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Meaning of "Borgesian" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BORGESIAN

Borgesian  [ˌbɔːˈhɛsɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BORGESIAN

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Borgesian is an adjective.
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WHAT DOES BORGESIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Borgesian

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges, KBE (Spanish: audio (help·info); 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature". His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and The Aleph (El Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and also to the fantasy genre. Critic Ángel Flores, the first to use the term magical realism to define a genre that reacted against the dominant realism and naturalism of the 19th century, considers the beginning of the movement to be the release of Borges's A Universal History of Infamy (Historia universal de la infamia). However, some critics would consider Borges to be a predecessor and not actually a magical realist. His late poems dialogue with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil.

Definition of Borgesian in the English dictionary

The definition of Borgesian in the dictionary is of Jorge Luis Borges or his works. Other definition of Borgesian is reminiscent of elements of Borges' stories and essays, esp labyrinths, mirrors, reality, identity, the nature of time, and infinity.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BORGESIAN


Albigensian
ˌælbɪˈdʒɛnsɪən
basion
ˈbeɪsɪən
Cappadocian
ˌkæpəˈdəʊsɪən
ceratopsian
ˌsɛrəˈtɒpsɪən
Circassian
sɜːˈkæsɪən
enzian
ˈɛntsɪən
Gaussian
ˈɡaʊsɪən
halcyon
ˈhælsɪən
Hertzian
ˈhɜːtsɪən
hessian
ˈhɛsɪən
Joycean
ˈdʒɔɪsɪən
laodicean
ˌleɪəʊdɪˈsɪən
Lucian
ˈluːsɪən
Lycian
ˈlɪsɪən
Marxian
ˈmɑːksɪən
Ossian
ˈɒsɪən
Piscean
ˈpaɪsɪən
Premonstratensian
ˌpriːˌmɒnstrəˈtɛnsɪən
Procyon
ˈprəʊsɪən
Waldensian
wɒlˈdensɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BORGESIAN

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Borgerhout
Borges
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borghetto
Borgia
Borglum
borgo
boric
boric acid
boride
boring
boring machine
boring mill
boringly
boringness
Boris bike

WORDS THAT END LIKE BORGESIAN

Asian
Austronesian
Bayesian
Cartesian
Ephesian
etesian
Friesian
Hobbesian
Indonesian
Keynesian
magnesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Melanesian
Micronesian
Milesian
Peloponnesian
Polynesian
Rhodesian
Salesian
Silesian
Southern Rhodesian

Synonyms and antonyms of Borgesian in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Borgesian» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

博尔赫斯
1,325 millions of speakers

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borgiano
570 millions of speakers

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Borgesian
510 millions of speakers

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Borgesian
380 millions of speakers
ar

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Borgesian
280 millions of speakers

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Borgesian
278 millions of speakers

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borgiana
270 millions of speakers

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Borgesian
260 millions of speakers

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Borges
220 millions of speakers

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Borgesian
190 millions of speakers

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Borges
180 millions of speakers

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ボルヘス的
130 millions of speakers

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Borgesian
85 millions of speakers

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Borgesian
85 millions of speakers
vi

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Borgesian
80 millions of speakers

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Borgesian
75 millions of speakers

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बोर्गेसियन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Borges´vari
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

borgesiano
65 millions of speakers

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Borgesian
50 millions of speakers

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Borgesian
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

borgesiană
30 millions of speakers
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Borgesian
15 millions of speakers
af

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Borgesian
14 millions of speakers
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Borgesian
10 millions of speakers
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Borgesian
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Borgesian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BORGESIAN»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Borgesian

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BORGESIAN»

Discover the use of Borgesian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Borgesian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on ...
In the first book devoted to the impact made by Borges on the contemporary aesthetic imagination, Aizenberg brings together specially commissioned essays from international scholars in a variety of disciplines to provide a wide-ranging ...
Edna Aizenberg, 1990
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Peripheral (post) Modernity: The Syncretist Aesthetics of ...
Notwithstanding that Kyriakidis had been already influenced by Borges' philosophical and literary universe whose themes and tenets he had elaborated in Identity Data and The Plural Monologue, it was in the mid-1980s when Borgesian ...
Eleni Kefala, 2007
3
Mirrors of Ink: Borgesian Re-presentations
Comprising a critical theory piece and a reflexive novella, Mirrors of ink reflects upon the literary works of Jorge Luis Borges to innovatively articulate Borgesian theories of representation, influence and creativity.
David J. Ling, 2010
4
Latin American Philosophy: Currents, Issues, Debates
I referred specifically to Borges in Postmodernidad y Latinoamérica (con un modelo para la narrativa postmoderna), which was published in several journals beginning in 1990.7 The following are the most important features of Borgesian ...
Eduardo Mendieta, 2003
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The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
One place we might locate the Borgesian stream flowing into the fantastical genres is through the works of Philip K. Dick and others who followed him in creating unreliable realities. However, close inspection shows these fantastical realities to ...
Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, 2012
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The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges
A cheekier insertion comes in Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1986 film The Name of the Rose (after, of course, Umberto Eco's splendid 1980 novel) in which the key to a very Borgesian murder mystery is revealed to lie with the blind old librarian, the ...
Edwin Williamson, 2013
7
Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, ...
It highlights the Borgesian understanding and use of intertextuality. There are, however, distortions of Borges, which are specific. Al-RikébT collapses the Borgesian sense of originality on the all-too-familiar Arab notion of rootedness in  ...
Wen-chin Ouyang, 2013
8
Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge ...
In a sense "Elogio de la sombra" is the typical Borgesian poem, summing up the canonically Borgesian with creative hindsight. After the example of "Elogio de la sombra," Borges's fictive constructions will be seen to maintain a lyrical vein that  ...
Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, 2009
9
Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature Since 1967
It highlights the Borgesian understanding and use of intertextuality. There are, however, distortions of Borges, which are specific: in fact, al-RikabT collapses the Borgesian sense of originality on the all-too-familiar Arab notion of rootedness in  ...
Luc-Willy Deheuvels, Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, Paul Starkey, 2006
10
Borges 2.0: From Text to Virtual Worlds
Nick Monfort, The New Media Reader A Chronology of Borgesian Themes in Digital Works In the previous chapters, I have examined the intimate relationship among Borges' s "The Library of Babel" and "The Garden of Forking Paths," ...
Perla Sasson-Henry, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BORGESIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Borgesian is used in the context of the following news items.
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Borges's widow threatens remixer with prison
... copyright laws provide for prison sentences for "intellectual property fraud" -- in this case, rewriting a Borges short story in Borgesian fashion ... «Boing Boing, Jul 15»
2
PEN comes to defence of Borges 'plagiarist'
... more than double to the original until reaching 9,600 words, turning the Borgesian short story into a pragmatic operation. No more, no less. «Buenos Aires Herald, Jul 15»
3
Argentine Author Faces Prison Sentence for “Plagiarising” Borges in …
More likely than not to be aware of this Borgesian playfulness, Argentine author Pablo Katchadjian decided in 2009 to remix one of Borges's ... «Books LIVE, Jul 15»
4
Whose Borges?
A Quixotic enterprise, you might think, or at least a Menardian one, if not quite a Borgesian one. Borges wrote about people undertaking such ... «London Review of Books, Jul 15»
5
Apple Music Is The New iPod And The Old Record Store
Terrible, because 30 million songs is more of a Borgesian library than a collection. Daunting and tough to navigate, it's a library where earnest ... «BuzzFeed News, Jun 15»
6
Curiosity by Alberto Manguel, review: 'exhilarating and exhausting'
... with the publication of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (in collaboration with Gianni Guadalupi), a Borgesian book if there ever was one. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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Re-working Borges is a legitimate experiment, not a crime
More likely than not to be aware of this Borgesian playfulness, Argentine ... for the writer of Pierre Menard and engaged him in Borgesian terms, ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
8
A Book Buyer's Lament
... capacious as any Borgesian library. I appreciate the felicitous recommendations based on my purchasing history. I like being greeted, “Hello, ... «The New Yorker, Jun 15»
9
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud review – an instant …
The theatrical monologue is sometimes Beckettian, sometimes (in its self-referential intricacy and intertextuality) Borgesian, and always ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
10
LA Film Festival Review: 'El Elefante Desaparecido' a puzzling …
... Elephant),” is being described as a hybrid film noir and, like many Latin American stories with surreal elements, a Borgesian labyrinth. «LA Daily News, Jun 15»

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