Lisa Block de Behar (

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, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan professor of Linguistics and researcher in Literary Theory, Comparative Literature and Communication media. She holds a PhD from

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in Paris where she wrote a thesis about the Rhetoric of Silence. She was the director at the School of Communication, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, and professor of Semiotics and Theory of interpretation at the same Institution. She taught Linguistics and Literary Theory at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas (IPA). Currently she is professor of Analysis of Communication at the Facultad de Información y Comunicación, Universidad de la República. Her dissertation was published in Mexico titled ''Una retórica del silencio'' and won the

Xavier Villaurrutia Award The Xavier Villaurrutia Award (Premio Xavier Villaurrutia) is a prestigious literary prize given in Mexico, to a Latin American writer published in Mexico. Founded in 1955, it was named in memory of Xavier Villaurrutia. Multiple awards have been gi ...

in 1984. She has been visiting professor and lectured on semiotics, linguistics, literary theory, comparative literature, hermeneutics on different subjects at North-American, European, Latin-American an Israeli Universities. She was awarded two times the Fulbright Commission scholarship, was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Bloomington University, Indiana. Her most recent research is concerned with a poetics of disappearance, in relation to space and writing, a rhetoric of discursive negativity and how hermeneutics imagines literality. Block de Behar observes the transformation of the connection between showing and telling and the uncertainties that technology introduces in literary discourse and daily communication. The incidences of Jewish culture and thought are very present in Block de Behar's research. She is the author and editor of books on

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's cosmological phantasmagoria as well as on

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, Felisberto Hernández,

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and

Emir Rodríguez Monegal Emir Rodríguez Monegal (28 July 1921 – 14 November 1985), born in Uruguay, was a scholar, literary critic, and editor of Latin American literature. From 1969 to 1985, Rodríguez Monegal was professor of Latin American contemporary literatur ...

. In 2002 she received the

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"Prize Research Award" and in 2011 she was nominated Emeritus Professor of Spanish, Instituto de Profesores Artigas Montevideo, Uruguay, where she herself was a student and taught as professor. In 2017 she was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. DIGITAL LIBRARIES With the collaboration of colleagues and graduate students she created and is developing different digital libraries at the sit
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Bibliography

* ''Derroteros literarios. Temas y autores que se cruzan en tierras del Uruguay''. Universidad de la República/CSIC, Montevideo, 2015 * ''Borges, The Passion of an Endless Quotation''. SUNY Press. Second Edition, New York, 2014 * ''Borges, Bioy, Blanqui y las leyendas del nombre''. Siglo XXI Editores, México, 2011 * ''Medios, pantallas y otros lugares comunes. Sobre cambios e intercambios verbales y visuales en tiempos mediáticos'', Katz, Buenos Aires, 2009 * ''Adriana Contreras. Fragmentos de obra (en colaboración con Haroldo de Campos)'', Albedrío, México, 2001 * ''Borges. La pasión de una cita sin fin'', Siglo XXI Editores, México, 1999. Trad. inglesa: ''Borges. The passion of an endless quotation'', SUNY Press, New York, 2002 * ''Borges ou les gestes d'un voyant aveugle'', Champion, París, 1998 * ''Una palabra propiamente dicha'', Siglo XXI Editores, México y Buenos Aires, 1994 * ''Dos medios entre dos medios. Sobre la representación y sus dualidades'', Siglo XXI Editores, México y Buenos Aires, 1990 * ''Jules Laforgue o las metáforas del desplazamiento'', Montevideo, 1987. Trad. francesa: ''Jules Laforgue. Les métaphores du déplacement'', L'Harmattan, París, 2004 * ''Al margen de Borges'', Siglo XXI Editores. Buenos Aires y México, 1987. Trad. italiana: ''Al margine di Borges'', Edizioni dal Sud, Bari, 1997 * ''Una retórica del silencio. Funciones del lector y procedimientos de la lectura literaria'', Siglo XXI Editores, México, 1984. Trad. inglesa: ''A rhetoric of silence and other selected writings'', Mouton De Gruyter, Berlín, 1995 * ''El lenguaje de la publicidad'', Siglo XXI Editores, México y Buenos Aires, 1973 * ''Análisis de un lenguaje en crisis. Recursos del humor verbal en la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea'', Nuestra tierra, Montevideo, 1969

Editions, forewords and translations

* Louis-Auguste Blanqui: ''L'Éternité par les astres''. Seconde édition avec amendements at ajouts, édité avec une introduction et notes par Lisa Block de Behar, Slatkine, Genève, 2009 * ''Haroldo de Campos, Don de poesía: ensayos críticos sobre su obra''. Coordinación de Lisa Block de Behar, Linardi & Risso, Montevideo, 2009 * ''Cine y totalitarismo''. Lisa Block de Behar & Eduardo Rinesi (Editores), La Crujía, Buenos Aires, 2007 * ''France - Amérique latine: Croisements de lettres et de voies''. Sous la direction de Walter Bruno Berg & Lisa Block de Behar, L'Harmattan, París, 2007 * Emir Rodríguez Monegal: ''Obra selecta''. Prólogo y antología de Lisa Block de Behar, Biblioteca Ayacucho, Caracas, 2003 * ''Entre mitos & conocimiento''. Coordinación y prólogo de de Lisa Block de Behar, ICLA, Montevideo, 2003 * ''Comparative Literature Worldwide / La littérature comparée dans le monde''. Vol. II. Editor Lisa Block de Behar, ICLA, Montevideo, 2000 * Louis-Auguste Blanqui: ''La eternidad a través de los astros''. Traducción y prólogo de Lisa Block de Behar, Siglo XXI Editores, México, 2000 * ''Escrito sobre el cine''. Edición y prólogo de Lisa Block de Behar, CSIC, Montevideo, 1997 * Louis-Auguste Blanqui: ''L'Éternité par les astres''. Préface de Lisa Block de Behar, Slatkine, París/Genève, 1996 * ''De la amistad y otras coincidencias: Adolfo Bioy Casares en el Uruguay''. Coordinación de Lisa Block de Behar e Isidra Solari, CCIS, Montevideo, 1993 * ''Lautréamont y Laforgue: La cuestión de los orígenes/La quête des origines''. Editado por Lisa Block de Behar, François Caradec y Daniel Lefort, Academia Nacional de Letras, Montevideo, 1993 * ''Christian Metz y la teoría del cine''. Versión, Buenos Aires, 1992 * ''Términos de comparación. Los estudios literarios entre historias y teorías''. Edición y prólogo de Lisa Block de Behar, Academia Nacional de Letras, Montevideo, 1991 * ''Diseminario. La desconstrucción, otro descubrimiento de América''. Edición y prólogo de Lisa Block de Behar, xyz, Montevideo, 1987 * ''Emir Rodríguez Monegal. Homenaje''. Edición y prólogo de Lisa Block de Behar. Ministerio de educación y cultura, Montevideo, 1987. * Alberto Oreggioni, (dirección), ''Diccionario de literatura uruguaya'', vol. 1, Arca, 1987, pages 108-109 * ''Gran Enciclopedia del Uruguay'', vol. 1, El Observador, 2001, no page number * Miguel Ángel Campodónico, ''Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya'', Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, page 52

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