Reading Borges after Benjamin : Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History.

Intro -- Reading Borges after Benjamin -- Contents -- 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 -- Carriego Is (Not) Carriego -- The Paradoxes of Biography -- Violence, Life, and Law -- "Generous" Duels -- 3. Allegory, Ideology, Infamy: Allegories of History in Historia Universalde 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z.

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.

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