Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar
By: Nataly Tcherepashenets.
Series: Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ;; v. 151
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899- -- Criticism and interpretation; Cortázar, Julio -- Criticism and interpretation; Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899- -- Settings; Cortázar, Julio -- Settings; Displacement (Psychology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation; title: Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph"; title: Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares"; title: The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco"; title: The infinite book : fear and longing; title: Place as displacement in Rayuela; title: Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in 19th Century novels; title: Borges' voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires; title: Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds; title: The carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation; title: Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as no- placement; title: Fictional and real places in Borges and Cortázar's  works; title: The "exotic" or/and the "familiar": Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia; title: Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in Modelo para armar; title: Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges' "La casa de Asterion"; title: Boarding the ship: the inresloved mystery of Cortázar's Malcolm; title: Displacement, dream and archive in Borges' essays; title: Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in El sueno de Coleridge; title: The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in La muralla y los libros; title: Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges' La muralla y los libros and in Franz Kafka's The Great Wall of China; title: Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories; title: Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent in Lejana; title: Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self in La puerta condenada; title: Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception in Cartas de mama.