The Oldest Trick in the Book: Borges and the "Rhetoric of Immediacy''
In his most "philosophical'' texts, Jorge Luis Borges paradoxically posits the act of reading as the scene of affectively "immediate" experience: his reader reads a reader reading ( ad infinitum ). This sort of hyper-meditated, specular imitation actually comes to mirror the...
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New Prairie Press
1993-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
| Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol17/iss2/4 |