Machado de Assis : toward a poetics of emulation / João Cezar de Castro Rocha ; translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rocha, João Cezar de Castro, author.

Contributor:

Thomson-DeVeaux, Flora, translator.

Series:

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture

Standardized Title:

Machado de Assis, por uma poetica da emulação. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machado de Assis, 1839-1908--Criticism and interpretation.

Machado de Assis.

Imitation in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Contents; Translator's Note; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Paradox of the Ur-Author; Chapter 1. The Shipwreck of Illusions; Chapter 2. In the Middle of the Way There Was an Author; Chapter 3. Toward a Poetics of Emulation; Chapter 4. The Decisive Years; Chapter 5. Forms of Emulation; Conclusion. Echoes of Paris?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Translation of: Machado de Assis, por uma poetica da emulação.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 3, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60917-468-2

OCLC:

918993059