Borges and Buenos Aires: Creating Place from Space in Poetry and Prose

Rebecca M. Stephanis

Modern Languages & Literatures

Research Output:

Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding

Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Abstract

In his early poetry and prose Jorge Luis Borges seeks to establish his own sense of identity within the changing urban landscape of Buenos Aires. Readers of his poems, essays, and short stories are able to follow the process by which Borges interacts with the city of Buenos Aires in order to transform it from space to place within the national imagination. In doing so, he straddles present and past, center and periphery, urban and rural, and real and imagined.

Access to documents

10.1007/978-3-319-62419-8_178

Bibliographic Information

Output type

Research Output:

Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding

Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Original language

American English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 259-269 (11 pages)

Publication milestones

Published - 10/2022

Publication status

Published - 10/2022

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN (Print)

978-3-319-62418-1

ISBN (Electronic)

978-3-319-62419-8

Host publication title

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies