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Borges, Buddhism and World Literature

A Morphology of Renunciation Tales

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Palgrave Macmillan


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Literatures of the Americas

Paru le : 2019-01-04



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This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its cross-cultural adaptability and metamorphic nature, and because it resonated so powerfully across philosophy, politics and aesthetics. From the story and its many variants, Borges’s essays formulated a 'morphological' conception of literature (borrowing the idea from Goethe), whereby a potentially infinite number of stories were generated by transformation of a finite number of 'archetypes'. The king-and-ascetic encounter also tells a powerful political story, setting up a confrontation between power and authority; Borges’s own political predicament is explored against the rich background of truth-telling renouncers. In its poetic variant, the renunciationarchetype morphs into stories about art and artists, with renunciation a key requirement of the creative process: the discussion weaves in and out of Borges to highlight modern writers’ debt to asceticism. Ultimately, the enigmatic appeal of the renunciation story aligns it with the open-endedness of modern parables.
Pages
126 pages
Collection
Literatures of the Americas
Parution
2019-01-04
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783030047160
EAN PDF
9783030047177
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1
Nombre pages imprimables
12
Taille du fichier
2038 Ko
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52,74 €
EAN EPUB
9783030047177
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
12
Taille du fichier
1270 Ko
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