Reading Anew

Reading Anew

José Lezama Lima's Rhetorical Investigations

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

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