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Mirror of Time: Temporality and Contemporaneity in the work of Jorge Luis Borges

Donnelly, Jennifer (2012) Mirror of Time: Temporality and Contemporaneity in the work of Jorge Luis Borges. Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, 2. 75 - 87.

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Abstract

<jats:p>Borges recognized the cracking facade of modernity and the fragility of its monist absolutisms, its commitment to linearity, and its faith in historical progress.  By disavowing the ability of time to be contained within any collective structure of representation, Borges both refutes modernist conceptions of time and offers insight into recent theories of contemporaneity.  A contemporaneous reading of Borges opens lucid temporal relationships, challenges assumptions about the affinities between the self and time, allows for the existence of multiple temporal antimonies, and ultimately reveals the contemporaneous relationship between individual sensations of time of the collective structural composition of temporality.</jats:p>


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Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Donnelly, Jenniferjed82@pitt.eduJED82
Date: 11 July 2012
Date Type: Publication
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Journal or Publication Title: Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture
Volume: 2
Publisher: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
Page Range: 75 - 87
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.5195/contemp.2012.38
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > History of Art and Architecture
Refereed: Yes
Date Deposited: 01 Mar 2013 15:37
Last Modified: 04 Aug 2020 22:56
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17604

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