Machado de Assis : a literary life /: a literary life. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: K. David Jackson.
• Authors: Jackson, K. David (Kenneth David)
• Contents: The literary world of Machado de Assis -- The wizard of Cosme Velho -- The formative period -- Novels of the 1870s -- The literary modernism of Machado de Assis -- Reading Machado de Assis. Machado's pendulum -- Breaking the frame: the rhetoric of substitution -- Machado's world library -- Time's invisible fabric: telling what cannot be said, saying what cannot be told -- Three exemplary modes. Theater and opera: Machado's operatic theater of the world -- Delirium, hallucination, and dream: flying through time on a delirious trapeze -- Humanitas and satire: Machado's mad philosopher -- The actor-authors -- Brás Cubas, Basso Buffo -- Bento Santiago's grand dissimulation -- The love-death theme of Counselor Ayres -- Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 869.3/3; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300182644; 0300182643
• Related ISBNs: 9780300180824; 0300180829
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.