A Vindication of the Cabala

A Vindication of the Cabala PDF Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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Languages : en
Pages : 5

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A Vindication of the Cabala

A Vindication of the Cabala PDF Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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Languages : en
Pages : 5

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Borges and His Successors

Borges and His Successors PDF Author: Edna Aizenberg
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826207128
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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"In the first book devoted to the impact made by Borges on the contemporary aesthetic imagination, Aizenberg brings together specially commissioned essays from international scholars in a variety of disciplines to provide a wide-ranging assessment of Borges's influence on the fiction, literary theory, and arts of our time."--Publishers website.

Noble Numbers, Subtle Words

Noble Numbers, Subtle Words PDF Author: Barbara Milberg Fisher
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637401
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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This study approaches the use of mathematics in fiction in an entirely new way, as a potent instrument of language. Following Wittgenstein's description of mathematical constructs as a component of ordinary language, Fisher shows how number, geometric figuration, algebraic coding, and transcendent abstractions have been made to function as practical narrative tools. Far from rehearsing the various paradigms of numerology, whether Pythagorean, Elizabethan, or Cabalistic, this book explores the tactical deployment of mathematical objects as shaping and framing agents. It reveals how mathematical objects may be subordinated to the storyteller's art.

The Mystery to a Solution

The Mystery to a Solution PDF Author: John T. Irwin
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854668
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Irwin mirrors the aesthetic impact of the genre by creating in his study the dynamics of a detective story--the uncovering of mysteries, the accumulation of evidence, the tracing of clues, and the final solution that ties it all together.

The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room

The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room PDF Author: Ilana Shiloh
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820468433
Category : Detective and mystery films
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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The present book explores detective and crime-mystery fiction and film from the perspective of their entrenched metaphors of paradox. --Book Jacket.

Borges and the Kabbalah

Borges and the Kabbalah PDF Author: Jaime Alazraki
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521306841
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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This volume brings together a collection of essays on Borges by leading scholar Jaime Alazraki. Together the essays constitute an introduction to important aspects of Borges' oeuvre, including the influence of the Kabbalah, structure and style in the fiction, Borges' poetry, and Borges' impact on Latin American literature.

Borges and the Literary Marketplace

Borges and the Literary Marketplace PDF Author: Nora C. Benedict
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030026240X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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A fascinating history of Jorge Luis Borges’s efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) stands out as one of the most widely regarded and inventive authors in world literature. Yet the details of his employment history throughout the early part of the twentieth century, which foreground his efforts to develop a worldly reading public, have received scant critical attention. From librarian and cataloguer to editor and publisher, this writer emerges as entrenched in the physical minutiae and social implications of the international book world. Drawing on years of archival research coupled with bibliographical analysis, this book explains how Borges’s more general involvement in the publishing industry influenced not only his formation as a writer, but also global book markets and reading practices in world literature. In this way it tells the story of Borges’s profound efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America through his varying jobs in the publishing industry.

Zeal for Zion

Zeal for Zion PDF Author: Shalom Goldman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807833444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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The standard histories of Zionism have depicted it almost exclusively as a Jewish political movement, one in which Christians do not appear except as antagonists. In the highly original Zeal for Zion, Shalom Goldman makes the case for a wider and m

Labyrinths

Labyrinths PDF Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

Ficciones

Ficciones PDF Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802190731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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“Borges’s composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object—his way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he creates: it is a brilliant, burnished instrument, and it is quite adequate to the extreme demands his baroque imagination makes of it . . . . Absolutely and most vividly original.”—Saturday Review The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal’s abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges’s Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges’s genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.