Borges's Poe : the influence and reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America

Borges's Poe : the influence and reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America /

Edgar Allan Poe?s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the R?o de la Plata region of South America·Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cort?zar. In Borges?s Poe , Emron Esplin foc...

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Main Author: Esplin, Emron (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2016
Series:New southern studies.
Subjects:
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation > History > 20th century.
Borges, Jorge Luis, > 1899-1986 > Criticism and interpretation.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Influence.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Appreciation > Latin America.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: reciprocal influence
  • Renaming Poe: Jorge Luis Borges's literary criticism on Edgar Allan Poe
  • Borges's philosophy of Poe's composition
  • Reading and rereading
  • Translating Poe: Jorge Luis Borges's Edgar Allan Poe translations
  • Theory, practice, and Pym
  • Facts and an envelope
  • Rewriting Poe: Jorge Luis Borges's Poe-influenced and Poe-influencing short fiction
  • Buried connections
  • Supernatural revenge
  • Epilogue: commemorative reframing.

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