Machado de Assis
toward a poetics of emulation
- Paperback
307 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2015
Summary
This book offers an alternative explanation for one of the core dilemmas of Brazilian literary criticism: the “midlife crisis” Machado de Assis underwent from 1878 to 1880, the result of which was the writing of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, as well as the remarkable production of his mature years—with an emphasis on his masterpiece, Dom Casmurro. At the center of this alternative explanation, Castro Rocha situates the fallout from the success enjoyed by Eça de Queirós with the pub…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781611861815 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1611861810 |
| Series: | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture |
| Author: | Flora Thomson-DeVeaux, João Cezar de Castro Rocha |
| Publisher: | Michigan State University Press |
| Imprint: | Michigan State University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 307 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“Acute, captivating, beautifully written and translated, this is a masterly reinterpretation of one of the world’s greatest novelists. By subtle close reading and a groundbreaking, innovative approach, João Cezar de Castro Rocha unfolds in front of our eyes the subtle, ramified, mimetic complexity of Machado de Assis’s genius, along with the anxieties of its formation.” —Pierpaolo Antonello, University of Cambridge
About The Author
Flora Thomson-DeVeaux
João Cezar de Castro Rocha is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. He is the Endowed Chair Machado de Assis of Latin American Studies (Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana / Brazilian Embassy, Mexico, 2010), and he has edited more than twenty books, among which are a collection of six volumes of Machado de Assis’s short stories.
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