Humor in Borges / by Costa, René de

Invisible work : Borges and translation / by Kristal, Efraín, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Borges on translation -- The translatable and the untranslatable -- On the translation of his own works -- The Arnold-Newman discussion -- On the Arabian Nights -- Borges's doctine of translation -- Borges as translator -- German expressionism -- Whitman and the translation of poetry -- Poe -- Reyes and Chesterton -- Translating names and titles -- Borges's Arabian stories -- Kafka, the fragment, and the dream -- The prose edda -- Borges's method as translator -- Translation in the creative process -- Atlin, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius -- "The Immortal" -- "Death and the Compass" -- "Emma Zunz" -- " Garden of Forking Ruins" -- The Circular Ruins" -- "The Writing of the God" -- "The Lottery in Babylon" -- Original works in translation -- Toward a poetics of Borges's Oeare -- Conclusion.…”
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Jorge Luis Borges in context /

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Borges, the Jew / by Stavans, Ilan

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Borges' classics : global encounters with the Graeco-Roman past / by Jansen, Laura, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Frontispiece; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Borges' Life and Works; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Borges' Classical Revisions; A Rumour of Homer; Pierre Menard's Odyssey and Aeneid; Zeno after Kafka; Classical Memory and Forgetfulness; Classical Absences and Desires; Classics at the Crossroads: Towards a Global Vision; Key Terms and Concepts; Aims and Scope of the Book; Chapter 2 The Flow of Heraclitus; Borgesian Time and the Classics; Heraclitean Receptions…”
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