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Literary Philosophers: Borges, Calvino, Eco » (New Edition)

Book cover image of Literary Philosophers: Borges, Calvino, Eco by Jorge Gracia

Authors: Jorge Gracia, Rodolphe Gasche (Editor), Carolyn Korsmeyer (Editor), Rodlphe Gasche
ISBN-13: 9780415929189, ISBN-10: 0415929180
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: July 2002
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Jorge Gracia

Book Synopsis

Borges, Calvino, and Eco are as noted for the intriguing philosophical puzzles they present as they are for their inventive literary styles. In their writings, sequences of causality are reversed, individuals switch identities, and stories of one person mirror those of others. Literary Philosophers brings together a group of distinguished philosophers, literary scholars, and comparativists to explore and debate the relationship between philosophy and literature in the works of these brilliant figures.

	Acknowledgements
1	Literary Philosophers: Introductory Remarks	1
2	Intersections: Philosophy and Literature, or Why Ethical Criticism Prefers Realism	15
3	Philosophy and the Philosophical, Literature and the Literary, Borges and the Labyrinthine	27
4	Borges's Monsters: Unnatural Wholes and the Transformation of Genre	47
5	Borges's "Pierre Menard": Philosophy or Literature?	85
6	Mimesis and Modernism: The Case of Jorge Luis Borges	109
7	A Method for the New Millennium: Calvino and Irony	129
8	The Writing of the System: Borges's Library and Calvino's Traffic	149
9	Knowledge and Cognitive Practices in Eco's Labyrinths of Intertextuality	165
10	Borges, Calvino, Eco: The Philosophies of Metafiction	185
11	Philosophy and Literature in Calvino's Tales	205
	Bibliography	223
	Notes on Contributors	239
	Index	243