Humor in Borges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
Rene de Costa shows how Borges was concerned with making the embedded humor in his work more apparent without abandoning the essential story line. De Costa examines the ways in which Borges transformed established modes of writing -- the chronicle, the book review, the obituary, the detective story -- into genre parodies. He looks at Borges's canonical collections, identifying the humor in such simple things as a footnote, a false epigraph, or a postscript. He also considers the Universal History of Infamy and the techniques Borges used to rework serious stories and poems into overt comedy that ridiculed the notion of high and low culture.
Humor in Borges couples elegant scholarship with a comedic edge and is both accessible and enjoyable to read. Scholars and students of twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature will delight in this fascinating look at laughter in the work of Jorge Luis Borges.
Seller | Condition | Comments | Price |
sequiturbooks
|
Like New |
$27.95
|
|
Sequitur Books
Like New
|
$31.45
|
Ergodebooks
|
Good |
$32.89
|