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Rare and modern books

Borges Jorge Luis , (Editor) Martin Arias, (Editor) Martin Hadis

Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

New Directions, 2013,

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Author
Borges Jorge Luis , (Editor) Martin Arias, (Editor) Martin Hadis
Publishers
New Directions, 2013
Cover description
As New
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

8vo, cloth in dj 306 pages. "A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings' kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the book traverses a landscape of 'precursors, 'cross-cultural borrowings, and genres of expression, all connected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of Borges's works to have appeared posthumously."Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's lectures -- delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition -- bring the canon to remarkably vivid life. Now translated into English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Martin Arias and Martin Hadis.