Borges's Poe - The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America Esplin EmronPaperback / softback
Edgar Allan Poe's image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the R o de la Plata region of South America--Uruguayan…
Specifikacia Borges's Poe - The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America Esplin EmronPaperback / softback
Edgar Allan Poe's image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the R o de la Plata region of South America--Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cort zar. In Borges's Poe, Emron Esplin focuses on the second author in this trio and argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe's works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.Most scholarship that couples Poe and Borges focuses primarily on each writer's detective stories, refers only occasionally to their critical writings and the remainder of their fiction, and deemphasizes the cultural context in which Borges interprets Poe. In this book, Esplin explores Borges's and Poe's published