Painting Borges

Painting Borges
Author: Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438441770

A provocative examination of the artistic interpretation of twelve of Borges’s most famous stories.

Norah Borges

Norah Borges
Author: Eamon McCarthy
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1786836319

This is the first book to give an overview of Norah Borges’s artistic output as whole. This is important as other studies have limited themselves to her work as an illustrator or have focussed wholly on her early works. It contains 30 images of her work, which will allow readers to gain a sense of the changes in her style. This is the first book-length study of Norah Borges to be written in English, which opens up her works to a non Spanish-speaking audience for the first time.

Reading Borges after Benjamin

Reading Borges after Benjamin
Author: Kate Jenckes
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0791480569

This book explores the relationship between time, life, and history in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and examines his work in relation to his contemporary, Walter Benjamin. By focusing on texts from the margins of the Borges canon—including the early poems on Buenos Aires, his biography of Argentina's minstrel poet Evaristo Carriego, the stories and translations from A Universal History of Infamy, as well as some of his renowned stories and essays—Kate Jenckes argues that Borges's writing performs an allegorical representation of history. Interspersed among the readings of Borges are careful and original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays on the relationship between life, language, and history. Reading Borges in relationship to Benjamin draws out ethical and political implications from Borges's works that have been largely overlooked by his critics.

Labyrinths

Labyrinths
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1964
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811200127

Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

Literary Philosophers

Literary Philosophers
Author: Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed)
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002
Genre: Literature
ISBN: 9780415929189

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Erik Desmazières

Erik Desmazières
Author: Maxime Préaud
Publisher: 5Continents
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788874394111

The first English-language publication on an artist considered to be the finest print maker of his generation.

A Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca

A Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca
Author: Hubert Damisch
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780804734424

Piero della Francesca's Madonna del Parto, a celebrated fifteenth-century Tuscan fresco in which the Virgin gestures to her partially open dress and her pregnant womb, is highly unusual in its iconography. Hubert Damisch undertakes an anthropological and historical analysis of an artwork he constructs as a childhood dream of one of humanity's oldest preoccupations, the mysteries of our origins, of our conception and birth. At once parodying and paying homage to Freud's seminal essay on Leonardo da Vinci, Damisch uses Piero's enigmatic painting to narrate our archaic memories. He shows that we must return to Freud because work in psychoanalysis and art has not solved the problem of what is being analyzed: in the triangle of author, work, and audience, where is the psychoanalytic component located?

Borges, the Jew

Borges, the Jew
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2016-05-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438461445

Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016 In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual Ilan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges's fascination with Jewish culture. Despite not being Jewish himself, Borges wrote essays, poems, and stories dealing with various aspects of Jewish history and culture—from the Holocaust to Kabbalah and from Franz Kafka to the creation of the State of Israel. In periods when anti-Semitism in Argentina was on the rise, Borges was clear in his refutation of such xenophobia, and when Jewish writers were hardly available in Spanish, he was among the first to translate them. Throughout Stavans's discussion of these topics he weaves in personal anecdotes on reading Borges for the first time, hearing him read in Mexico, and looking for him in Buenos Aires. No fan of Borges's classic oeuvre will ever see his legacy in the same way after reading this book.

The Philosophical Legacy of Jorge J. E. Gracia

The Philosophical Legacy of Jorge J. E. Gracia
Author: Robert A. Delfino
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2022-01-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1538149613

Fleeing Cuba in 1961, Jorge J. E. Gracia arrived in the USA at the age of nineteen without family and unable to speak English. Ten years later he was assistant professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Over the next 50 years Gracia published dozens of books and hundreds of articles, making major contributions to numerous areas of philosophy: Latin American philosophy, race and ethnicity, Medieval philosophy, philosophical historiography, metaphysics and ontology, and theory of interpretation. This book is a critical response to Gracia’s work and a tribute to his legacy. It includes a comprehensive bibliography of Gracia’s philosophical works.