Borges the unacknowledged Medievalist : Old English and Old Norse in his life and work / M.J. Towell.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), the twentieth-century writer who thoroughly captured the alienation and suffering of the modern individual, is often credited as the great progenitor of postmodernism. However, he was fascinated by northern Germanic medievalism and Old English and Old Norse texts, whic...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Basingstoke] :
Palgrave Pivot,
2014.
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| Series: | New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Summary: | Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), the twentieth-century writer who thoroughly captured the alienation and suffering of the modern individual, is often credited as the great progenitor of postmodernism. However, he was fascinated by northern Germanic medievalism and Old English and Old Norse texts, which he loved and read as much as possible in the original. The influence of these materials on his life and work has gone largely unnoticed: this book redresses the balance and looks at the medieval underpinnings of Borges' very modern angst and solipsistic misery. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781137444479 1137444479 |
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