Borges's Poe : the influence and reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America /
Edgar Allan Poe?s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the R?o de la Plata region of South America·Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cort?zar. In Borges?s Poe , Emron Esplin foc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | New southern studies.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
| Summary: | Edgar Allan Poe?s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the R?o de la Plata region of South America·Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cort?zar. In Borges?s Poe , Emron Esplin focuses on the second author in this trio and argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe?s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe?s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer. Most scholarship th. |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780820349046 0820349046 |
