Edgar Allan Poe?s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the R?o de la Plata region of South America·Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cort?zar. In Borges?s P…
Most scholarship that couples Poe and Borges focuses primarily on each writer's detective stories, refers only occasionally to their critical writings and the remainder of their fiction, and deemphasizes the cultural context in which Borges interprets Poe. In this book, Esplin e…
Edgar Allan Poe?s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the R?o de la Plata region of South America·Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cort?zar. In Borges?s P…
"Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery studies the importance of translation for Borges and the importance of Borges for translation. Sergio Waisman demonstrates the extent to which Borges's ideas about translation lie at the core of his aesthetics, from his e…
"Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery studies the importance of translation for Borges and the importance of Borges for translation. Sergio Waisman demonstrates the extent to which Borges's ideas about translation lie at the core of his aesthetics, from his e…
Presents an English translation of a selection of non-fiction writings by twentieth-century Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, including essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and political and cultural notes.