Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438441770
A provocative examination of the artistic interpretation of twelve of Borges’s most famous stories.
Author : Eamon McCarthy
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1786836319
Norah Borges (1901–98) was the sister of the celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. She first began producing art in Switzerland, where her family was trapped during the First World War, and travelled to Spain before returning to her native Argentina with her new styles of painting. In the 1920s, her work was published on the covers of important cultural magazines, but she is now largely forgotten. In her works, Borges created a world full of almost angelic figures – describing it as a smaller, more perfect world – mostly a serene space dominated by women. This book explores how Borges created that space and developed her own unique style of painting, studying the connections she made with the leading artists and writers of her time.
Author : Kate Jenckes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : 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.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811200127
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed)
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9780415929189
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Author : Hubert Damisch
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2007
Category : 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?
Author : Robert A. Delfino
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : 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.
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : 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.
Author : Michael Jacobs
Publisher : Granta Publications
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 1847088090
A fascinating journey through a single painting’s history, meanings and associations by “one of the great non-fiction writers of this and the last century” (Simon Schama, Financial Times). Acclaimed travel author and art historian Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velázquez’s enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the many associations suggested by each of its characters, as well as his own relationship to the work. From Jacobs’ first trip to Spain to the politics of Golden Age Madrid, to his meeting with the man who saved Las Meninas during the Spanish Civil war, to his experiences in the sunless world of the art history academy, Jacobs delivers a brilliantly discursive meditation on art and life that dissolves the barriers between the past and the present, the real and the illusory. Cut short by Jacobs’ death in 2014, and completed with an introduction and coda by his friend and fellow art lover, the journalist Ed Vulliamy, this visionary and often very funny book is a passionate, personal manifesto for the liberation of how we look at painting.
