Borges, desire, and sex
<p><b>An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.</b></p><br>The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most sophisticated writers of the twentieth century, suffered from sexual impotence....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press
2018.
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| Series: | Liverpool Latin American studies ;
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430302206719 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. On Borges's sexuality
- 2. Biography in literature and the reading of desire and sex in Borges
- 3. Borges's erotic library: the poetry shelf
- 4. Sir Richard Burton's orientalist erotica: The Thousand Nights and a Night and The Perfumed Garden
- 5. Schopenhauer and Montaigne, philosopy and sex
- 6. Desire and sex in Buenos Aires: Borges's poetry on the Arrabal
- 7. Stoicism and Borges's writing on women
- 8. "Emma Zunz": sex virtue, and punishment
- 9. "La intrusa": incest and gay readings.
