num_pages: 306
description: In English at last Borgess erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar WildeWriting for Harpers Magazine Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges: A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde the book traverses a landscape of precursors cross-cultural borrowings and genres of expression all connected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of Borgess works to have appeared posthumously.Borges takes us on a startling idiosyncratic fresh and highly opinionated tour of English literature weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borgess lectures  delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition  bring the canon to remarkably vivid life. Now translated into English for the first time these lectures are accompanied by extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Martn Arias and Martn Hadis.
language: English
title: Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
publisher: New Directions