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Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly
opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless
cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's
lectures - delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition
- bring the canon to remarkably vivid life.Now translated into
English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by
extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Martin Arias
and Martin Hadis. Writing for Harper's magazine, Edgardo Krebs
describes Professor Borges: "A compilation of the twenty-five
lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires,
where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings'
kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the
book traverses a landscape of 'precursors,' cross-cultural
borrowings, and genres of expression, all connected by Borges into
a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of
Borges's works to have appeared posthumously."
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