Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
P. Lang,
c2008.
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| Series: | Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ;
v. 151. |
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Table of Contents:
- Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation
- Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph"
- Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares"
- The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco"
- The infinite book : fear and longing
- Place as displacement in Cortázar's Hopscotch
- Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels
- Borges's voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires
- Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds
- The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation
- Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement"
- Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences
- The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia
- Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar
- Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion"
- Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cortázar's "Malcolm"
- Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays
- Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sueño de Coleridge"
- The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros"
- Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China"
- Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories
- Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent
- Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self
- Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception.