Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar

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Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar

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P. Lang
Language
English
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204

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Table of Contents

Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation
Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph"
Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares"
The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco"
The infinite book : fear and longing
Place as displacement in Rayuela
Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in 19th Century novels
Borges' voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires
Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds
The carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation
Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as no- placement
Fictional and real places in Borges and Cortázar's works
The "exotic" or/and the "familiar": Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia
Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in Modelo para armar
Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges' "La casa de Asterion"
Boarding the ship: the inresloved mystery of Cortázar's Malcolm
Displacement, dream and archive in Borges' essays
Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in El sueno de Coleridge
The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in La muralla y los libros
Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges' La muralla y los libros and in Franz Kafka's The Great Wall of China
Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories
Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent in Lejana
Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self in La puerta condenada
Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception in Cartas de mama.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ;, v. 151

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
868/.6209
Library of Congress
PQ7797.B635 Z933 2006, PQ7797.B635 Z933 2008, PQ7797.B635Z933 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
204

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Open Library
OL3408384M
ISBN 10
0820463957
LCCN
2005024268
OCLC/WorldCat
61512968
Goodreads
1647730

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