Machado de Assis : a literary life /

Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this comprehensive English language examination of Machado, K. David Jackson re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jackson, K. David (Kenneth David) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Colección:Major figures in Spanish and Latin American literature and the arts.
Temas:
Machado de Assis, > 1839-1908 > Criticism and interpretation.
Machado de Assis, > 1839-1908.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The literary world of Machado de Assis
  • The wizard of Cosme Velho
  • The formative period
  • Novels of the 1870s
  • The literary modernism of Machado de Assis
  • Reading Machado de Assis. Machado's pendulum
  • Breaking the frame: the rhetoric of substitution
  • Machado's world library
  • Time's invisible fabric: telling what cannot be said, saying what cannot be told
  • Three exemplary modes. Theater and opera: Machado's operatic theater of the world
  • Delirium, hallucination, and dream: flying through time on a delirious trapeze
  • Humanitas and satire: Machado's mad philosopher
  • The actor-authors
  • Brás Cubas, Basso Buffo
  • Bento Santiago's grand dissimulation
  • The love-death theme of Counselor Ayres
  • Conclusion.

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