Reading Borges Ethically Hennum, Shea
Journal of modern literature,
09/2022, Volume:
46, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Although critics and lay readers have understood Jorge Luis Borges as an asocial and abstract thinker, their position has produced a reductive conception of Borges that obscures his most original ...aesthetic and philosophical ideas. Reconsidering Borges through three of his most famous stories--"The Garden of Forking Paths" "A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain" and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"--reveals a philosophy of reading that, in classic Borges fashion, doubles as a philosophy of ethics. Understanding these philosophies as one and the same makes possible a fresh view of Borges's aesthetic games and his interest in human interaction.
A recurring element in Ricardo Piglia's poetics is the inherent relationship between literary criticism and fiction, with regards to the various discursive registers in his work, which brings ...together discursive genres such as the prologue, the diary, the interview, television classes or the arguments about literature made by characters in his novels. This article analyzes this relationship by examining the thirteen prologues Piglia wrote for Serie del Recienvenido between 2012 and 2015, through an approach that focuses on its use of the combinative process. This allows us to return and revise discussions about literary tradition and renewal.
The article explores the poetics of clipping in a set of texts published in the "Museo" section y Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, in Destiempo (1936-1937) and Los Anales de Buenos Aires ...(1946-1948) y Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. The manipulation of texts can be linked to modern clipping technology, which responded to the need for brevity, a requirement of the press, as well as literary and editorial procedures implemented in the recovery of texts from the most diverse supports and that enable to think about cutting as rewriting and reinterpretation (Thérenty, 2012; Viu, 2019). Under the name of "Museo", the published texts are inserted in the semantic field of exhibition and conservation. Regarding the first, it will be analyzed the visuality of the texts. Regarding the second, the strategies of its collection will be studied (Guelfi Campos, 2019). Finally, we will study the new writing modalities that generate fragmentation and synthesis. We hypothesize that these cut poetics diluted the role of the writer as the sole author and implied an intervention on genres.
Este artículo se propone indagar sobre los procedimientos ensayísticos de “La poesía gauchesca” de Jorge Luis Borges, haciendo hincapié en la lectura del ensayo como forma, el problema de los ...comienzos y los avatares del proceso de escritura. Se recurrió a los trabajos de Alberto Giordano (2005, 2015, 2017), Julio Premat (2012) y Annick Louis (2014) como marco teórico para problematizar las cuestiones mencionadas. Además, se realizó una lectura comparada de las diversas versiones que finalmente terminaron por conformar el ensayo tal como lo conocemos actualmente. Entre los numerosos cambios que arrojó la lectura comparada, el reemplazo de la palabra “saber” por “experimentar” es de crucial importancia en tanto
pone en sintonía la práctica borgeana con ciertos aportes de la teoría literaria de la segunda mitad del S. XX.Con la finalidad estipulada y mediante los aportes teóricos apelados, se llegó a la conclusión de que la desestabilización de la noción de origen resulta muy productiva para poner en relieve las maniobras ensayísticas borgeanas desarrolladas a lo largo del artículo y resumidas en el apartado final.
This article argues that adoptionism is an anachronistic category when used to describe texts from the first three Christian centuries, a mirage created by later theological controversies about the ...relationship between the Father and the Son. I survey the evidence for second- and third-century figures and texts generally identified ‘adoptionist’ in order to show that these figures do not advocate a shared christological stance. Instead, we find a variety of distinct postures that disagree with both each other and with common scholarly definitions of adoptionism. Although metaphors of adoption were theologically productive in early Christianity, to identify early Christian figures, texts and movements as adoptionist implies a theological unity that does not exist. The category itself is a problem. Not only are historical adoptionists absent, but early Christian metaphors of adoption and divine sonship functioned within diverse articulations of Jesus’ identity which do not map onto modern definitions.
RESUMO O presente artigo parte de uma crítica cultural computacional para analisar as práticas de leitura ao longo da pandemia pela COVID-19 por meio do uso do Twitter. Analisam-se tweets com ...referências a dois autores, Clarice Lispector e Jorge Luis Borges, os quais foram extraídos e analisados utilizando softwares de mineração de texto. Esses autores foram mobilizados em dois sentidos principais: em um sentido terapêutico, modo de lidar com a solidão e o sofrimento, e para processar as transformações sociais e coletivas, expressando apoio ou oposição às políticas dos governos ante a COVID-19. O trabalho conclui que as práticas de leitura desses autores colocaram em cena os modos múltiplos de viver a pandemia e deram forma à experiência subjetiva e coletiva.
RESUMEN El presente artículo parte de una crítica cultural computacional para analizar las prácticas de lectura durante la pandemia de COVID-19 a través del uso de Twitter. Se analizan tweets con referencia a dos autores, Clarice Lispector e Jorge Luis Borges, los cuales fueron extraídos y analizados utilizando softwares de mineración textual. El artículo demuestra que los autores fueron movilizados en dos sentidos diferentes: en un sentido terapéutico, modo de lidiar con la soledad y el sufrimiento, y también para procesar las transformaciones sociales y colectivas, expresando apoyo u oposición a las políticas de los gobiernos ante el COVID-19. El trabajo concluye que las prácticas de estos autores pusieron en escena los modos múltiples de vivir la pandemia de COVID-19 y dieron forma a la experiencia subjetiva y colectiva.
ABSTRACT This article follows a computational cultural criticism to analyse the reading practices on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses tweets that reference Jorge Luis Borges and Clarice Lispector, which were extracted and analysed using textual mining tools. The article demonstrates that both authors were mobilized in two different senses: in a therapeutic sense, as a way to deal with loneliness and suffering, and also to process collective and social transformations, expressing support or criticism of governmental politics dealing with COVID-19. In those ways, the article shows that reading practices on Twitter reveal the multiples ways in which people experienced the pandemic, and shaped collective and subjective experience.
This paper reads two texts, 'The Argentine Writer and Tradition' by Jorge Luis Borges and Monolingualism of the Other by Jacques Derrida, to examine the tension between singularity and specificity in ...comparative work, particularly in comparisons between Jewishness and postcoloniality. 'Singularity' is understood here as uniqueness, while 'specificity' is the factors that define that uniqueness. Borges' text serves as an example of the potential pitfalls of comparative work that is inconsistent in its recognition of singularity and specificity. Borges affords Jewish writers singularity, but not specificity, and so ends up denying the very elements of Jewish culture his argument appears to valorise, at the expense of his celebration of the postcolonial condition. Borges' comparison therefore undermines its own logic. Derrida, meanwhile, appears to exaggerate one particular colonised Jewish community's exceptionality, but through this apparent focus on the specificity of one group at the expense of others, offers a potential model for how to work comparatively yet still recognise the specificity of multiple groups.
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