Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

Author / Editor
Borges, Jorge Luis.

Title
Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

Published
New York: New Directions, 2013.

Physical Description
xiv, 306 pp.

Description
Based on student transcriptions of Borges' 1966 lectures. Chapters are divided into chronological class sessions; lecture topics begin with the fifth century and conclude with nineteenth-century writers. Describes the history of the English language and the British Empire to provide context for discussions of literary works, including Chaucer's influence on William Blake and William Morris. Notes Chaucer's appearance as a character in Morris' "The Earthly Paradise."

Contributor
Arias, Martin, ed.
Hadis, Martin, ed.
Silver, Katherine, trans.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion