| 期刊全称 | Borges, Buddhism and World Literature | | 期刊简称 | A Morphology of Renu | | 影响因子2023 | Dominique Jullien | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Breaks new ground by contextualizing the vital link between Buddhism and Borges’s theory of literature.Offers a new way of thinking about the Borgesian features of contemporary writing.Appeals to read | | 学科分类 | Literatures of the Americas | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | 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 renunciationarchetype 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 asceti | | Pindex | Book 2019 |
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