Machado de Assis, moral imagination and the novel

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Main Author: Passos,José Luiz
Publication Date: 2014
Format: Article
Language: eng
Source: Machado de Assis em Linha
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Summary: The article discusses the premise behind binding literary value to the ability a work has to yield socio-historical information, prevalent in recent criticism on Machado de Assis. It argues that the body of Machado's work shows an increasing ambivalence regarding the links between imagined lives and history, thus proposing that in his late writings the matching between things real and things represented is a rhetorical and melancholy gesture of great insight. In order to illustrate the prevalence of moral imagination as object and technique in Machado's late novels, the author highlights a few points of contact between Machado de Assis and Henry James, contemporaries and akin in their literary sensibilities.
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title Machado de Assis, moral imagination and the novel
spellingShingle Machado de Assis, moral imagination and the novel
Passos,José Luiz
Machado de Assis
realism
moral imagination
Henry James
title_short Machado de Assis, moral imagination and the novel
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author Passos,José Luiz
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realism
moral imagination
Henry James
topic Machado de Assis
realism
moral imagination
Henry James
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