Other Inquisitions 1937 1952

by Jorge Luis Borges

Other Inquisitions 1937 1952

Author: Jorge Luis Borges

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Page: 205

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This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures as Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Valéry, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka. With extraordinary grace and erudition, he ranges in time, place, and subject from Omar Khayyam to Joseph Conrad, from ancient China to modern England, from world revolution to contemporary slang.

Do the Americas Have a Common Literature

by Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Jorge Luis Borges , “ From Someone to Nobody , " in Other Inquisitions , 1937 –
1952 , trans . Ruth L . C . Simms ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1965 ) , 148 .
All subsequent quotations from Borges ' s essays are taken from this edition ...

Do the Americas Have a Common Literature

Author: Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press

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Page: 394

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This volume takes an important step toward the discovery of a common critical heritage that joins the diverse literatures of North America and Latin America. Traditionally, literary criticism has treated the literature of the Americas as “New World” literature, examining it in relation to its “Old World”—usually European—counterparts. This collection of essays redirects the Eurocentric focus of earlier scholarship and identifies a distinctive pan-American consciousness. The essays here place the literature of the Americas in a hemispheric context by drawing on approaches derived from various schools of contemporary critical thought—Marxism, feminism, culture studies, semiotics, reception aesthetics, and poststructuralism. As part of their search for a distinctly New World literary idiom, the contributors engage not only the major North American and Spanish American writers, but also such “marginal” or “minor” literatures as Chicano, African American, Brazilian, and Québecois. In identifying areas of agreement and confluence, this work lays the groundwork for finding historical, ideological, and cultural homogeneity in the imaginative writing of the Americas. Contributors. Lois Parkinson Zamora, David T. Haberly, José David Saldívar, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, José Piedra, Doris Sommer, Enrico Mario Santí, Eduardo González, John Irwin, Wendy B. Faris, René Prieto, Jonathan Monroe, Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Modernity as Exception and Miracle

by Eduardo Sabrovsky

Plato, Phaedrus, trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff ( Indianapolis:
Hackett, 1995), 79. 23. Jorge Luis Borges, “From Allegories to Novels,” in Other
Inquisitions: 1937–1952, trans. Ruth L. C. Simms (Austin: University of Texas
Press, ...

Modernity as Exception and Miracle

Author: Eduardo Sabrovsky

Publisher: Suny Press

ISBN: 1438479158

Page: 224

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Translated from the Spanish De lo extraordinario: Nominalismo y Modernidad, this book argues that a defining aspect of modernity is an ever-increasing pursuit of, and need for, what Eduardo Sabrovsky calls "the extraordinary," a term that encompasses both the exception and the miraculous. Sabrovsky shows the degree to which Robert Musil's novel The Man without Qualities functions as a paradoxical paradigm of the extraordinary, and he extends the theoretical insights drawn from Musil's magisterial work through a series of inquiries into cardinal elements of modern literature, material culture, historiography, physical science, psychoanalysis, and political theory. Sabrovsky demonstrates how the extraordinary condition of modernity emerges from the debates conducted by the last representatives of medieval scholasticism in which nominalism defeated realism, and he resituates the results of this triumph of nominalism in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille, among others.

Metagnosis

by Danielle Spencer

Philosophy & Public Affairs 5, no. 1 (Autumn 1975): 49–68. Borges, Jorge Luis. “
The Analytical Language of John Wilkins.” In Other Inquisitions 1937–1952,
translated by Ruth L. C. Simms, 101–5. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.

Metagnosis

Author: Danielle Spencer

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 0197510760

Page: 392

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Bridging memoir with key concepts in narratology, philosophy and history of medicine, and disability studies, this book identifies and names the phenomenon of metagnosis: the experience of learning in adulthood of a longstanding condition. It can occur when the condition has remained undetected (e.g. colorblindness) and/or when the diagnostic categories themselves have shifted (e.g. ADHD). More broadly, it can occur with unexpected revelations bearing upon selfhood, such as surprising genetic test results. Though this phenomenon has received relatively scant attention, learning of an unknown condition is often a significant and bewildering revelation, one that subverts narrative expectations and customary categories. How do we understand these revelations? In addressing this topic Danielle Spencer approaches narrative medicine as a robust research methodology comprising interdisciplinarity, narrative attentiveness, and the creation of writerly texts. Beginning with Spencer's own experience, the book explores the issues raised by metagnosis, from communicability to narrative intelligibility to different ways of seeing. Next, it traces the distinctive metagnostic narrative arc through the stages of recognition, subversion, and renegotiation, discussing this trajectory in light of a range of metagnostic experiences-from Blade Runner to real-world mid-life diagnoses. Finally, it situates metagnosis in relation to genetic revelations and the broader discourses concerning identity. Spencer proposes that better understanding metagnosis will not simply aid those directly affected, but will serve as a bellwether for how we will all navigate advancing biomedical and genomic knowledge, and how we may fruitfully interrogate the very notion of identity.

Architecture and Literature

by Muscoe Martin

Jorge Luis Borges , Other Inquisitions , 1937 – 1952 ( New York : Washington
Square , 1966 ) 201 . The second tendency - the assumption that the number of
fables or metaphors is limited - is the subject of my book Versiones / inversiones
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Architecture and Literature

Author: Muscoe Martin

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

ISBN: 9780847854516

Page: 159

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Jorge Luis Borges , Other Inquisitions , 1937-1952 ( New York : Washington
Square , 1966 ) 201. The second tendency - the assumption that the number of
fables or metaphors is limited - is the subject of my book Versiones / inversiones
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An Artificial Wilderness

by Sven Birkerts

Another Life . New York : Farrar , Straus & Giroux , 1973 . Sea Grapes . New York
: Farrar , Straus & Giroux , 1976 . ... Borges ' s many translated collections of
fiction , he has also written essays — Other Inquisitions , 1937 – 1952 — and
poetry ...

An Artificial Wilderness

Author: Sven Birkerts

Publisher: William Morrow & Company

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Page: 430

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Sven Birkerts explores the impacts of two world wars and the collapse of the assumption of Humanism on a diverse group of modern writers, bringing to light the aspect of a world literature promoting an international perspective. Photographs.

Studies in short fiction

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Although Jorge Borges ' praise for the story in Other Inquisitions 1937 - 1952 ,
ranking it superior to The Scarlet Letter , 1 may seem extreme , it indicates the
strong power over its readers that the story has always held . Several critics have
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Studies in short fiction

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Varieties of Magic Realism

by Clark M. Zlotchew

Other Inquisitions 1937 - 1952 . Trans . Ruth L . C . Simms . Austin : University of
Texas Press , 1964 . Otras inquisiciones . Buenos Aires : Emecé , 1960 . Denevi ,
Marco . Ceremonia secreta y otros cuentos de Marco Denevi . Ed . Donald A ...

Varieties of Magic Realism

Author: Clark M. Zlotchew

Publisher: Academic Press Ene

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Page: 186

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A Collection of Essays for college courses such as: Magical Realism in Latin America. Spanish-American Fiction: XXth Century; Special Topics: Jorge Luis Borges and Sex and Magic in Latin American Literature. The term "magic realism" or "magical realism" has been bruited about with great frequency in the last half of the twentieth century, especially in reference to contemporary Latin American literature, yet it is not always clear exactly what is meant by this designation. In his introduction to this outstanding collection of essays, Dr. Clark Zlotchew attempts to elucidate the meaning and scope of the term by providing a historical overview of it, defining the literary modes often confused with it and offering some current opinions on what a definition of "magic realism" should or might be. The ten essays that follow present an analysis of works by writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Ricci, Antonio Brailovsky and Enrique Jaramillo Levi, in an attempt to illustrate the manner in which some Latin American authors create their own brand of "magic realism".

Naming the Rose

by M. Thomas Inge

Borges , “ From Allegories to Novels , ” in Other Inquisitions : 1937 – 1952 , trans .
R . C . Simms ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 1964 ) , 157 . 14 . Umberto Eco
and G . B . Zorzoli , A Pictorial History of Inventions from Plow to Polaris , trans ...

Naming the Rose

Author: M. Thomas Inge

Publisher: Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi

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Page: 206

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Hispanic Literature Criticism Allende to Jim nez

by Jelena O. Krstovic

... as Fictions , 1965 ) El Aleph ( short stories ) 1949 ( The Aleph and Other
Stories , 1933 – 1969 ( revised edition ) , 1970 ] Otras inquisiciones , 1937 –
1952 ( essays ) 1952 ( Other Inquisitions , 1937 – 1952 , 1964 ) Obras completas
. 10 vols .

Hispanic Literature Criticism Allende to Jim nez

Author: Jelena O. Krstovic

Publisher: Gale Research International, Limited

ISBN: 9780810393752

Page: 1417

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Hispanic literature criticism presents a selection of the best criticism of works by major Hispanic writers of the past one hundred years.

Reference Guide to Short Fiction

by St James Press

1947 . Aspectos de la literatura gauchesca . 1950 . Antiguas literaturas
germánicas , with Delia Ingenieros . 1951 . Otras inquisiciones 1937 – 1952 .
1952 ; as Other Inquisitions 1937 - 1952 , 1964 . El Martin Fierro , with Margarita
Guerrero .

Reference Guide to Short Fiction

Author: St James Press

Publisher: Saint James Press

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Page: 1052

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Devoted to those practitioners of the art of short fiction, this new 2nd edition offers thorough coverage of approximately 375 authors and 400 of their works. In a single volume, Reference Guide to Short Fiction features often-studied authors from around the world and throughout history, all selected for inclusion by a board of experts in the field. Reference Guide to Short Fiction is divided into two sections for easy study. The first section profiles the authors and offers personal and career details, as well as complete bibliographical information. A signed essay helps readers understand more about the author. These authors are covered: -- Sandra Cisneros -- Nikolai Gogol -- Ernest Hemingway -- Langston Hughes -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Salman Rushdie -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Edith Somerville -- Eudora Welty -- And others Section two helps readers gain deeper understanding of the authors and the genre with critical essays discussing 400 important works, including: -- "The Hitchiking Game", Milan Kundera -- "The Swimmer", John Cheever -- "The Dead", James Joyce -- "A Hunger Artist", Franz Kafka -- "How I Met My Husband", Alice Munro -- "Kew Gardens", Virginia Woolf This one-stop guide also provides easy access to works through the title index.

Contemporary Literary Criticism

by Sharon K. Hall

... [The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969 (revised edition), 1970] Otras
inquisiciones, 1937-1952 (essays) 1952 [Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952, 1964]
Obras completas. 10 vols. (essays, short stories, and poetry) 1953-67 Manual de
zoología ...

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Author: Sharon K. Hall

Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9780810344181

Page: 626

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Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.