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Paperback Machado de Assis: Toward a Poetics of Emulation Book

ISBN: 1611861810

ISBN13: 9781611861815

Machado de Assis: Toward a Poetics of Emulation

(Part of the Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture (SVMC) Series)

This book offers an alternative explanation for one of the core dilemmas of Brazilian literary criticism: the "midlife crisis" Machado de Assis underwent from 1878 to 1880, the result of which was the writing of The Posthumous Memoirs of Br s Cubas, as well as the remarkable production of his mature years--with an emphasis on his masterpiece, Dom Casmurro.

At the center of this alternative explanation, Castro Rocha situates the fallout from the success enjoyed by E a de Queir s with the publication of Cousin Bas lio and Machado's two long texts condemning the author and his work. Literary and aesthetic rivalries come to the fore, allowing for a new theoretical framework based on a literary appropriation of "thick description," the method proposed by anthropologist Clifford Geertz. From this method, Castro Rocha derives his key hypothesis: an unforeseen consequence of Machado's reaction to E a's novel was a return to the classical notion of aemulatio, which led Machado to develop a "poetics of emulation."

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