Borges, Jorge Luis

This project is a narratological study of the border between fiction and reality, and the traversing thereof. I postulate that the permeability of this border is the consequence of textual acts: Cataloged Fabulations, Second-tier Fictionals, and Rhizomatic Fabrications. These ar…

This dissertation focuses on the multiplicity of identity in twentieth-century world literature as a solution to the questions aesthetic philosopher Dick Higgins asks: “Which world is this? What is to be done in it? Which of my selves is to do it?” Brian McHale argues in Postmod…

This study is a comparative analysis of four contemporary authors who have claimed The Thousand and One Nights as their favorite text: Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, John Barth, and Salman Rushdie. These authors also share an interest in the process of narrativity and concern…

By analyzing the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Arlt, and Jorge Cuesta, I address the relationship between literature and politics in the 1920s and 30s in Argentina and Mexico. Drawing on the work of Jacques Rancière, I argue that these writers bring about a change in the vi…