You Might Be Able To Get There From Here: Reconsidering Borges And The Postmodern - Couverture rigide

Frisch, Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0838640443 ISBN 13 : 9780838640449

Editeur : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S., 2005

Synopsis

This book details the immense impact that Jorge Luis Borges has had on the thinking and writing of the twentieth century and how many have misunderstood that impact. It highlights how his symbols, techniques, parody, irony, and artful ambiguity in his fiction, essays, and poems force us to question what we can know with certainty, what is real and what is dream, and who we are, and thus define what has become the core of the postmodern vision. The book explores Borges's distinctly Latin American postmodern pluralism. It details how this pluralism has informed the postmodern discussions of the self, love, history, feminism, and politics, and has influenced writers in the U.S. and Latin America. Throughout, it argues that the Argentine writer avoids the nihilism and chaos of a radical relativism that many have come to associate with postmodernism. Rather, his vision affirms values and a search for positive knowledge. Mark Frisch is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Duquesne University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0838640443
• ISBN 13: 9780838640449
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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