Professor Borges

A Course On English Literature

Jorge Luis Borges, Katherine Silver, Martín Arias , Martín Hadis

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English

New Directions Publishing Corporation
13 October 2014

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: general

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"Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's lectures — delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition — bring the canon to remarkably vivid life.

Now translated into English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Mart?n Arias and Mart?n Hadis.

Writing for Harper's magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges: ""A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings' kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the book traverses a landscape of 'precursors,' cross-cultural borrowings, and genres of expression, all connected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of Borges's works to have appeared posthumously."""

By: Jorge Luis Borges
Edited by: Martín Arias, Martín Hadis
Translated by: Katherine Silver
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 359g
ISBN: 9780811222747
ISBN 10: 0811222748
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 13 October 2014
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active