Borges, Language and Reality : The Transcendence of the Word Hardback
Edited by Alfonso J. Garcia-Osuna
Part of the Literatures of the Americas series
Hardback
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This book brings together the work of several scholars to shed light on the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges' complex relationship with language and reality.
A critical assumption driving the work is that there is, as Jaime Alazraki has put it, 'a genuine effort to overcome the narrowness that Western tradition has imposed as a master and measure of reality' in Borges' writing.
That narrowness is in large measure a consequence of the chronic influence of positivist approaches to reality that rely on empirical evidence for any authentication of what is 'real'.
This study shows that, in opposition to such restrictions, Borges saw in fiction, in literature, the most viable means of discussing reality in a pragmatic manner.
Moreover, by scrutinising several of the author's works, it establishes signposts for considering the truly complicated relationship that Borges had with reality, one that intimately associates the 'real' with human perception,insight and language.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:145 pages, XII, 145 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:07/12/2018
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- ISBN:9783319959115
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:145 pages, XII, 145 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:07/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319959115
