Machado de Assis
A Literary Life
1st Edition
Published on 26. May 2015
320 pages
978-0-300-18264-4 (ISBN)
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K. David Jackson is professor of Portuguese and director of undergraduate studies of Portuguese at Yale University. He lives in Woodbridge, CT.
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K. David Jackson is professor of Portuguese and director of undergraduate studies of Portuguese at Yale University. He lives in Woodbridge, CT.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE: The Literary World of Machado de Assis
- One: The Wizard of Cosme Velho
- Two: The Formative Period
- Three: Novels of the 1870s
- Four: The Literary Modernism of Machado de Assis
- PART TWO: Reading Machado de Assis
- Five: Machado's Pendulum
- Six: Breaking the Frame: The Rhetoric of Substitution
- Seven: Machado's World Library
- Eight: Time's Invisible Fabric: Telling What Cannot Be Said, Saying What Cannot Be Told
- PART THREE: Three Exemplary Modes
- Nine: Theater and Opera: Machado's Operatic Theater of the World
- Ten: Delirium, Hallucination, and Dream: Flying Through Time on a Delirious Trapeze
- Eleven: Humanitas and Satire: Machado's Mad Philosopher
- PART FOUR: The Actor-Authors
- Twelve: Brás Cubas, Basso Buffo
- Thirteen: Bento Santiago's Grand Dissimulation
- Fourteen: The Love-Death Theme of Counselor Ayres
- PART FIVE: Conclusion
- Fifteen: Machado and the Spectacle of the World
- Notes
- A Note on Sources
- Credits
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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- I
- J
- K
- L
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- N
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- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
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