{"title":"Compositional Convergence in Whitman and Borges","authors":"Nora Benedict","doi":"10.1353/rmc.2023.a919737","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Jorge Luis Borges's interest in and admiration for Walt Whitman has been well-documented and studied. However, there has been no consideration of the overlaps in their writing practices. In this paper, I place two early manuscripts, one by Whitman (1855) and another by Borges (c. 1929), in conversation as a way to highlight their shared compositional methods. In particular, I show how their conception of physical books exhibits what I call compositional convergence, or the independent evolution of similar ways of thinking about the structure of books in different moments in time.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42940,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE NOTES","volume":"128 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ROMANCE NOTES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmc.2023.a919737","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, ROMANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Jorge Luis Borges's interest in and admiration for Walt Whitman has been well-documented and studied. However, there has been no consideration of the overlaps in their writing practices. In this paper, I place two early manuscripts, one by Whitman (1855) and another by Borges (c. 1929), in conversation as a way to highlight their shared compositional methods. In particular, I show how their conception of physical books exhibits what I call compositional convergence, or the independent evolution of similar ways of thinking about the structure of books in different moments in time.
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