Borges, Language and Reality The Transcendence of the Word /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: García-Osuna, Alfonso J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Literatures of the Americas
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Postmodernism (Literature).; Philology.; Linguistics.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Postmodern Literature.; Language and Literature.

This book brings together the work of several scholars to shed light on the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges' complex relationship with language and reality. A critical assumption driving the work is that there is, as Jaime Alazraki has put it, 'a genuine effort to overcome the narrownes...