Borges'' Classics - Global Encounters With the Graeco-Roman Past

The first in-depth exploration of Borges' classicism and a major contribution to the field of global classics and Borges studies.

List of contents

1. Borges' classical revisions; 2. The flow of Heraclitus; 3. The idea of Homer; 4. Virgil's Touch; 5. Antiquity in the poetic cosmos; 6. Interlude - Borges and global classics; 7. Successors of Borges' classicism.

About the author

Laura Jansen is Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Bristol. Her publications include The Roman Paratext: Texts, Frames, Readers (edited; Cambridge, 2014), articles on paratextuality in classical literature and essays on the theory and methods of classical reception.

Summary

Reads the oeuvre of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges as a radically globalized model for reimagining our relationship with the classical past. The first in-depth exploration of Borges' engagement with classical antiquity in any language and a major contribution to the field of global classics and to Borges studies.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Jansen, Laura (University of Bristol) Jansen, Jansen Laura
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781108418409
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41840-9
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Classics After Antiquity; Classics after Antiquity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Latin-American Spanish, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets