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Peripheral (post) modernity : the syncretist aesthetics of Borges, Piglia, Kalokyris and Kyriakidis

By Ricardo , Borges , Jorge Luis; Kalokyrēs , Dēmētrēs; Kyriakidēs , Achilleas; Kyriakidis , Achilleas; Piglia , Ricardo; Kyriakides , Achilleas; Kalokyris , Dēmētrēs; Kefala , Eleni; Borges , Jorge Luis; Piglia

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Year
2007
ISBN
0-8204-8639-6, 978-0-8204-8639-0, 9781453906699, 145390669X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6583324 bytes)
Series
Post Modernity: The Syncretist Aesthetics of Borges, Piglia, Kalokyris and Kyriakidis
Pages
303\316
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1899-1986 -- Aesthetics. Postmodernism (Literat-- 1899-1986 -- Influence. Borges-- 1948- -- Aesthetics. KyriakidēsAchilleas -- ABorgesDēmētrēsJorge LuisModern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. PRicardo -- Aesthetics. Kalokyrēs

Description

Are there such things as peripheral modernity and postmodernity? This groundbreaking book focuses on the notions of modernity and postmodernity in two countries that never before have been studied comparatively: Argentina and Greece. It examines theories of the postmodern and the problems involved in applying them to the hybrid and sui generis cultural phenomena of the «periphery». Simultaneously it offers an exciting insight into the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Piglia, Dimitris Kalokyris and Achilleas Kyriakidis, whose syncretist aesthetics are symptomatic of the mixing up of different and often opposed aesthetic principles and traditions that occur in «peripheral» locations. This book will be very useful to scholars and students of Latin American, Modern Greek and comparative literature as well as to those interested in Borges studies

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