The Mythmaker: A Study of Motif and Symbol in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges
Autor Carter Wheelocken Limba Engleză Paperback – 1969
Wheelock also discusses the affinity between Borges’s philosophical idealism and his “esthetic of the intelligence,” the relationship between these and the esthetic ideas of French Symbolism, and the influence on his fictions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Why is it that this “writer’s writer” from the Argentine—erudite, allusive, elusive—has attracted such international attention? In Wheelock’s opinion, it is because he has symbolized in his short stories the fundamental form of the human consciousness, the functioning of the imaginative (world-creating) mechanism, and the eternal battle between form and chaos. The Mythmaker is concerned with elucidating the particulars of Borges’s fictional works, but even as it does so it also reveals their universality.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292727168
ISBN-10: 029272716X
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 029272716X
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Carter Wheelock was Professor of Spanish and former Associate Dean of Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.
Cuprins
- 1. Borges, Symbolism, and the Esthetic Phenomenon
- 2. The Rending of the Veil
- 3. The Radical Regression
- 4. The Symbols of the Zahir
- 5. The Recurrence of the Motif
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
This book enables the reader to understand Borges’s fantasies in ways that show them to be amazingly consistent and minutely accurate in their symbolic depiction of the magic universe of the mind.