Jorge Luis Borges
Exhaustive critical commentary quickly tends towards annotation, which in turn tends ultimately towards a kind of Borgesian replicatin of the text in itself.
Exhaustive critical commentary quickly tends towards annotation, which in turn tends ultimately towards a kind of Borgesian replicatin of the text in itself.
The eschatological theme of the game bleeds into the reality, just as the boundaries of the map are blurred
on Eschaton
obsolescent conventions of the eclogue tradition
Laurence Buell, defining the term "pastoral"
Lenore Beadsman's erratic progress towards equipoise and self-reliance
what I call Walace's "skeletal narrative," which involves the undermining and eventual collapse of a surface narrative to reveal the "true" or "real" story, by means of jarring elements planted within the narrative voice itself