SPANISH 339c - Borges and the Borgesian

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Bowdoin College

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Fall 2006. GUSTAVO FAVER ®N -PATRIAU. A careful examination of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges's work. Focuses not only on Borges's short stories, poems, essays, film scripts, interviews, and cinematic adaptations, but also on the writers who had a particular influencce on Borges's work, as well as on Latin American, European and United States writers who were later influenced by the Argentinian master. An organizing concept is Borges's idea that "a writer creates his ownprecursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." (Same as Latin American Studies 339.) Prerequisite: Two of the following: Spanish 207, 208, 209, 210, or permission of the instructor.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bowdoin.edu/

Phone Number:

(207) 725-3000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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