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Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory

Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels

By: Earl E. Fitz

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Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory

Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels

By: Earl E. Fitz

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 narrative cannot escape being elusive and ambiguous in terms of meaning. It is from this discovery about the nature of language as a self-referential semiotic system that Machado crafts his “new narrative.” Long celebrated in Brazil as a dazzlingly original writer, Machado has struggled to gain respect and attention outside the Luso-Brazilian ken. He is the epitome of the “outsider” or “marginal,” the iconoclastic and wildly innovative genius who hails from a culture rarely studied in the Western literary hierarchy and so consigned to the status of “eccentric.” Had the Brazilian master written not in Portuguese but English, French, or German, he would today be regarded as one of the true exemplars of the modern novel, in expression as well as in theory. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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1684481147

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The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

From Their Origins through the Nineteenth Century

By: Earl E. Fitz

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The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

From Their Origins through the Nineteenth Century

By: Earl E. Fitz

In this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl E. Fitz provides the first book in English to analyze the Portuguese- and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering valuable insights about both. Fitz works by comparisons and contrasts: the political and cultural situation at the end of the fifteenth century in Spain and Portugal; the indigenous American cultures encountered by the Spanish and Portuguese and their legacy of influence; the documented discoveries of Colón and Caminha; the colonial poetry of Mexico’s Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Brazil’s Gregório de Matos; culminating in a meticulous evaluation of the poetry of Nicaragua’s Rubén Darío and the prose fiction of Brazil’s Machado de Assis. Fitz, an award-winning scholar of comparative literature, contends that at the end of the nineteenth century, Latin America produced two great literary revolutions, both unique in the western hemisphere, and best understood together.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813950023

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Machado de Assis and Female Characterization

The Novels

By: Earl E. Fitz

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Machado de Assis and Female Characterization

The Novels

By: Earl E. Fitz

This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that Machado had a particular interest in female characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly sophisticated and complex as he matured and developed as a writer and social commentator. This book argues that Machado developed, especially after 1880 (and what is usually considered the beginning of his “mature” period), a kind of anti-realistic, “new narrative,” one that presents itself as self-referential fictional artifice but one that also cultivates a keen social consciousness. The book also contends that Machado increasingly uses his female characterizations to convey this social consciousness and to show that the new Brazil that is emerging both before and after the establishment of the Brazilian Republic (1889) requires not only the emancipation of the black slaves but the emancipation of its women as well.

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Bucknell University Press

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1611486211

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Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America

A Comparative Assessment

By: Judith A. Payne,Earl E. Fitz

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Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America

A Comparative Assessment

By: Judith A. Payne,Earl E. Fitz

In this first book-length study to compare the "new novels" of both Spanish America and Brazil, the authors deftly examine the differing perceptions of ambiguity as they apply to questions of gender and the participation of females and males in the establishment of Latin American narrative models. Their daring thesis: the Brazilian new novel developed a more radical form than its better-known Spanish-speaking cousin because it had a significantly different approach to the crucial issues of ambiguity and gender and because so many of its major practitioners were women. As a wise strategy for assessing the canonical new novels from Latin America, the coupling of ambiguity and gender enables Payne and Fitz to discuss how borders--literary, generic, and cultural--are maintained, challenged, or crossed. Their conclusions illuminate the contributions of the new novel in terms of experimental structures and narrative techniques as well as the significant roles of voice, theme, and language. Using Jungian theory and a poststructural optic, the authors also demonstrate how the Latin American new novel faces such universal subjects as myth, time, truth, and reality. Perhaps the most original aspect of their study lies in its analysis of Brazil's strong female tradition. Here, issues such as alternative visions, contrasexuality, self-consciousness, and ontological speculation gain new meaning for the future of the novel in Latin America. With its comparative approach and its many bilingual quotations, Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America offers an engaging picture of the marked differences between the literary traditions of Portuguese-speaking and Spanish-speaking America and, thus, new insights into the distinctive mindsets of these linguistic cultures.

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University of Iowa Press

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1587291827

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Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector

The Différance of Desire

By: Earl E. Fitz

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Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector

The Différance of Desire

By: Earl E. Fitz

Driven by an unfulfilled desire for the unattainable, ultimately indefinable Other, the protagonists of the novels and stories of acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector exemplify and humanize many of the issues central to poststructuralist thought, from the nature of language, truth, and meaning to the unstable relationships between language, being, and reality. In this book, Earl Fitz demonstrates that, in turn, poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all aspects of Lispector's writing, including her style, sense of structure, characters, themes, and socio-political conscience. Fitz draws on Lispector's entire oeuvre—novels, stories, crônicas, and children's literature—to argue that her writing consistently reflects the basic tenets of poststructuralist theory. He shows how Lispector's characters struggle over and humanize poststructuralist dilemmas and how their essential sense of being is deeply dependent on a shifting, and typically transgressive, sense of desire and sexuality.

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University of Texas Press

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029278922X

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The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

From Their Origins through the Nineteenth Century

By: Earl E. Fitz

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From Their Origins through the Nineteenth Century

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Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector

The Différance of Desire

By: Earl E. Fitz

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The Différance of Desire

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The protagonists of the novels and stories of Clarice Lispector exemplify and humanise many of the issues central to poststructuralist thought. This work demonstrates that poststructuralism offers insights into all aspects of Lispector's writing.

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Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory

Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels

By: Earl E. Fitz

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Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels

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Machado de Assis and Female Characterization

The Novels

By: Earl E. Fitz

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The Novels

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Bucknell University Press

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Brazilian Narrative Traditions in a Comparative Context

By: Earl E. Fitz

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Brazilian Narrative Traditions in a Comparative Context

By: Earl E. Fitz

In the first volume of the MLA series World Literatures Reimagined, Earl E. Fitz examines the complex relation between Brazil and the United States: the colonial similarities and differences; the shared issues of slavery and racism; the mutual influences; and the political, economic, and cultural interactions, sometimes troubling, between the two nations. He also provides an extensive overview of Brazilian narrative, tracing its roots in both European and indigenous traditions, and of Brazilian literature in English translation.

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Book's by Earl E. Fitz

Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory

Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory

The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

Machado de Assis and Female Characterization

Machado de Assis and Female Characterization

Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America

Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America

Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector

Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector

The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector

Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector

Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory

Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory

Machado de Assis and Female Characterization

Machado de Assis and Female Characterization

Brazilian Narrative Traditions in a Comparative Context

Brazilian Narrative Traditions in a Comparative Context

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