Jenckes Reading Borges after Benjamin

Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8056-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Together with original readings of some of Benjamin’s finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges’s works as allegories of Argentine modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jenckes, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations 1. Origins and Orillas: History, City, and Death in the Early Poems Family Trees
A Journey of No Return
Borges and His (Own) Precursors
Sepulchral Rhetoric
Life Possessions
Melancholic Fervor
The Orillas
Acts of Life 2. Bios-Graphus: Evaristo Carriego and the Limits of the Written Subject The Fallible God of the “I”
Life and Death
The Other American Poet
The Paradoxes of Biography
Carriego Is (Not) Carriego
Violence, Life, and Law
“Generous” Duels 3. Allegory, Ideology, Infamy: Allegories of History in Historia Universal de la Infamia
“National” Allegory
Ideology
Two Moments of Allegory
Infamy
Magical Endings Et Cetera 4. Reading History’s Secrets in Benjamin and Borges Historical Idealism and the Materiality of Writing
The Conquests of Time
History’s Secrets
Possession or the “Weak Force” of Redemption
Refuting Time
Ego Sum
Terrible Infinity
Recurrent Imminence
Reading, Writing, Mourning History Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kate Jenckes is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.