Schwarz / Fish / Jameson A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism

Machado de Assis
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8080-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America in Translation

A translation of Schwarz's study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwarz, Roberto

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gledson, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Portugiesische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / John Gledson

Preface

1. Initial Observations

2. A Formal Principle

3. The Practical Matrix

4. Some Implications of the Prose

5. The Social Aspect of the Narrator and the Plot

6. The Fate of the Poor

7. The Rich on Their Own

8. The Role of Ideas

9. Questions of Form

10. Literary Accumulation in a Periferal Country

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roberto Schwarz, one of Brazil’s foremost literary and cultural critics, is the author of Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture and Duas Meninas. John Gledson is Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of two books about Machado de Assis and was the translator of Misplaced Ideas, the only other English translation of a work by Schwarz.