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UNINA9910798679103321 |
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Dukes Paul <1934-> |
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The last great game: USA versus USSR : events, conjunctures, structures / / Paul Dukes |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2018 |
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1-4742-9058-2 |
1-4742-9057-4 |
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1 online resource (242 p.) |
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History and politics in the 20th century: Bloomsbury Academic collections |
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Cold War |
Soviet Union Foreign relations United States |
United States Foreign relations Soviet Union |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Part 1. Events -- Part 2. Conjunctures -- Part 3. Structures. |
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"This book is a historical reinterpretation of the Cold War in the broadest sense from the viewpoint of the late 1980s. Dukes contends that the rivalry of the USA and Soviet Union, like the Great Game between Britain and Imperial Russia, can be understood only by analysing their relationship over centuries. He adopts the explanatory model of French historian Fernand Braudel - the concepts of event, conjuncture and structure - and examines the super-power relationship in an historical context stretching back to the medieval period. He argues that the political and cultural gaps between Western and Soviet approaches at key events have stemmed from widely different experiences of these events, as well as from long-embedded traditions."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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UNINA9910372826303321 |
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De la Fuente Ariel |
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Borges, desire, and sex / / Ariel de la Fuente [[electronic resource]] |
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Liverpool University Press, 2018 |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2018 |
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1 online resource (x, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Liverpool Latin American studies, new series ; ; 18 |
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Literary Criticism / Poetry |
Literature - History and criticism |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jun 2020). |
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1. On Borges's sexuality -- 2. Biography in literature and the reading of desire and sex in Borges -- 3. Borges's erotic library: the poetry shelf -- 4. Sir Richard Burton's orientalist erotica: The Thousand Nights and a Night and The Perfumed Garden -- 5. Schopenhauer and Montaigne, philosopy and sex -- 6. Desire and sex in Buenos Aires: Borges's poetry on the Arrabal -- 7. Stoicism and Borges's writing on women -- 8. "Emma Zunz": sex virtue, and punishment -- 9. "La intrusa": incest and gay readings. |
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<p><b>An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.</b></p><br>The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most sophisticated writers of the twentieth century, suffered from sexual impotence. This emotionally overwhelming condition shaped his literary experience in ways that have not been understood. Until now Borges has largely been considered an asexual author who could not read, think, or write about desire and sex, but in this book historian Ariel de la Fuente shows that sexuality was a major preoccupation for him, both as a reader and as an author. De la Fuente has conducted an extensive literary investigation in Borges's figurative erotic library and presents for the first time a study of the relationship between Borges's sexual biography, his erotic readings, and the writing of desire and sex in his work. The author explores relevant literary questions while |
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employing a historical method and the book is truly an interdisciplinary study at the intersection of history with Latin American, European, and Eastern literatures, poetry, philosophy, and sexuality. Argued with clarity, <i>Borges, Desire, and Sex</i> offers an unexpected perspective on the literature and figure of a world-wide influential author. |
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