Borges' Short Stories by Rex Butler

Borges' Short Stories by Rex Butler

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A guide to ten of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' best-known and widely studied short stories. It offers an analysis of such key terms in Borges' work as 'labyrinth' and the 'infinite' and analyses Borges' particular narrative strategies.

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Borges' Short Stories by Rex Butler

A guide to ten of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' best-known and widely studied short stories. It offers an analysis of such key terms in Borges' work as 'labyrinth' and the 'infinite' and analyses Borges' particular narrative strategies.
‘This is the most up-to-date study thus far of Borges's place in contemporary cultureThe influence exerted by the Argentine master on literature and criticism stretches far and wide over three continents, and Rex Butler does a fine job of tracing in detail a rich and ongoing legacy.' - Gene H. Bell-Villada, Williams College, USA, author of Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art
Rex Butler is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia. His previous publications include Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (Sage, 1999).
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ISBN 13 9780826452139
ISBN 10 0826452132
Title Borges' Short Stories
Author Rex Butler
Series Reader's Guides
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2010-01-21
Number of pages 160
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