Machado de Assis

Toward a Poetics of Emulation

AvJoão Cezar de Castro Rocha

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Del i serien Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture

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Beskrivning

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 publication of Cousin Basílio and Machado’s two long texts condemning the author and his work. Literary and aesthetic rivalries come to the fore, allowing for a new theoretical framework based on a literary appropriation of “thick description,” the method proposed by anthropologist Clifford Geertz. From this method, Castro Rocha derives his key hypothesis: an unforeseen consequence of Machado’s reaction to Eça’s novel was a return to the classical notion of aemulatio, which led Machado to develop a “poetics of emulation.”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-10-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
Antal sidor:307
Förlag:Michigan State University Press
ISBN:9781611861815
Översättare:Thomson-DeVeaux, Flora, Thomson-Deveaux, Flora

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Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

“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

Innehållsförteckning

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