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Borges, Buddhism and world literature : a morphology of renunciation tales
- 作者： Jullien, Dominique, author.
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- Literatures of the Americas.
- 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- 叢書名： Literatures of the Americas
- 主題： Comparative literature. , Literature--History and criticism. , Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. , Latin American/Caribbean Literature. , Comparative Literature. , Twentieth-Century Literature.
- ISBN： 9783030047177 (electronic bk.) 、 9783030047160 (paper)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: 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.
- 摘要註: 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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- 系統號： 005448721 | 機讀編目格式
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