From Ascetic to Poet: Poetic Renunciation
• 5. Modernity's Enigmatic Parables of Renunciation
• 6. Conclusion: Renunciation Stories and Wandering Kings.