![]() | Borges''s Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America Subjects: Poe Edgar Allan 1809–1849 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century; Borges Jorge Luis 1899–1986 -- Criticism and interpretation; Poe Edgar Allan 1809–1849 -- Influence; Poe Edgar Allan 1809–1849 -- Appreciation -- Latin America; Edgar Allan Poe's image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the Río de la Plata region of South America-Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. In Borges's Poe , Emron Esplin focuses on the second author in this trio and argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe's works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer. EMRON ESPLIN is assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University. |
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