Borges' Classics
Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman Past
Published on 23. May 2018
198 pages
978-1-108-30789-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Halftones, black and white
File size
2,65 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-30789-5 (9781108307895)
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Person
Laura Jansen is Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Bristol. Her publications include The Roman Paratext: Texts, Frames, Readers (edited; Cambridge, 2014), articles on paratextuality in classical literature and essays on the theory and methods of classical reception.
Content
1. Borges' classical revisions; 2. The flow of Heraclitus; 3. The idea of Homer; 4. Virgil's Touch; 5. Antiquity in the poetic cosmos; 6. Interlude - Borges and global classics; 7. Successors of Borges' classicism.
