|
ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Daniel Nahson, Assistant Professor of
Foreign Languages and
Literatures at the SUNY College at Oneonta, is the author of the book
La crítica del mito: Borges y la literatura como sueño de vida (Borges
and the Critique of Myth), which was released recently by Iberoamericana/Vervuert
publishers.
Dr. Nahson’s work describes how nineteenth-century Latin American
literature converges on the poetry, narrative, and criticism of Argentine
writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges and how twentieth-century Latin American
literature emerges transformed in decisive ways from the literary creations
of Borges. In his book, Dr. Nahson examines aspects of Borges’ work which
are central to the understanding of his literary achievement but which have
not been the object of substantial critical investigation.
With in-depth command of the sources and adopting multiple critical
perspectives, Dr. Nahson analyzes in Borges and the Critique of Myth
the allusive rewriting of myth, the literary sublimation of desire, and the
Romantic valuation of the irrational and the divine in the poetry and
narrative of an author that has transformed world literature.
Daniel Nahson, who has taught at SUNY Oneonta since 2008, holds a
doctorate in Spanish Literature from Columbia University. He taught
previously at the University of Texas, Emory University, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Williams College, and Columbia University.
He is also the author of the book Amor sensual por el cielo. La
‘Exposición del Cantar de los Cantares’ de Fray Luis de León, which was
published by Iberoamericana/Vervuert in 2006.
|
