On literature and society / Antonio Candido ; translated, edited, and introduced by Howard S. Becker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cândido, Antônio, 1918-2017, author.

Contributor:

Becker, Howard S. (Howard Saul), 1928-2023, translator, editor.

Series:

Princeton legacy library

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society.

Literature and society--Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience a collection of the provocative work of Antonio Candido, one of the leading men of letters in Brazil. Trained as a sociologist, Candido conceives of literature as a social project and is equally at home in textual analyses, discussions of literary theory, and sociological, anthropological, and historical argument. It would be impossible to overstate his impact on the intellectual life of his own country, and on Latin American scholars who can read Portuguese, but he is little known in the rest of the world. In literary, women's, and cultural studies, as well as in sociology, this book contributes a sophisticated and unusual perspective that will dazzle readers unfamiliar with Candido's work.Emphasizing the breadth of Candido's interests, the essays include those on European literature (Dumas, Conrad, Kafka, and Cavafy, for example), on Brazilian literature (Machado de Assis and others), on Brazilian cultural life and politics, and on general problems of criticism (the relations between sociology and criticism, and the problem of literature in underdeveloped countries). Of particular interest is a long piece on Teresina Carini Rocchi, an Italian immigrant to Brazil, who was a lifelong socialist.Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-63590-0

0-691-60731-1

0-691-03630-6

1-4008-6398-8

OCLC:

889252512