Borges's Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America

by Emron Esplin

Book Overview

Edgar Allan Poe's image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the R o de la Plata region of South America--Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cort zar. In Borges's Poe, Emron Esplin focuses on the second author in this trio and argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe's works, served as the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820355372
• ISBN13: 9780820355375
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"