Borges' Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman PastCambridge University Press, 14 jun 2018 In Borges' Classics, Laura Jansen reads the oeuvre of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges as a radically globalized model for reimagining our relationship with the classical past. This major study reveals how Borges constructs a new 'physics of reading' the classics, which privileges a paradoxical vision of the canon as universal yet centreless, and eschews fixed ideas about the cultural history of the West. Borges' unique approach transforms classical antiquity into a simultaneously familiar and remote world, whose legacy is both urgent and unstable. In the process, Borges repositions the classical tradition at the intersection of the traditional Western canon and modernist literature of the peripheral West. Jansen's study traces Borges' encounters with the classics through appeal to themes central to Borges' thought, such as history and fiction, memory and forgetfulness, the data of the senses, and the vectors that connect cultures and countries. |
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Borges Classical Revisions | 1 |
The Flow of Heraclitus | 26 |
The Idea of Homer | 52 |
Virgils Touch | 96 |
Antiquity in the Poetic Cosmos | 112 |
Borges and Global Classics | 120 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Aeneid Aleph allusive ancient Greece appeal Argentine become Bernès Borgesian Buenos Aires Burgos Caesar Calvino catalogue century Chapter citation classical antiquity classical canon classical past classical presences Classical Reception complex conception cosmos cultural history cultural memory Derek Walcott dialogue discussion Eco’s emerges epic essay eternity explores Ferrari fiction forget fragmentary fragments Funes Furthermore global classicism global vision Graeco-Roman past Greek haptic Heraclitus Homer idea identity Iliad imagination Immortal impact infinity interplay Italo Calvino J. L. Borges Jansen Jorge Luis Borges Latin Library of Babel literary Lucretius Maker metaphor modernity narrative notion oblivion Odyssey oeuvre perspective physics of reading plot poem poet poetics postclassical potentially present Proteus Read the Classics reader of Borges recalls Ricardo Piglia sense space story study of Borges successor of Borges Tacitus temporal texts textuality themes tradition trans transcultural universal Virgil Virgilian Walcott Western canon world literature writing