Borges and Space

Bill Richardson is Professor of Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Previously Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Dublin City University, he has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in Spain, Latin America, the UK and the USA. He has published on Spanish language, translation and linguistics, contemporary Spanish society and a number of modern Spanish and Latin American authors. Currently, his research is focused mainly on the study of literary and linguistic issues of relevance to space and deictic reference in Spanish.

Contents: Aleph - City: Poetry and Cityscape - Death, a Compass and Human Spatiality - Immortality and the Timeless City - Deixis: Deixis and Space - The Warrior and the Englishwoman Change Sides - Location, Death, and the Labyrinth of Ibn-Hakam - Space, Time and Identity in the Garden of Forking Paths - Identity: We are where we are - in the South - Argentine Locations and the Marking of Identity - Power: Representational Space and the Magic Ruins - The Movements of a Would-be Wizard - Power, Powerlessness and Political Space - Cosmos: Babel and the Limits of the Universe - Otherworldliness and Tlön.