Borges's Poe - The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America

Edgar Allan Poe's image and import in Spanish America shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers - Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. In Borges's Poe, Emron Esplin focuses on Borges and argues that he served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.

About the author

EMRON ESPLIN is assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University.

Summary

Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe’s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe’s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.

Product details

• Authors: Emron Esplin, Emron/ Smith Esplin
• Assisted by: Riche Richardson (Editor), Jon Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780820349053
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4905-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New Southern Studies; The New Southern Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American