Analyzes Lezama's use of language and the cultural archive. Shows how the verbal experience in his work constitutes a theoretical reflection about how rhetoric and the imagination shape our conceptions of the world.
- Front Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Metaphor
- 1. Rethinking Metaphors and Concepts
- 2. Radical Tropologic: “Dador”
- Part II: Island
- 3. Tradition, Death and Poetics: Insular Transits in “X y XX”
- Part III: Allegory
- 4. The Speculum of Historiography
- 5. Allegory and Futurity in the Eras Imaginarias
- Appendix: Stéphane Mallarmé, “Prose (pour des Esseintes)”
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover