García-Caro, PedroPeñalosa Montero, Marina2024-12-192024-12-192024-12-19https://hdl.handle.net/1794/30276In An Intellectual Field in Tension. The Other Borges, I focus on the intellectual role of Jorge Luis Borges to explore how the author's lectures shaped Borges as a canonical Argentine writer, through the global evolution of his role in the intellectual field. The project seeks to address Borges' efforts to occupy a privileged position in the public sphere in the microcosm of the cultural field. I analyze the context of the cultural events from the 1920s to the late 1980s in Argentina through the lenses of literary analysis and cultural sociology. The role of intellectuals was as crucial to the State as a nation-building strategy as it was for the politicians, professors, writers… that occupied the cultural field of the city. The promotion of cultural and literary events was marked by an influence of European modernism that gave the intellectuals the space for promotion, dissemination, and later, a powerful position inside the cultural field. In the case of Borges, we can also find elements that help us understand Borges' lectures as a paradigm of a narrative genre in the River Plate. As the national writer for Argentina, Borges gave talks and lectures in an international setting. The talks were published first in the newspapers and later as books, switching the direction of the text from the public audience to an intentional reader. This work responds to the questions: what is the context of those first in-person events in terms of social power? How did the institutions switch the mode of the discourse to spread Borges' ideas internationally?en-USAll Rights Reserved.ArgentinaCampo culturalConferenciasJorge Luis BorgesSociología culturalElectronic Thesis or Dissertation