A Vindication of the Cabala
Title | A Vindication of the Cabala PDF eBook |
Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 5 |
Release | 1959* |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Borges and His Successors
Title | Borges and His Successors PDF eBook |
Author | Edna Aizenberg |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN | 9780826207128 |
"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
Title | Noble Numbers, Subtle Words PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Milberg Fisher |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780838637401 |
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
Title | The Mystery to a Solution PDF eBook |
Author | John T. Irwin |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801854668 |
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
Title | The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room PDF eBook |
Author | Ilana Shiloh |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Detective and mystery films |
ISBN | 9780820468433 |
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
Title | Borges and the Kabbalah PDF eBook |
Author | Jaime Alazraki |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 1988-08-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521306841 |
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
Title | Borges and the Literary Marketplace PDF eBook |
Author | Nora C. Benedict |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 2021-09-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 030026240X |
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.