Rollason (2009) The "Character of Phantasm": Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Jorge Luis Borges' "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"

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The "Character of Phantasm": Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Jorge Luis Borges' "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"

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CONTRIBUTORS:

Author:

Rollason, Christopher (Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate)

CONFERENCE TITLE:

International Conference: Edgar Allan Poe, 200 Years Later - University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

CONF. LOCATION:

None

YEAR:

2009

PUB TYPE:

Conference Paper

SUBJECT(S):

Edgar Allan Poe; Gothic literature; Jorge Luis Borges; fantastic literature

DISCIPLINE:

Literature

HTTP:

http://yatrarollason.info/files/2009Rollason.pdf

LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-447-762 (Last edited on 2009/08/12 08:46:56 GMT-6)

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ABSTRACT:
That there exists a close relationship of influence and intertextuality between Edgar Allan Poe and Jorge Luis Borges is both a critical commonplace and a fact of literary history, as avowed on numerous occasions by Borges himself and confirmed by criticism. However, in both the Argentinian writer's own hands and others', comment on Poe's presence in Borges has tended to concentrate on three areas of the American author's work, namely: the detective fiction; Arthur Gordon Pym; and Poe's literary theory. This paper will explore another facet, i.e. the possible intertextual relations and parallels between Poe's tales of terror and Borges' admired metaphysical fictions. It will be argued that the side-by-side examination of "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", Borges' fable of the intellectual attraction of an imaginary planet, reveals significant links, both overt and covert, between Borges' tale and Poe's, highlighting the seductively similar yet also strikingly divergent forms in which both writers privilege the textual and intertextual in exploring and developing the concept of a parallel reality.

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NB: URL above is that of the conference. This text was published in expanded form in ATLANTIS (Spain) in June 209 - see separate getcited entry.

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