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On literature and society / Antonio Candido ; translated, edited, and introduced by Howard S. Becker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cândido, Antônio, 1918-2017.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. English. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Literature and society.
- Literature and society--Brazil.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- Antonio Candido's is a world culture embodied in a locally rooted sensibility. Written in Portuguese, this 'tomb of thought, ' his work, which was a major influence on two generations of Brazilian scholars, will inspire Anglo-Saxon readers. They will admire Candido's elegantly sober style and his insights on the subtle relation between society and its literature. Literary critics, as much as authors, can truly be universal.
- Contents:
- On vengeance
- Catastrophe and survival
- Four waitings
- Repression's truth
- Dialectic of malandroism
- An outline of Machado de Assis
- Literature and underdevelopment
- Criticism and sociology : an attempt at clarification
- Teresina and her friends.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691036292
- 0691036306
- OCLC:
- 31045884
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