Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 On Borges’s Sexuality
- 2 Biography in Literature and the Reading of Desire and Sex in Borges
- 3 Borges’s Erotic Library: The Poetry Shelf
- 4 Sir Richard Burton’s Orientalist Erotica: The Thousand Nights and a Night and The Perfumed Garden
- 5 Schopenhauer and Montaigne, Philosophy and Sex
- 6 Desire and Sex in Buenos Aires: Borges’s Poetry on the Arrabal
- 7 Stoicism and Borges’s Writing of Women
- 8 “Emma Zunz”: Sex, Virtue, and Punishment
- 9 “La intrusa”: Incest and Gay Readings
- Conclusions
- Works Cited
- Index
Dedication
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 On Borges’s Sexuality
- 2 Biography in Literature and the Reading of Desire and Sex in Borges
- 3 Borges’s Erotic Library: The Poetry Shelf
- 4 Sir Richard Burton’s Orientalist Erotica: The Thousand Nights and a Night and The Perfumed Garden
- 5 Schopenhauer and Montaigne, Philosophy and Sex
- 6 Desire and Sex in Buenos Aires: Borges’s Poetry on the Arrabal
- 7 Stoicism and Borges’s Writing of Women
- 8 “Emma Zunz”: Sex, Virtue, and Punishment
- 9 “La intrusa”: Incest and Gay Readings
- Conclusions
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Borges, Desire, and Sex , pp. v - viPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2018