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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Borges\, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Dominique Jullien (French and Comparative Literature) and Sowon Park (English) about Jullien’s new book\, Borges\, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales. Refreshments will be served. \nJullien’s latest book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond\, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism\, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic\, fascinated Borges because of its cross-cultural adaptability and metamorphic nature\, and because it resonated so powerfully across philosophy\, politics and aesthetics. From the story and its many variants\, Borges’s essays formulated a ‘morphological’ conception of literature (borrowing the idea from Goethe)\, whereby a potentially infinite number of stories were generated by transformation of a finite number of ‘archetypes’. The king-and-ascetic encounter also tells a powerful political story\, setting up a confrontation between power and authority; Borges’s own political predicament is explored against the rich background of truth-telling renouncers. In its poetic variant\, the renunciation archetype morphs into stories about art and artists\, with renunciation a key requirement of the creative process: the discussion weaves in and out of Borges to highlight modern writers’ debt to asceticism. Ultimately\, the enigmatic appeal of the renunciation story aligns it with the open-endedness of modern parables. \nDominique Jullien is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and author of Proust et ses modèles: les Mille et une nuits et les Mémoires de Saint-Simon (1989); Récits du Nouveau Monde. Les voyageurs français en Amérique de Chateaubriand à nos jours (1992); and Les Amoureux de Schéhérazade. Variations modernes sur les Mille et une nuits (2009). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-borges-buddhism-and-world-literature-a-morphology-of-renunciation-tales/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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