Affect and realism in contemporary Brazilian fiction:

This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book...

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Main Author: Schøllhammer, Karl Erik ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Other Authors: Oliveira, Marco Alexandre de 1961- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Anthem Press 2020
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Summary:This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and political role of literature and art in the twentieth century. In contemporary Brazilian prose, two simultaneous ambitions are often reconciled. The commitment to individual or social reality is a challenge that is assumed without thereby necessarily accepting and following the molds of the traditional search for national or cultural identities. This foundation is one of the constants of contemporary prose, without thereby eliminating the continuous existence of a formal experimentalism that is the clearest heir of the modernist project
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 132 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785275579

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