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Unreading Borges's Labyrinths, Lawrence R. Schehr
Unreading Borges's Labyrinths, Lawrence R. Schehr
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Borges's stories often valorize the figures of text and labyrinth, and, in "The Garden of Forking Paths," an identity is posited between them. This identity is the means to deconstructing the story and, at the same time, for refusing both structuralist and metaphysical readings of the work. The text of the story gradually subsumes the world it seeks to represent under and within an all-encompassing textuality without origin and without any clearly delimited meaning except absence, the destruction of meaning, death. The solution of the labyrinth is its dissolution, that is, the deconstruction of the text. This easily thematizable deconstruction …
The Syntax Of Assertion In The Poetry Of Claudio Rodriguez, Margaret H. Persin
The Syntax Of Assertion In The Poetry Of Claudio Rodriguez, Margaret H. Persin
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Through his original and unsettling manner of syntactical assertion, Claudio Rodriguez, the contemporary Spanish poet, subverts the conventional usage of language. But, in turn, he captures the transcendental, magical experience of language and all existence in the process of the text. That experience is based on intuition, irrationality and sensorial associations, rather than on logical connections. The reader is thus confronted with texts whose contradictory interpretive paths of signification continually subvert one another. Rodriguez wishes to communicate that it is not the end result but rather the process of the text that is the ultimate meaning. The reader's task is …