Borges, desire, and sex / / Ariel de la Fuente.
<p><b>An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.</b></p><br>The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most sophisticated writers of the twentieth century, suffered from sexual impotence....
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| Superior document: | Liverpool Latin American studies, new series ; 18 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Liverpool Latin American studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 225 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jun 2020). |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. On Borges's sexuality
- 2. Biography in literature and the reading of desire and sex in Borges
- 3. Borges's erotic library: the poetry shelf
- 4. Sir Richard Burton's orientalist erotica: The Thousand Nights and a Night and The Perfumed Garden
- 5. Schopenhauer and Montaigne, philosopy and sex
- 6. Desire and sex in Buenos Aires: Borges's poetry on the Arrabal
- 7. Stoicism and Borges's writing on women
- 8. "Emma Zunz": sex virtue, and punishment
- 9. "La intrusa": incest and gay readings.