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Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The National Interest, No. 51, Spring, 1988, Washington, D.C. © The National Interest. Reproduced with permission.—The New Criterion, v. 18, November, 1999 for “Jorge Luis Borge and the Plural I” by Eric Ormsby. Copyright © 1999 by The Foundation for Cultural Review. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The New Novel Review, v. 4, Spring, 1997 for “The Nature of Postmodern Time in Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘Theme of the Traitor and Hero’ and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s ‘The Man Who Lies’” by Anthony N. Fragola. Copyright © 1997 by The New Novel Review. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The New York Times, April 19, 1998 for “Imagining a Life After the Unimaginable” by Thane Rosenbaum. Copyright © 1998 by Thane Rosenbaum. Reprinted by permission of the Ellen Levine Literary Agency, Inc., for the author.—The New York Times Book Review, v. 94, May 7, 1989 for “Strangers in the Universe” by Leonard Michaels. 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Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Philosophy and Literature, v. 19, October, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Political Quarterly, v. 67, January-March, 1996. © The Political Quarterly Publishing Co. Ltd. 1996. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.—Publishers Weekly, v. 194, September 2, 1968; v. 208, July 7, 1975; v. 220 September 4, 1981. Copyright © 1968, 1975, 1981 by Xerox Corporation. All reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by R. R. Bowker Company, a Xerox company, by permission.—Romance Notes, v. XXXI, Winter, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Romance Quarterly, v. 39, November, 1992. Copyright © 1992 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Salmagundi, Fall-Winter, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Skidmore College. 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Abe, Masao. From “The Influence of D. T. Suzuki in the West,” in A Zen Life: D. T. Suzuki Remembered. Edited by Masao Abe. John Weatherhill, Inc., 1986. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Aitken, Robert. From “Openness and Engagement: Memories of Dr. D. T. Suzuki,” in A Zen Life: D. T. Suzuki Remembered. Edited by Masao Abe. John Weatherhill, Inc., 1986. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Alazraki, Jaime. From “Borges and the Kabbalah,” in Borges and the Kabbalah: And Other Essays on His Fiction and Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 1988. © Cambridge University Press 1988. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Balderston, Daniel. From “The ‘Fecal Dialectic’: Homosexual Panic and the Origin of Writing in Borges,” in ¿Entiendes? Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings. Edited by Emilie L. Bergmann and Paul Julian Smith. Duke University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—Barnstone, Willis. From “Borges, Poet of Ecstasy,” in Borges the Poet. Edited by Carlos Cortinez. The University of Arkansas Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas. Reproduced by permission of the editor.—Barrett, William. From “Zen for the West,” in Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki. Edited by William Barrett. Anchor Books, 1956. Copyright © 1956 by William Barrett. All rights reserved. Used by permission of the Estate of William Barrett.—Barry,
Norman P. From Hayek’s Social and Economic Philosophy. Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1979. Copyright © 1979 by Norman P. Barry. Reproduced by permission of Macmillan, London and Basingstoke.—Butler, Eamonn. From Hayek, His Contribution to the Political and Economic Thought of Our Time. Universe Books, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Eamonn Butler. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Cottle, Basil. From The Language of Literature: English Grammar in Action. Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Basil Cottle. Reproduced by permission of Macmillan, London and Basingstoke.—Fader, Larry A. From “D. T. Suzuki’s Contribution to the West,” in A Zen Life: D. T. Suzuki Remembered. Edited by Masao Abe. John Weatherhill, Inc., 1986. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Graciela, Palau de Nemes. From “Modernismo and Borges,” in Borges the Poet. Edited by Carlos Cortinez. The University of Arkansas Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas. Reproduced by permission of the editor.—Gray, John. From “The Twentieth Century: The Limits of Liberal Political Philosophy,” in An Uncertain Legacy: Essays on the Pursuit of Liberty. Edited by Edward B. McLean. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Reproduced by permission.—Klein, Ilona. From “‘Official Science Often Lacks Humility’: Humor, Science and Technology in Levi’s Storie Naturali,” in Reason and Light: Essays on Primo Levi. Edited by Susan Tarrow. The Center for International Studies, Cornell University, 1990. © Ilona Klein. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Kushigian, Julia A. From Orientalism in the Hispanic Literary Tradition. The University of New Mexico Press, 1991. © 1991 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lagos, Ramona. From “The Return of the Repressed: Objects in Borges’ Literature,” in Borges the Poet. Edited by Carlos Cortinez. The University of Arkansas Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas. Reproduced by permission of the editor.—Merrell, Floyd. From Unthinking Thinking. Purdue University Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Read, Malcolm K. From Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors or Notes Towards a Materalist History of Linguistic Idealism. The University of North Carolina Press, 1993. © 1993. Department of Romance Languages. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Used by permission of the publisher.—Salgado, César Augusto. From “Barroco Joyce: Jorge Luis Borges’s and José Lezama Lima’s Antagonistic Readings,” in Transcultural Joyce. Cambridge University Press, 1998. © Cambridge University Press 1998. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Sarlo, Beatriz. From Borges, a Writer on the Edge. Verso, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Verso. Reproduced by permission.—Sarlo, Beatriz. From “Borges: Tradition and the Avant-Garde,” in Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America. Edited by Anthony L. Geist and Jose B. Monleon. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999. Copyright © 1999 from Modernism and Its Margins edited by Anthony L. Geist and Jose B. Monleon. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis, Inc., http://www.routledge-ny.com, and the author.—Shearmur, Jeremy. From “The Austrian Connection: Hayek’s Liberalism and the Thought of Carl Menger,” in Austrian Economics. Edited by Wolfgang Grassl and Barry Smith. New York University Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Wolfgang Grassl and Barry Smith. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Shimomura, Torataro. From “D. T. Suzuki’s Place in the History of Human Thought,” in A Zen Life: D. T. Suzuki Remembered. Edited by Masao Abe. John Weatherhill, Inc., 1986. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Shumway, Nicholas. From “Eliot, Borges, and Tradition,” in Borges the Poet. Edited by Carlos Cortinez. The University of Arkansas Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas. Reproduced by permission of the editor.—Strong, Beret E. From The Poetic Avant-Garde: The Groups of Borges, Auden, and Breton. Northwestern University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Northwestern University Press. Reproduced by permission.
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