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Contradictory Rhetoric: Disassembling “Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote”

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Abstract

Although Menard’s version of the Quijote follows Cervantes’s verbatim, Menard’s ideas seem original because of numerous intervening factors including time, history, tradition, and even the progression of criticism throughout the centuries. This study of Borges’s story as a contradictory text is founded upon the strong base of existing criticism, but adds a new level of analysis by addressing textual rhetorical devices and style, elements that have not yet been studied comprehensively.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Alí Víquez Jiménez, “La lectura borgesiana del Quijote,” Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica 20, no. 2 (1994): 23.

  2. 2.

    Roberto Yahni, “Unamuno y Pierre Menard,” in Actas del III Congreso Argentino de Hispanistas “España en América y América en España,” ed. Luis Martínez Cuitiño et al. (Buenos Aires: Inst. de Filol. & Lits. Hispánicas, Fac. de Filos. & Letras, University of Buenos Aires, 1993), 1012.

  3. 3.

    Yahni, “Unamuno y Pierre Menard,” 1012.

  4. 4.

    Aristotle. “The ‘Art’ of Rhetoric,” ed. G. P. Goold (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994), 15.

  5. 5.

    Silvia G. Dapía “De la filosofía a la crítica del lenguaje: Fritz Mauthner y Jorge Luis Borges,” in Jorge Luis Borges: Pensamiento y saber en el siglo XX, eds. Alfonso de Toro and Fernando de Toro (Madrid: Iberoamericana, 1999), 168.

  6. 6.

    Carmen R. Rabell, “Lenguaje y escrilectura en ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote,’” Hispanic Journal 13, no. 1 (1992): 31.

  7. 7.

    William Woof, “Borges, Cervantes & Quine: Reconciling Existence Assumptions and Fictional Complexities in ‘Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote,’” in Variaciones Borges: Journal of the Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation 7, (1999): 228.

  8. 8.

    Nora de Marval de McNair, “Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote: Huellas y sentido,” in Homenaje a Humberto Piñera, eds. Wayne H Finke and Enrique Ledesma (Madrid: Playor, 1979), 163.

  9. 9.

    Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones (Madrid: Alianza, 1995), 41.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., 41.

  11. 11.

    Ibid., 42.

  12. 12.

    Alí Víquez Jiménez, “La lectura borgesiana del Quijote,” 22.

  13. 13.

    Borges, Ficciones, 42.

  14. 14.

    Ibid., 41.

  15. 15.

    Ibid., 42.

  16. 16.

    Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones, “En los márgenes de Borges,” Variaciones Borges 12 (2001): 161.

  17. 17.

    Marval de McNair, “Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote: Huellas y sentido,” 160.

  18. 18.

    Borges, Ficciones, 42.

  19. 19.

    Ibid., 44.

  20. 20.

    Ibid., 45.

  21. 21.

    Ibid., 45.

  22. 22.

    Gómez López-Quiñones, “En los márgenes de Borges,” 157.

  23. 23.

    Borges, Ficciones, 45.

  24. 24.

    Ibid., 47.

  25. 25.

    Ibid., 46.

  26. 26.

    Ibid., 54.

  27. 27.

    Ibid., 48.

  28. 28.

    Ibid., 41.

  29. 29.

    Marval de McNair, “Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote: Huellas y sentido,” 160.

  30. 30.

    Borges, Ficciones, 41.

  31. 31.

    Gómez López-Quiñones, “En los márgenes de Borges,” 160.

  32. 32.

    Jesús Aguilar, “Can Pierre Menard be the author of Don Quixote?,” Variaciones Borges 8, (1999): 175.

  33. 33.

    Borges, Ficciones, 45.

  34. 34.

    Ibid., 46.

  35. 35.

    Ibid., 48.

  36. 36.

    Ibid., 49.

  37. 37.

    Ibid., 55.

  38. 38.

    Ibid., 48.

  39. 39.

    Emilio Carilla, “Borges: Entre el ensayo y el cuento,” Alba de América: Revista Literaria 5, nos. 8–9 (1987): 88.

  40. 40.

    Carmen R. Rabell, “Lenguaje y escrilectura en ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote.’” Hispanic Journal 13, no. 1 (1992): 34–35.

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Reagan, P. (2018). Contradictory Rhetoric: Disassembling “Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote”. In: García-Osuna, A. (eds) Borges, Language and Reality. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95912-2_5

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