| Borges' Short Stories: A Reader's Guide Contributor(s): Butler, Rex (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826442986 ISBN-13: 9780826442987 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $133.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2010 Annotation: A Readers Guide to ten of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' best-known and most widely studied short stories. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 868 |
| LCCN: 2010277556 |
| Series: Reader's Guides |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.75 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers, and literary theorists. This guide offers a close reading of ten of Borges' greatest short stories, seeking to bring out the logic that has made his work so influential. The main section of the guide offers an analysis of such key terms in Borges' work as labyrinth and the infinite and analyzes Borges' particular narrative strategies. |