Further Reading
- Agheana, Ion T., The Prose of Jorge Luis Borges. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1984, 320 p. (Examination of existentialist elements in Borges's fiction.)
- Aizenberg, Edna, ed., Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990, 296 p. (Collection of essays that link postmodern texts to their roots in Borges's writing.)
- Alazraki, Jaime, Jorge Luis Borges. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971, 48 p. (Concise essay treating Borges's literary themes and world-view.)
- Balderston, Daniel, “Borges, Averroes, Aristotle: The Poetics of Poetics.” Hispania, Vol. 79, No. 2 (May 1996): 201–07. (Explores Borges's postulation of the absolute dependency of language on context for meaning.)
- Bell-Villada, Gene H., Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981, 292 p. (Chronological examination of Borges's works.)
- Borges, Jorge Luis, "Foreword." In Homage to Walt Whitman: A Collection of Poems from the Spanish, translated and annotated by Didier Tisdel Jaén, pp. xiii-xvii. University of Alabama Press, 1969. (Borges discusses Whitman's influential weaving together of biography and myth.)
- Botsford, Keith, "About Borges and Not About Borges." The Kenyon Review XXVI, No. 4 (Autumn 1964): 723-37. (Combines interview notes and personal ideas to present a characterization of Borges.)
- Burgin, Richard, "Tales and Meanings; Favorite Poems; The Gifts of Unhappiness; A Girl from Buenos Aires; Homer; Parables …" In Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, pp. 66-80. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. (Burgin and Borges discuss the latter's favorite poems and parables.)
- Cheselka, Paul, The Poetry and Poetics of Jorge Luis Borges. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1987, 197 p. (Study of Borges's poetry "from his first ultraist poems published in Spain to the publication of Obra poetica 1923–1964.")
- Christ, Ronald J., The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Allusion. New York: New York University Press, 1969, 244 p. (Analysis of the "esthetic origin, development, and masterful practice" of Borges's use of allusion.)
- Collmer, Robert G., "Donne and Borges." Revue de Littérature Comparée 43, No. 2 (April-June 1969): 219-32. (Traces Borges's interest in the poetry of John Donne.)
- Foster, David William, Jorge Luis Borges: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1984, 328 p. (Scholarly in its depth and comprehensive in its range.)
- Loewenstein, C. Jared, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection at the University of Virginia Library. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1993, 254 p. (Catalogs a major collection dedicated to providing “reliable information about the origins and development of” Borges's texts.)
- McMurray, George R., Jorge Luis Borges. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1980, 255 p. (Thematic study of Borges's fiction.)
- Menocal, Maria Rosa, Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Bocaccio. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991, 223 p. (Adopting a Borgesian, non-linear approach to literary history, views Dante and Borges in a relation of reciprocal influence.)
- Molloy, Sylvia, "'The Coveter of Souls': A First Step toward Fiction." In Signs of Borges, pp. 10-11. Durham, N. C: Duke University Press, 1994. (Briefly studies the "textual voyeurism" of Borges's early poetry.)
- Monegal, E. R., Review of Selected Poems 1923-1967 and Doctor Brodie's Report. The New York Times Book Review, Part 1 (May 7, 1972): 4, 18. (Observes the sources and development of Borges's poetry.)
- Monegal, Emir Rodriguez, Jorge Luis Borges: A Literary Biography. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978, 502 p. (Detailed study of Borges's life and career.)
- Ortega, Julio, "Borges and the Latin-American Text," in Poetics of Change: The New Spanish-American Narrative. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984, pp. 20-32. (Examines Borges's works in the context of Spanish-American culture.)
- Review of Selected Poems 1923-1967. The New York Times Book Review, Section 7 (June 4, 1972): 29. (A positive assessment of Borges's collected poetry.)
- Stabb, Martin S., Jorge Luis Borges. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1970, 179 p. (General survey of Borges's life, career, and critical reception.)
- Sturrock, John, Paper Tigers: The Ideal Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977, 227 p. (Examination of Borges's theory of fiction, maintaining that the Argentinean author's stories are "formal to a degree that no writer of fiction, surely, has ever surpassed.")
- Woodall, James, Borges: A Life. New York: Basic Books, 1997, 333 p. (Contains significant scholarly tools, including bibliography and catalogs of travels, awards, and films based on his works, as well as a lucid account of life and work.)
- Yampolsky, Mikhail, “Voice Devoured: Artaud and Borges on Dubbing.” October 64 (Spring 1993): 57-77. (A structuralist perspective on film dubbing includes Borges's response to the results of the technique.)
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