Signs of Borges

"I can think of no other scholar of Latin American literature who enjoys and amply deserves the reputation of Sylvia Molloy. She is a brilliant reader and an elegant writer, the one scholar who makes Borges accessible without making him simple."--Doris Sommer, Amherst College

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction 1

1. Shadow Plays 5

2. Textual Rubrications 26

3. Fragments and Greeks 40

4. Postulating a Reality, Selecting a Reality 58

5. Converting the Simulacrum 77

6. Pleasure and Perplexity 95

7. The Buried Foundation 112

Abbreviations 131

Notes 133

Index 139

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University, is the author of numerous books of criticism, including At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America, and a novel, Certificate of Absence. Oscar Montero is Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Molloy, Sylvia Molloy, Sylvia Molloy
• Mitarbeit: Oscar Montero (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 19.11.1993
• EAN: 9780822314066
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1406-6
• Seiten: 160
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 231 mm x 18 mm
• Gewicht: 408 g
• Serien: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Latin America in Translation; Crm Proceedings & Lecture Note; Latin America in Translation; Crm Proceedings & Lecture Note
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Romanische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft