Borges' Short Stories: A Reader's Guide
The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers, and literary theorists. This guide offers a close reading of ten of Borges' greatest short stories, seeking to bring out the logic that has made his work so influential. The main section of the guide offers an analysis of such key terms in Borges' work as "labyrinth" and the "infinite" and analyzes Borges' particular narrative strategies.
This guide also sets Borges' work within its wider literary, cultural and intellectual contexts and provides an annotated guide to both scholarly and popular responses to his work to assist further reading.

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Borges' Short Stories: A Reader's Guide
The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers, and literary theorists. This guide offers a close reading of ten of Borges' greatest short stories, seeking to bring out the logic that has made his work so influential. The main section of the guide offers an analysis of such key terms in Borges' work as "labyrinth" and the "infinite" and analyzes Borges' particular narrative strategies.
This guide also sets Borges' work within its wider literary, cultural and intellectual contexts and provides an annotated guide to both scholarly and popular responses to his work to assist further reading.

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Borges' Short Stories: A Reader's Guide

Borges' Short Stories: A Reader's Guide

by Rex Butler
Borges' Short Stories: A Reader's Guide

Borges' Short Stories: A Reader's Guide

by Rex Butler

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Overview

The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers, and literary theorists. This guide offers a close reading of ten of Borges' greatest short stories, seeking to bring out the logic that has made his work so influential. The main section of the guide offers an analysis of such key terms in Borges' work as "labyrinth" and the "infinite" and analyzes Borges' particular narrative strategies.
This guide also sets Borges' work within its wider literary, cultural and intellectual contexts and provides an annotated guide to both scholarly and popular responses to his work to assist further reading.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826442987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/25/2010
Series: Reader's Guides
Pages: 143
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Rex Butler is Professor of Art History at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Melbourbane, Australia. His previous publications include Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (1999).

Table of Contents

1. Contexts2. Reading the Short Stories - The Labyrinthine - The Borgesian - Infinity and One - Fictions3. Reception and Influence4. Annotated BibliographyIndex

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