Este estudo investiga como ocorre a construção do sul mítico no conto El Sur, de Jorge Luis Borges. Para tanto, é analisado de que maneira a representação do sul torna-se um espaço simbólico e, assim, consegue caracterizar uma regionalidade mítica. Examina-se também como a memória e o imaginário fundam espaços. Caracterizando um espaço de regionalidade, através de uma perspectiva antropológica, a viagem é considerada uma travessia que se constrói pelas práticas de espaço, pela fronteira e pela passagem / Este estudio investiga cómo ocurre la construcción del sur mítico en el cuento El Sur, Jorge Luis Borges. Por lo tanto, se analiza cómo la representación del sur se convierte en un espacio simbólico y así se puede caracterizar a una regionalidad mítica. También examina cómo la memoria y la imaginación fundan espacios. Con un espacio de regionalidad, a través de una perspectiva antropológica, el viaje es considerado un cruce que se construye por las prácticas del espacio, por la frontera, por el pasaje

La reconnaissance internationale de la littérature latino-américaine au XXe siècle a souvent été interprétée par la critique comme le résultat de l’influence du Modernisme, notamment du fait de la lecture, par les auteurs latino-américains, de James Joyce et William Faulkner. Certains auteurs du continent, pourtant, suivent des stratégies différentes : Borges, Bioy Casares et Cortázar utilisent les fondements de la littérature de genre (fantastique, policier, horreur, roman d’aventures) pour opérer une reconfiguration des équilibres entre le champ littéraire et les injonctions politiques, nationales et culturelles. Dans cette optique, le travail de Robert Louis Stevenson sur les publics populaires et le croisement des genres peut être vu comme une référence idéale, du fait de sa complexité et de son souci constant d’expérimentation. Cette étude a donc pour objectif de proposer une comparaison de ces stratégies, en utilisant les outils conceptuels et théoriques de la littérature mondiale. Stevenson, de cette manière, pourra apparaître comme un modèle herméneutique pour penser et résoudre certains dilemmes géographiques et littéraires. / The international recognition of Latin American literature during the twentieth century has been interpreted by critics as a result of a Modernist influence, mainly through the reading of James Joyce and William Faulkner. Some Latin American writers, though, pursued other strategies : Bioy Casares, Borges and Cortázar used the foundations of popular literature (fantastic, detective or horror literature, adventure novel) to reconfigure the relations between the literary field and the political, national and cultural injonctions. For that purpose, Robert Louis Stevenson’s work on popular audience and generic hybridity at the end of the Victorian era can be seen as an ideal point of reference, thanks to its complexity and constant experimentation. The aim of the present study is to analyse this process using world literature’s conceptual and theorical tools. Stevenson can thus be seen as a model to think and resolve some geographical and literary dilemmas.

This diploma thesis focuses primarily on the relation between inner and outer landscape in postmodern fiction, i.e. on specific concepts of individual fictional spaces and the ways in which they resonate with the protagonists' means of perception. As a particular starting point, these four works are used: Trýznivé město by D. Hodrová, Pravěk a jiné časy by O. Tokarczuková, Země vod by G. Swift and prose collections Fikce and Alef by J. L. Borges. In the diploma thesis, the term "inner landscape" refers to a spectrum of concepts connected with the theme of subjective perception, among which the most important are topics of recollection and descending into deeper layers of the space - i.e. to the symbolical or mythical layer - and, thus, deeper to understanding one's identity. Therefore, a crucial part of the diploma thesis is to grasp characteristic features of individual fictional worlds and to interpret them in relation to perception and identity of characters. This interpretation is based on the definition of individual topoi and dominants as well as on the presupposition of the vertical structure of the works which implies merging of different time, space and conceptual levels. In the diploma thesis, the dynamic aspect is accentuated so the attention is paid to the protagonists' moving through...

El presente volumen es el resultado de una selección de las ponencias presentadas en el coloquio internacional "Jorge Luis Borges: Translación e Historia" realizado con el auspicio de la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft en el Centro de Investigación Iberoamericana del 4 al 9 de diciembre de 2007 y pone en el centro de su reflexión a Borges como fenómeno de "translación", entendiendo por el concepto de "translación" un complejo proceso cultural, medial, social y pragmasemiótico que abarca tanto los campos de la literatura como los de la antropología, la etnología, la filosofía, la historia, los medios de comunicación y también los de la gestualidad, el cuerpo y diversos sistemas discursivos. La estrategia translatológica pone de manifiesto la "recodificación", "transformación", "reinvención" e "invención" de la enunciación que transporta sistemas culturales (lengua, códigos como religión, costumbres, saber, organización social, naturaleza, etc.) de donde nace un nuevo sistema cultural que se concretiza en un proceso semiótico de codificación, decodificación y recodificación, de producción y de escenificación con nuevas "funciones". Y aquí es donde yacen los criterios más importantes del acto de translación. El proceso de translación —como proceso híbrido en sí— incluye por cierto la transmedialidad y no tan sólo el acto de producción y recepción, sino también el de la inscripción de una mediación o trasfiguración en el acto de translación con una finalidad determinada. Además, el acto de translación es en su totalidad un proceso de escenificación basado en sus constituyentes tales como la representación, la imagen, la escritura o el gesto.

[pt] Este trabalho trata da contribuição do campo estético na reflexão sobre as consequências do processo colonial na América Latina; defendendo o conhecimento gestado em nosso continente como ferramenta de análise de nossos problemas. A hipótese central é de que o estético se particulariza em nosso continente, funcionando como um dispositivo presentificador de específicas condições do espaço latinoamericano, ocupando-se de zonas imprecisas, habitadas por virtualidades e fantasmagorias, nas quais persistem resíduos de uma temporalidade arcaica, antimoderna, que atritam com as incessantes demandas progressistas da modernidade. Esses resíduos desdobram-se de modos diversos, em corpos, espacialidades, modos de viver e construir conhecimento, e são rearticulados pelo estético por meio de processos de virtualização que emergem em variadas formas criativas. Ao longo dos próximos capítulos serão apresentados trabalhos que ocupam essas zonas imprecisas, produzidos em diversas épocas e respondendo a distintas ambições. Da ficção de Jorge Luis Borges às fotografias etnográficas do austríaco Martin Gusinde, na Terra do Fogo. Dos desenhos do arquiteto chileno Miguel Lawner, realizados em campos de concentração chilenos, durante a ditadura Pinochet, a narrativas recentes, que tratam das consequências do Golpe de 1964 no Brasil, em seu âmbito pessoal, familiar e coletivo, como é o caso de Ainda estou aqui (2015), de Marcelo Rubens Paiva, e A noite da espera, de Milton Hatoum (2017). Trabalhos como esses são capazes de repor ou reapresentar o que foi destruído, apagado ou ocultado pelos Estados que aqui se configuram, a partir dos processos de independência nacional, possibilitando reatualizar na contemporaneidade as recorrências dos traumas de constituição do espaço colonial de nosso continente, em variadas encarnações das sociedades pós-coloniais. É essa importante tarefa de fazer do passado um elemento vivo entre nós, a principal colaboração do estético para que enfim se possa emancipar a América Latina do papel de dependência que ocupamos desde 1492. / [en] Aesthetics of Latin American space searches to investigate the contributions of aesthetic field in the analyses of the colonial process, in Latin America, urging to recognize the knowledge produced in our continent as a key to understand our problems. The main hypothesis is the process of particularization of the aesthetic in Latin American, working as an apparatus that bring to the present specifics conditions of Latin American space, as some vague zones inhabited by virtualities and phantasmagoria, where residues of an archaic, anti-modern temporality persist, fighting against the progressive demands of modernity. These residues unfold in different ways, in bodies, spatialities, ways of living and building knowledge, and are re-articulated and re-presented by the aesthetic through processes of virtualization that emerge in a diversity of creative forms. Throughout the next chapters, works that occupy these imprecise zones produced in different times and responding to different ambitions, will be presented. From Jorge Luis Borges s fiction to the ethnographic photographs of the Austrian priest Martin Gusinde, in Tierra del Fuego. From drawings by Chilean architect Miguel Lawner, made in concentration camps during the Pinochet dictatorship, to recent narratives that deal with the consequences of the 1964 s coup in Brazil, in the personal, familiar and collective spheres, in books as Ainda estou aqui (2015), by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, and A noite da espera, by Milton Hatoum (2017). Works like these are capable of replacing or re-presenting what was destroyed, erased or hidden by the States that emerge after processes of national independence, making it possible to bring to contemporaneity the recurrences of traumas that constitute colonial space in Latin American continent, in different incarnations of post-colonial societies. The complex work of making past a living element is the main contribution of the aesthetic to emancipate Latin America from the role of dependence that it have occupied since 1492.

This dissertation explores the relationship between language, sacramentality, and enchantment in three twentieth-century Argentine poets: Francisco Luis Bernárdez (1900-1976), Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), and Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972). It seeks to ask and answer two fundamental questions. First, to what extent might it be possible to understand the conception of poetic language characteristic of modern poetry as an articulation, however muffled and secularized, of a sacramental apprehension of language and world? Second, how might such a conception be related to what Max Weber famously called “the disenchantment of the world”? The dissertation begins with a broad overview of the development of the concept of disenchant within Western culture and then proceeds to a reading of the three poets mentioned above. Special attention is given throughout both to historical and political context and to the specific ways in which Bernárdez, Borges, and Pizarnik understand and employ poetic language. In each case, I attempt to show how, among both secular and religious poets, language retains vestiges of a sacramental understanding of the world.

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This dissertation explores the relationship between fiction, knowledge and "knowing" in Latin American discourses of China and Japan. By scrutinizing Brazilian and Hispanic American travel journals, novels, short stories and essays from the nineteenth century to the present, Disorientations engages with the epistemological problems of writing across cultural boundaries and proposes a novel entryway into the study of East Asia and Latin American through the notions of "cultural distance," "fictional Sinology" and "critical exoticism." / Romance Languages and Literatures

Jorge Luis Borges's story "El Zahir" describes a moment where the protagonist finds rest from his monomania by reworking one of the central texts in Old Germanic myth, the story of Sigurd and Brynhild. The approach taken here by the protagonist is the paradigm used in this thesis for understanding Borges's own strong readings of Old Germanic literature, specifically Old Scandinavian texts. In chapter one, a brief outline of the myth of Sigurd and Brynhild, with a particular emphasis on Gram, the sword that lied between them, is provided and juxtaposed with Borges's own family history, focusing on the family's storied military past. This image of the sword as the symbol for the north and its relation to Borges's family and political interests is sustained throughout the thesis. Chapter two is a survey of the various facets of Borges's literary output that were influenced by Nordic myth and literary styles: first, literary criticism, second, poetry and prose, and third, translation. The survey shows that Borges's engagement with the north began early and was maintained throughout his life. Likewise, after working through seven works from disparate periods it becomes clear that Borges is not merely introducing the Spanish speaking world to Old Scandinavian texts, but, in the same fashion as the protagonist in "El Zahir," subsuming them in a way that is uniquely Borgesian. The third chapter follows the same approach as the survey but focuses on Borges's short stories, specifically two short stories from his collection entitled Libro de Arena: "Ulrica" and "Undr." Many of the conclusions that emerged in the survey are further validated in the analysis of these two stories, but with greater emphasis on how they relate to Borges's later years, and the themes that begin to surround his preparation for death. The concluding chapter summarizes the findings of the previous three chapters by way of a close reading of Borges's tombstone. Each aspect of the stone is connected to Old Germanic myth and how that symbolized the eventual consummation of his joy: the sword that kept him separated from love was eventually lifted, as it was for Ulrica and Javier in "Ulrica."

L’objectif de cette Thèse consiste à accroître nos connaissances sur la société argentine par une approche particulière. Nous sommes persuadés que la littérature policière est une métaphore de la société contemporaine et qu’à travers son analyse nous parviendrons à mieux comprendre son fonctionnement. Notre travail ne cherche pas à donner une vision globale du genre mais à confronter la production dans deux étapes critiques de l’histoire argentine : la Décennie Infâme (1930-1943) et la crise postménémiste (de 1999 à nos jours). Suivant le modèle créé par Karl Marx (« Le 18 brumaire de Louis Bonaparte ») nous les avons appelées Tragédie et Farce. En effet, nos recherches nous ont permis de découvrir les résonances qui existent entre les deux périodes. Cette Thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre de la sociocritique. La lecture socio-historique des textes nous fera passer en revue tout le vingtième siècle, des préceptes modernistes du Siècle des Lumières à l’hypermodernisme de Gilles Lipovetsky ou à la modernité liquide de Zygmunt Bauman. Nous avons organisé notre travail selon trois éléments principaux et indissociables : la ville, la figure du détective et la société ; à travers ces pages nous avons suivi leur évolution. / The objective of this Thesis is to increase our knowledge of Argentinian society by a specific approach. We are convinced that detective literature is a metaphor of the contemporary society and that through its analysis we will arrive at a better understanding of it. Our work does not seek to give a comprehensive view of this literature but to confront literary production with two critical periods of Argentinian history: the Infamous Decade (1930-1943) and the post-Menemist crisis. Following the model created by Karl Marx (“The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoléon”) we have called them Tragedy and Farce. Our research shows the resonances between these two periods. Our research consists of a sociological approach. A sociohistorical reading of the literary texts brings us to review the whole of the twentieth century, from the modernistic precepts of the Age of Enlightenment to the hypermodernism of Gilles Lipovetsky or the liquid modernity of Zygmunt Bauman. We have organized our work according to three principal and indissociable elements: the city, the figure of the detective and the society; throughout these pages we have followed their evolution.