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" Borges, Buddhism and world literature : "
Dominique Jullien.
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BL
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860410
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Jullien, Dominique.
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Borges, Buddhism and world literature : : a morphology of renunciation tales /\ Dominique Jullien.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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Literatures of the Americas
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1 online resource
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3030047172
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3030047164
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9783030047160
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A Borgesian morphology: renunciation, morphology, and world literature -- A lesson for the king: renunciation and politics -- From ascetic to poet: poetic renunciation -- Modernity's enigmatic parables of renunciation -- Conclusion: renunciation stories and wandering kings.
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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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Comparative literature.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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Literature-- History and criticism.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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Comparative literature.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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Literary studies: from c 1900.
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
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Literature.
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Literature: history criticism.
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868.6209
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PQ7797.B635J85 2019
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