Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1684481120
ISBN13:9781684481125
Release Date:June 2019
Publisher:Bucknell University Press
Length:222 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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