Borges, Buddhism and World Literature : A Morphology of Renunciation Tales / / by Dominique Jullien
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| Autore: |
Jullien Dominique
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| Titolo: |
Borges, Buddhism and World Literature : A Morphology of Renunciation Tales / / by Dominique Jullien
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XXV, 126 p. 1 illus.) |
| Disciplina: | 800.098 |
| 868.6209 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Latin American literature |
| Comparative literature | |
| Literature, Modern - 20th century | |
| Latin American/Caribbean Literature | |
| Comparative Literature | |
| Twentieth-Century Literature | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction: Leaving the Palace -- 2. A Borgesian Morphology: Renunciation, Morphology and World Literature -- 3. A Lesson for the 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Borges, Buddhism and World Literature |
| ISBN: | 3-030-04717-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910733707503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Literatures of the Americas, . 2634-6028