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.

Sommario

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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laura Jansen, Laura (University of Bristol) Jansen, Jansen Laura
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781108406024
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40602-4
• Pagine: 196
• Serie: Classics after Antiquity
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Antichità; 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