Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Borges, Jorge Luis.
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