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SUMMARY:Borges: After the Classics - Laura Jansen\, Bristol University
DTSTART:20141204T171500Z
DTEND:20141204T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The writings of Jorge Luis Borges (Buenos Aires\, 1899 - Genev
 a\, 1986) are punctuated by references to the Greco-Roman classics\, yet t
 he discipline of Classics has engaged surprisingly little with Borges’ w
 idely read oeuvre. Likewise\, while scholarship on Borges has produced pio
 neering studies of his work\, it has not focused systematically on his dia
 logue with the classical past. Based on her work-in-progress monograph\, L
 aura Jansen’s talk will explore the question of “Borges after the Clas
 sics”. Using select examples from the author’s poetry and short fictio
 ns\, as well as a recently published collection of his marginal annotation
 s and reading notes\, it will consider the subject from two perspectives: 
 it will ask how Borges’ appeal to classical antiquity opens up new under
 standings of his work and how this process renders new insights into Greco
 -Roman literature\, philosophy\, and culture. In reading Borges’ recepti
 on of the Classics with this dual approach\, the paper will offer dynamic 
 and mutually reinforcing discussions for Classicists as well as Hispanists
 \, Latin Americanists\, and historians of modernist literature.
LOCATION:Classics Faculty\, Room G.21
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