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 18...

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1. Verfasser:	Fitz, Earl E. (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaft:	Bucknell University Press
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Schriftenreihe:	Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
Schlagworte:	Machado de Assis, > 1839-1908. Machado de Assis, > 1839-1908 > Technique. Machado de Assis, > 1839-1908 Narration (Rhetoric) Narration. 18.38 Portuguese-American literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. Technique Brazil.
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	1684481163 9781684481163