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Borges, Buddhism and World Literature
- A Morphology of Renunciation Tales
Engelsk Hardback

Borges, Buddhism and World Literature

- A Morphology of Renunciation Tales
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
126
ISBN-13:
9783030047160
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3030047164
Udg. Dato:
18 jan 2019
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato:
18 jan 2019
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