The Scope of the Fantastic —Theory, Technique, Major Authors: Selected Essays from the First International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film, and: Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, and: In Defense of Fantasy: A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature since 1945, and: The Comedy of the Fantastic: Ecological Perspectives on the Fantasy Novel, and: The Return from

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 848-852
Author(s):  
Lionel Basney
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Literature And Film ◽  
Theory Technique

A Twice-Told Tale: Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian (Iberian American Literature and Film)

2003 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 745
Author(s):  
Peter Beardsell ◽  
Santiago Juan-Navarro ◽  
Theodore Robert Young
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Literature And Film

The Classical Tradition of Cosmopolitan “Spiritual Exercises” in Jorge Luis Borges and Latin American Postnational Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernat Castany Prado
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Hispanic Literature ◽  
Decisive Influence

Castany Prado’s chapter offers a fuller understanding of Borges’s cosmopolitanism, which has been influential in contemporary Western literature in general, and, more specifically, in postnational Latin American literature. The author traces the roots of cosmopolitanism back to the teachings of the Cynics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and the Neo-Platonists, before identifying their literary projections in contemporary Hispanic literature. He then argues that the postnational paradigm is neither the direct result of recent globalization processes, nor can it be understood in solely internationalist terms; rather, it is heir to a millennia-long tradition of philosophical cosmopolitanism. This is especially important in the area of postnational Latin American literature, for which, according to Castany Prado, Borges constitutes a decisive influence.

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