Borges' Short Stories: ss
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 233 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This guide offers a close reading of ten of Borges' short stories, bringing out the logic that has made his work so influential. It analyses key terms in Borges' works and Borges' particular narrative strategies. It sets his work within its wider literary, cultural and intellectual contexts.;Contexts -- Reading the short stories : the labyrinthine -- Reading the short stories : the Borgesian -- Reading the short stories : infinity and one -- Reading the short stories : fictions -- Reception and influence -- Annotated bibliography.
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