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Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory
Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels
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Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2019
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This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates, between 1880 and 1908, a “new narrative,” one that will presage the groundbreaking theories of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure by showing how even the language of narrative cannot escape being elusive and ambiguous in terms of meaning. It is from this discovery about the nature of language as a self-referential semiotic system that Machado crafts his “new narrative.” Long celebrated in Brazil as a dazzlingly original writer, Machado has struggled to gain respect and attention outside the Luso-Brazilian ken. He is the epitome of the “outsider” or “marginal,” the iconoclastic and wildly innovative genius who hails from a culture rarely studied in the Western literary hierarchy and so consigned to the status of “eccentric.” Had the Brazilian master written not in Portuguese but English, French, or German, he would today be regarded as one of the true exemplars of the modern novel, in expression as well as in theory.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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EARL E. FITZ is a professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and comparative literature at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
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"A masterwork of original and seminal scholarship that rescues a critically important Latin American writer from an undeserved obscurity."
— Midwest Book Review"Fitz’s study provides a strong argument for why scholars interested in narrative theory and form should give, if not renewed, then new attention to the work of Machado de Assis."
— Bulletin of Spanish Studies"Along with the translation of more works by Brazilian writers and scholars alike, books like Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory pave the way for the reception of literary works that, otherwise, remain regrettably off the radar even among many in academia."
— Hispanic ReviewIs Machado de Assis a theoretician of the novel? Earl Fitz’s book is a fascinating response to such a question. In this exciting journey through the writer’s late novels, we learn that Machado didn’t tell us what he was thinking; differently, he showed us the very act of thinking through language. It’s worth reading: Fitz’s passion for Machado is contagious.
— Pedro Meira Monteiro, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University"Earl Fitz’s book should be appreciated as a complement to the many other excellent studies of Machado’s relation to a plentiful external landscape. Lest we become overly confident about our ability to know these realities, we should pause and, considering perspectives like those of this book, clean our glasses."
— Journal of Lusophone Studies"Earl E. Fitz advances the question of language as key to innovation and modernity in the mature works of Machado de Assis. Fitz attributes his departure from realism to a new awareness of the mutability, instability, self-referentiality and inescapable ambiguity of language in relation to meaning. What the novels are really about is not what they seem."
— K. David Jackson, Yale UniversityFachgebiete
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Frontmatter
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Abbreviations
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A Note on Translations
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Introduction
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1. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
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2. The Psychiatrist
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3. Quincas Borba
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4. Dom Casmurro
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5. Esau and Jacob
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6. Counselor Ayres’ Memorial
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Conclusion
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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About the author
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
20. Januar 2020
eBook ISBN:
9781684481163
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eBook ISBN:
9781684481163
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
Machado de Assis; theory; narrative; brazillian literature; modernism; modernity; saussure; latin america; novel; assis; 19th century fiction; modern novel narrative language; french symbolism; ferdinand de saussure; modernist theory; iconoclastic writer; global modernism; semiotics; ambiguity; language and meaning; comparative literature; narrative form; outsider genius; luso-brazilian canon; portugese literature; latin america literature; semiotic system; literary innovation; symbolist poetry; western literary theory
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
