Most known for his creative fictions that tackle literary questions of authorship as well as more philosophical notions such as multiverse theory, Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has captivated scholars from a variety of disciplines since his emergence on the international scene. However, much of the scholarship surrounding Borges does not focus on the reception of Borges's works in the fields of philosophy, the visual arts, film, political science, media theory, mathematics, and law, nor does it consider how his affiliations and interests changed over the course of his long life.
In The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges, editors Daniel Balderston and Nora Benedict, along with a team of international scholars, contextualize Jorge Luis Borges's work for a new generation of twenty-first-century readers and critics. This volume shifts the emphasis to Borges's working life, his writing processes, his collaborations and networks, and the political and cultural background of his production. The Handbook also evaluates his impact on a variety of other fields ranging from political science and philosophy to media studies and mathematics. The volume highlights current debates among Borges scholars, reevaluating how the physical forms and socio-political contexts of Borges's writings both shaped and determined specific readerships around the world. Incorporating such broader perspectives into the Handbook brings out tensions, continuities, and discontinuities in Borges's work, allowing for a much more nuanced understanding of it.
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Introduction
Daniel Balderston and Nora Benedict
Chronology
Part I: Borges: Family, Working Life
1. Borges: Biography and its Discontents
Daniel Balderston
2. The Secret Sharer: Borges as Reader
Magdalena Cámpora and Mariana Di Ció
3. From the Other Side of the Library: Borges in Newspapers and Magazines
Sylvia Saítta
4. Developing an Argentine Style in Form and Content: Jorge Luis Borges and Editorial Proa
Nora Benedict
5. Borges: Three Times a Translator
Patricia Willson
6. Borges's Lectures: Literature, Travels and Orality
Mariela Blanco
7. Jobs and Days: Jorge Luis Borges and the Library as a Scene for Literary Production
Laura Rosato and Germán Álvarez
Part II: Representative Works
8. Orality and Literacy in Borges: Two Manuscripts of "Del culto de los libros" [On the Cult of Books]
Daniel Balderston
9. The 1920s Poetry of Jorge Luis Borges: Remapping, Nostalgia and Mythification
Sebastián Hernaiz
10. The Art of Recapitulation: The Early Essays (1920-1936)
Nicolás Lucero
11. Inventing Authors, Imagining Books: An Invisible Literary History
Julio Premat
12. Knives, Vendettas, Bifurcations: Detective Fiction in Borges
Júlio Pimental Pinto
13. Borges, Anthologizer of the Fantastic
Emron Esplin
14. Anthologies of the Self: Borges's Self-Figuration Process between 1935 and 1960
Sebastián Urli
15. The Middle Essays and Reviews
Dardo Scavino
16. Virgil's Keepsakes: Memory and Oblivion in Poetic Form
Silvio Mattoni
17. Borges's Self-Figuration Process in the Late Fiction (1970-1983)
Evelyn Fishburn
Part III: Collaboration
18. The Bustos Domecq Cycle: Going with and against the Flow
Mariano García
19. Jorge Luis Borges and the Interview as Theater
Cody C. Hanson
20. Borges and the Creative Economy of the Apocryphal
Alfredo Alonso Estenoz
Part IV: Reception
In Literature
21. A History of Borges's Reception in Argentina
Sergio Pastormerlo
22. Borges and the Crucible of Aesthetic Autonomy in Latin America
Héctor Hoyos
23. Borges's Reception in Europe and the USA
Edwin Williamson
24. Borges in the Eastern Bloc
László Scholz
25. Borges and the Formation of the Literary Global South
Jay Corwin
In Other Fields
26. "Nueva refutación del tiempo" [A New Refutation of Time] and the Portrayal of an Ironic Fate
Marina Martín
27. Borges and Postcolonial Studies: Toward the Universal and Back
Guido Herzovich
28. Borges in French Theory
Bruno Bosteels
29. Borges, Gender, and Sexuality
Amy Kaminsky
30. Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges in the Revista Multicolor de los Sábados [Multicolor Saturday Magazine]
Patricia M. Artundo
31. Borges, Bewitched by Film
Gonzalo Aguilar
32. Political Theory and Borges's Work
Alejandra M. Salinas
33. Bird, Schedule, Name: On Some Media in Borges
John Durham Peters
34. Mirror. Lens. Puzzlebox. Metaphor.
William Goldbloom Bloch
35. Faithfulness and Betrayal: Community, Legitimacy, and Identity in Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Leonardo Pitlevnik
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Daniel Balderston is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs the Borges Center and its journal Variaciones Borges. He earned his B.A. in English from the University of California-Berkeley and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton. He has published or edited fifteen books on Borges, and has published widely on other writers including José Bianco, Silvina Ocampo,
Augusto Roa Bastos, Ricardo Piglia, Juan José Saer and Juan Carlos Onetti, as well as on translation studies and sexuality studies. Much of his recent work focuses on Borges's manuscripts.
Nora Benedict is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities at the University of Georgia. She received her MA in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Virginia. Her research centers on Latin American literature, book history, and digital and print cultures. Her first monograph, Borges and the Literary Marketplace (Yale, 2021), explains how the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges's general involvement in the
publishing industry influenced his formation as a writer and global book markets. Beyond her research on Borges, her second monograph in progress, Taking a Page from Their Books, examines how international publishing
firms in the Global North capitalized on the economic, political, and cultural opportunities available to them in the book industry in Latin America. For her accomplishments in research at UGA, she recently was awarded the Michael F. Adams Early Career Scholar Award.
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Selling point: Provides an analysis of the impact of Borges's writings in fields others than literature/literary studies
Selling point: Includes detailed consideration of Borges's working life and his writing process
Selling point: Discusses new documents and documentation that have come to light and allow for a more nuanced understanding of Borges's jobs and his working life
Selling point: Showcases how Borges is relevant for fields other than literature or literary studies
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780197535271
Publisert
2024
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Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
1134 gr
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239 mm
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170 mm
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58 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Engelsk
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672