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Jullien, Dominique.

Borges, Buddhism and world literaturea morphology of renunciation tales /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Borges, Buddhism and world literatureby Dominique Jullien.
Reminder of title:	a morphology of renunciation tales /
Author:	Jullien, Dominique.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019.
Description:	xxv, 126 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Comparative literature.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04717-7
ISBN:	9783030047177$q(electronic bk.)

Borges, Buddhism and world literaturea morphology of renunciation tales /
Jullien, Dominique.

Borges, Buddhism and world literaturea morphology of renunciation tales /[electronic resource] :by Dominique Jullien. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019. - xxv, 126 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Literatures of the Americas. - Literatures of the Americas..

1. Introduction: Leaving the Palace -- 2. A Borgesian Morphology: Renunciation, Morphology and World Literature -- 3. A Lesson for the King: Renunciation and Politics -- 4. From Ascetic to Poet: Poetic Renunciation -- 5. Modernity's Enigmatic Parables of Renunciation -- 6. Conclusion: Renunciation Stories and Wandering Kings.

This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its cross-cultural adaptability and metamorphic nature, and because it resonated so powerfully across philosophy, politics and aesthetics. From the story and its many variants, Borges's essays formulated a 'morphological' conception of literature (borrowing the idea from Goethe), whereby a potentially infinite number of stories were generated by transformation of a finite number of 'archetypes'. The king-and-ascetic encounter also tells a powerful political story, setting up a confrontation between power and authority; Borges's own political predicament is explored against the rich background of truth-telling renouncers. In its poetic variant, the renunciation archetype morphs into stories about art and artists, with renunciation a key requirement of the creative process: the discussion weaves in and out of Borges to highlight modern writers' debt to asceticism. Ultimately, the enigmatic appeal of the renunciation story aligns it with the open-endedness of modern parables.

ISBN: 9783030047177$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-04717-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

207651
Comparative literature.

LC Class. No.: PN56.I42 / J855 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 809.93353

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