Borges and Space

Overview:

  • Title: Borges and Space
  • Author: Bill Richardson
  • Year: 2012
  • ISBN-10: 9783034302463
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
  • Pages: 256
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Borges and Space
  • Notes: TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Acknowledgements
    Introduction

    Chapter 1. Aleph
    Chapter 2. City
    Poetry and Cityscape
    Death, a Compass and Human Spatiality
    Immortality and the Timeless City
    Chapter 3. Deixis
    Deixis and Space
    The Warrior and the Englishwoman Change Sides
    Location, Death, and the Labyrinth of Ibn-Ḥakam
    Space, Time and Identity in the Garden of Forking Paths
    Chapter 4. Identity
    We are where we are—in the South
    Argentine Locations and the Marking of Identity
    Chapter 5. Power
    Representational Space and the Magic Ruins
    The Movements of a Would-be Wizard
    Power, Powerlessness and Political Space
    Chapter 6. Cosmos
    Babel and the Limits of the Universe
    Otherworldliness and Tlön
    Epilogue
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index