Borges, desire, and sex /
The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most sophisticated writers of the twentieth century, suffered from sexual impotence. This emotionally overwhelming condition shaped his literary experience in ways that have not been understood. Until now Borges has largely been considered an asexual autho...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Liverpool Latin American studies ;
new ser., 18. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- On Borges's sexuality
- Biography in literature and the reading of desire and sex in Borges
- Borges's erotic library: the poetry shelf
- Sir Richard Burton's orientalist erotica: The thousand night and The perfumed garden
- Schopenhaur and Montaigne, philosophy and sex
- Desire and sex in Buenos Aires: Borges's poetry on the arrabal
- Stoicism and Borges's writing of women
- "Emma Zunz": sex, virtue, and punishment
- "La intrusa": incest and gay readings
- Conclusions.