The Warring Brothers: Borges Reads Kafka and Flaubert

Daniel Balderston

doi:10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2049

The Warring Brothers: Borges Reads Kafka and Flaubert

Theory in Action ◽

10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2049 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 39-62

Author(s):

Daniel Balderston

Keyword(s):

Buenos Aires ◽

Key Concepts ◽

Bouvard Et Pecuchet

This article examines the preparatory materials that Borges used to teach courses at the Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores in Buenos Aires, on Kafka in 1951 and on Flaubert in 1952. Though several well known essays emerged from these courses – “Kafka y sus precursors”, “Flaubert y su destino ejemplar” and “Vindicación de Bouvard et Pécuchet” – the manuscripts reveal far more of Borges's research and thinking about the two authors. Key concepts that he develops in these essays include his unusual (and influential) idea of the “precursor” that is only revealed through reading later works and heterodox ideas about realism and verisimilitude.

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Giuseppe Mazzini and the Emergence of Liberal Nationalism in the River Plate and Chile, 1835–60

Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalization of Democratic Nationalism, 1830-1920 ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197264317.003.0017 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Jorge Myers

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Buenos Aires ◽

The Political ◽

Rhetorical Patterns ◽

Liberal Nationalism ◽

Decisive Importance ◽

Key Concepts ◽

Cultural Intermediaries ◽

Political Vocabulary ◽

Latin American Countries

This chapter examines the reception of the political and social thought of Giuseppe Mazzini in the River Plate (Buenos Aires and Montevideo) and Chile, and its contribution to the development of native currents of liberal and democratic nationalism there. Focusing on the writings of the leaders of the Association of the Young Argentinian Generation – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Esteban Echeverría, Bartolomé Mitre, and Vicente Fidel López – it analyses the forms in which certain key concepts drawn from Mazzini's political vocabulary played a crucial role in the early elaboration of an Argentinian liberal nationalism. The chapter also stresses the importance of cultural intermediaries such as Giovanbattista Cuneo and Giuseppe Garibaldi, whose presence in the River Plate during the 1830s and 1840s was of decisive importance in the transmission of the programme formulated by Mazzini for his Giovine Italia movement. The chapter also explores the possible presence of Mazzinian themes and rhetorical patterns in the writings of the Chilean radical republican Francisco Bilbao, whose career as a publicist took place in three Latin American countries: Chile, Peru, and Argentina.

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Open discussion

Symposium - International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s0074180900029533 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 99 ◽

pp. 605-613

Author(s):

P. S. Conti

Keyword(s):

Buenos Aires ◽

Large Mass ◽

List Type ◽

Common Phenomenon ◽

Open Discussion ◽

The Stability ◽

Ring Nebulae

Conti: One of the main conclusions of the Wolf-Rayet symposium in Buenos Aires was that Wolf-Rayet stars are evolutionary products of massive objects. Some questions:–Do hot helium-rich stars, that are not Wolf-Rayet stars, exist?–What about the stability of helium rich stars of large mass? We know a helium rich star of ∼40 MO. Has the stability something to do with the wind?–Ring nebulae and bubbles : this seems to be a much more common phenomenon than we thought of some years age.–What is the origin of the subtypes? This is important to find a possible matching of scenarios to subtypes.

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Ethnogeriatrics: Development and Application of the Cohort Analysis Tool

Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations ◽

10.1044/cds21.2.37 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 37-52

Author(s):

Melen McBride

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Cohort Analysis ◽

Analysis Tool ◽

Speech Language Pathology ◽

Clinical Tool ◽

Research Activities ◽

Key Concepts ◽

Practice Teaching ◽

Language Pathology ◽

Significant Factors

Ethnogeriatrics is an evolving specialty in geriatric care that focuses on the health and aging issues in the context of culture for older adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This article is an introduction to ethnogeriatrics for healthcare professionals including speech-language pathologists (SLPs). This article focuses on significant factors that contributed to the development of ethnogeriatrics, definitions of some key concepts in ethnogeriatrics, introduces cohort analysis as a teaching and clinical tool, and presents applications for speech-language pathology with recommendations for use of cohort analysis in practice, teaching, and research activities.

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