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Out of Context : Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges /

In Jorge Luis Borges's finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history--in short, to reality. Out of Context corrects this shortsighted view and reveals the very real basis of the Argentin...

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Autor principal: Balderston, Daniel, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1993.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Introduction: History, Politics, and Literature in Borges -- Menard and His Contemporaries: The Arms and Letters Debate -- The "Labyrinth of Trenches without Any Plan" in "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan" -- Prague, March 1939: Recovering the Historicity of "El milagro secreto" -- Cryptogram and Scripture: Losing Count in "La escritura del dios" -- Going Native: Beyond Civilization and Savagery in "Historia del guerrero y de la cautiva" -- On the Threshold of Otherness: British India in "El hombre en el umbral" -- Behind Closed Doors: The Guayaquil Meeting and the Silences of History -- Conclusion. 
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