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UNICAMPANIASUN0012354 |
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Fioretti, Giulio |
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Sacramento : legis actio / Giulio Fioretti |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910733707503321 |
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Jullien Dominique |
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Borges, Buddhism and World Literature : A Morphology of Renunciation Tales / / by Dominique Jullien |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
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[1st ed. 2019.] |
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1 online resource (XXV, 126 p. 1 illus.) |
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Literatures of the Americas, , 2634-6028 |
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Latin American literature |
Comparative literature |
Literature, Modern - 20th century |
Latin American/Caribbean Literature |
Comparative Literature |
Twentieth-Century Literature |
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1. Introduction: Leaving the Palace -- 2. A Borgesian Morphology: Renunciation, Morphology and World Literature -- 3. A Lesson for the |
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King: Renunciation and Politics -- 4. From Ascetic to Poet: Poetic Renunciation -- 5. Modernity’s Enigmatic Parables of Renunciation -- 6. Conclusion: Renunciation Stories and Wandering Kings. |
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This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its cross-cultural adaptability and metamorphic nature, and because it resonated so powerfully across philosophy, politics and aesthetics. From the story and its many variants, Borges’s essays formulated a 'morphological' conception of literature (borrowing the idea from Goethe), whereby a potentially infinite number of stories were generated by transformation of a finite number of 'archetypes'. The king-and-ascetic encounter also tells a powerful political story, setting up a confrontation between power and authority; Borges’s own political predicament is explored against the rich background of truth-telling renouncers. In its poetic variant, the renunciation archetype morphs into stories about art and artists, with renunciation a key requirement of the creative process: the discussion weaves in and out of Borges to highlight modern writers’ debt to asceticism. Ultimately, the enigmatic appeal of the renunciation story aligns it with the open-endedness of modern parables. |
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