| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The new Middle Ages |
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Contents |
1. The Germanic Medievalism of Borges' Life -- 2. Borges the Poet -- 3. Borges the Scholar and Writer -- 4. Borges the Fabulist -- 5. Borges' Medievalism |
| Summary |
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), the twentieth-century writer who thoroughly captured the alienation and suffering of the modern individual, is often credited as the great progenitor of postmodernism. However, he was fascinated by northern Germanic medievalism and Old English and Old Norse texts, which he loved and read as much as possible in the original. The influence of these materials on his life and work has gone largely unnoticed: this book redresses the balance and looks at the medieval underpinnings of Borges' very modern angst and solipsistic misery |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Publisher supplied information; title not viewed |
| Subject |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
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| SUBJECT |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 fast |
| Subject |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137444479 |
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1137444479 |
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