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100 1 _aJenckes, Kate.
245 1 0 _aReading Borges after Benjamin :
_bAllegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aAlbany :
_bState University of New York Press,
_c2007.
264 4 _c©2012.
300 _a1 online resource (188 pages)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aSUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture Series
505 0 _aIntro -- 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.
520 _aTogether with original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges's works as allegories of Argentine modernity.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aJenckes, Kate
_tReading Borges after Benjamin
_dAlbany : State University of New York Press,c2007
_z9780791469897
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aSUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3407434
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