Abstract:

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.

中文翻译：

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惠特曼和博尔赫斯的构图趋同

摘要：

豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯对沃尔特·惠特曼的兴趣和钦佩已被充分记录和研究。然而，并没有考虑到他们写作实践中的重叠。在本文中，我将两份早期手稿，一份是惠特曼（Whitman，1855 年）的手稿，另一份是博尔赫斯（Borges，约 1929 年）的手稿，放在对话中，以突出他们共同的创作方法。我特别展示了他们对实体书的概念如何展现出我所说的“构图趋同”，或者说在不同时刻对书籍结构的类似思考方式的独立演变。