Borges, Averroes, Aristotle
The Poetics of Poetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9867063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Balderston (0000-0002-7619-9808, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 201 |
| Publication date | 1996-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/344881 |
| OpenAlex | W1991697433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
Borges's appropriations of literary theory are mischievous, undermining the grand, universalizing claims of theory. His strategies are clearly exemplified in La busca de Averroes, which shows not only Averroes's difficulties in explicating Aristotle's Poetics but also Borges's own difficulties in depicting Averroes in his otherness in twelfth-century Islamic Spain. Ultimately the story is a parable of the impossibility of theory, a swerve from the general to the particular
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2014 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |