Retratos de Machado de Assis : sabedoria, genialidade e melancolia na crítica literária fin de siècle

• Autor(a) principal: Aguiar, Mauricio Maia
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15455
• topic: Machado de Assis; Sociability; Literary criticism; Machado de Assis; Sociabilidade; Crítica literária; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA

The object of this thesis on Brazilian social thought is the literary criticism of the works of Machado de Assis published in newspapers and magazines immediately after the release of each of his books. Thus, they are literary criticism written by the contemporaries of Machado de Assis that stresses the scenario and the interaction patterns experienced by the artists and intellectuals from that period in their reviews. They also show the comprehension of literature and of the artist that are part of their analytical repertoire. Recurring to the categories utilized to interpret Machado de Assis, this essay aims at identifying the transformation that occurred in those patterns of social interaction from that period and how intellectual and artistic sociability - initially bonded to the pattern of courtesan taste established in Rio de Janeiro - lost space to other interaction patterns and thus allowed the development of different comprehensions of literature and the role of literary criticism, directly contributing to the change in rhetorical discourses of literary reviews. Thus, this essay tries to understand the rhetorical models that were present in the criticism and how these discourses are related to more profound transformations of order, mainly the process of social modernization and the construction of the autonomy of artistic and intellectual universe of the late nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century