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Browne, Borges, and Back: Phantasmagories of Imaginative Learning1
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Abstract
Like many other readers of Sir Thomas Browne, the polymorphic, polymathic, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) juxtaposed Browne to his predecessors and contemporaries.2 This essay will propose a different exercise in intertextuality: not in the retrospective sense of Browne’s reading3 but in the prospective sense of his fortunes. Borges himself is the primary exemplar of this forward-facing Brownean movement. From his youth, the Argentine writer was expressly a self-styled, would-be Browne.
Title: Browne, Borges, and Back: Phantasmagories of Imaginative Learning1
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Abstract
Like many other readers of Sir Thomas Browne, the polymorphic, polymathic, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) juxtaposed Browne to his predecessors and contemporaries.
2 This essay will propose a different exercise in intertextuality: not in the retrospective sense of Browne’s reading3 but in the prospective sense of his fortunes.
Borges himself is the primary exemplar of this forward-facing Brownean movement.
From his youth, the Argentine writer was expressly a self-styled, would-be Browne.
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