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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Borges, or the Geography of Sentience Alfonso J. García-Osuna
• Borges and the Third Man: Toward an Interpretation of 'Unánime noche' in "The Circular Ruins"
• José Luis Fernández
• Borges and Nietzschean Ethics: Another Branch of Fantastic Literature?
• Cesar Rivera
• Ireneo Funes: Superman or Failure? A Husserlian Analysis
• Ethan Rubin Contradictory Rhetoric: Disassembling "Pierre Menard, autordel Quijote"
• Patricia Reagan
• Meetings of Anger: Borges on Metaphor David Ben-Merre
• Borges, Lorca and Jung as Labyrinth Makers Salvatore Poeta
• The Tlönian Cone
• Fredy R. Zypman Incomplete Works: Borges' Literary Idealism
• Alejandro Riberi
• Borges, Ethics, and Evil
• Donald Shaw
• Jorge Luis Borges Index.