The Svaglic Chair Fall 2021 Lecture
Typographic Transcriptions:
Representing Jorge Luis Borges’s Manuscripts
Friday, 9/30, 4:30-6:00 PM
Information Commons, 4th floor
A collaborative presentation by Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh) and María Celeste Martín (Emily Carr University of Art + Design)
Inspired by new collaborations by scholars and artists, Balderston and Martín have put together three volumes of facsimile editions of Borges’s manuscripts found in libraries in the United States and presented them with typographical transcriptions (Martín) and commentaries (Balderston). In 2018 they published Poemas y prosas breves, with twenty poems by Borges from early in his career until after he had gone blind. In 2019 this was followed by Ensayos, a collection of five essay manuscripts, which includes an extensive unpublished manuscript by Borges on Flaubert (in a critical edition done in collaboration with Mariana Di Ció). The third and final volume, Cuentos, which just appeared this past month, includes manuscripts of four stories and a typescript.
Building on a decade of research by Balderston on Borges manuscripts and prior collaborations on the design of the journal Variaciones Borges, these books, published by the Borges Center at the University of Pittsburgh, make available rare Borges manuscripts for study, while exploring the technical and artistic possibilities of graphic design in the representation of Borges’s tiny handwriting and complex compositional practices. In today’s presentation, Balderston and Martín will consider the unique challenges and allure of Borges’s manuscripts as well as their own innvative collaborative process. Their work addresses scholars and readers of Borges and Spanish-language literature, textual scholars, typographers and designers, and all those seeking to re-imagine the book in light of emerging digital materialities. The talk will be delivered in English
For more information, please contact Marta Werner.
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Students
- Agamben and the Existentialists, a collection of essays co-edited by Marcos Norris and his dissertation committee member Colby Dickinson, will be published this month by Edinburgh University Press. Agamben and the Existentialists opens the lines of communication between contemporary political philosopher Giorgio Agamben and the existentialist tradition. The volume brings Agamben into close conversation with the major figures of existentialism to reimagine his oeuvre in light of key existentialist themes. The book can be preordered via Edinburgh University Press.
Alumni
- Lowell Wyse (PhD 2018) released Ecospatiality: A Place-Based Approach to American Literature via the University of Iowa Press in July 2021. It is based on Dr. Wyse's 2018 dissertation, written with Jack Kerkering, Paul Jay, and Suzanne Bost. Ecospatiality "explores modern and contemporary American prose literature through the lens of place, showing how authors like William Least Heat-Moon, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, and Leslie Marmon Silko represent and reimagine real places in the world and the human-environment relationships therein." Early reviews have praised the book as "a comprehensive introduction to the field of place-conscious literary studies" and an "impressively comprehensive [contribution of] innovative readings of American authors and American landscapes." The full precis and publication details are available via the University of Iowa Press.
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