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13/14. The Author as Plagiarist.The Case of Machado de Assis

Guest Editor: João Cezar de Castro Rocha,
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

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Introduction:
Machado de Assis—The Location of an Author
João Cezar de Castro Rocha 

Acts of Reading

43  

Machado de Assis’ Reception and the Transformation of the Modern European Novel
Earl E. Fitz

59  

Dress and Female Intelligence: Intertextuality in Esau and Jacob
Pedro Armando de Almeida Magalhães

67  

Readings of Balzac in Twentieth-Century Brazil: The Case of Machado de Assis
Gilberto Pinheiro Passos

81  

The Shandean Form: Laurence Sterne and Machado de Assis
Sergio Paulo Rouanet

105  

Machado de Assis, Critic of Eça de Queirós—A Symptomatic Misunderstanding
João Camilo dos Santos

129  

Hamlet the Brazilian Way (Machado, Reader of Shakespeare)
Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos

Interpretations

 141  

Machado de Assis, a Contemporary Writer
João Almino

143  

Machado and Modernism
Raúl Antelo

161  

Machado de Assis on Popular Music: A Case for Cultural Studies in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Idelber Avelar

177  

Raymundo Faoro, Reader of Machado de Assis
Alfredo Bosi

199  

Around My Room and Around Life
Antonio Candido

205  

Fictionalizations of the Reader in Machado de Assis’ Novels
Hélio de Seixas Guimarães

219  

The Cannibal Metaphor in Machado de Assis
K. David Jackson

227  

The Skeptical Paradox in Machado de Assis
Gustavo Bernardo Krause

249   

Machado and the Cost of Reading
Marisa Lajolo and Regina Zilberman

263   

The Development of a Skeptical Life—View in the Fiction of Machado de Assis
José Raimundo Maia Neto

281   

The Place of Machado de Assis in the Present
Daniel Piza 

285   

Machado de Assis: A Keen Look  at Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Identity
Maria Aparecida Ferreira de Andrade Salgueiro

293   

Master among the Ruins
Michael Wood

Novel

307   

The Beautiful Form of Sadness: Machado de Assis’ Memorial de Aires
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

317   

Four Stomachs and a Brain: An Interpretation of Esaú e Jacó
Stephen M. Hart

333   

How is the Second Life of  Brás Cubas Different from His First One?
Victor J. Mendes

353   

Absence of Time: The Counselor’s Dreams
Pedro Meira Monteiro

373   

The (Lack of) Feeling of What Happens: Machado de Assis’ Dom Casmurro
Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer

391   

Irony in Machado de Assis’ Dom Casmurro: Reflections on Anti-Tragic Cordiality
Kathrin H. Rosenfield

407   

Strategies of Deceit: Dom Casmurro
Marta de Senna

419   

Some Unknown Chapters of the First Version of Quincas Borba Serialized in A Estação
Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva

435   

Sentimental Commerce and Moral Accountancy in Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
Bluma Waddington Vilar

459   

Picturing Machado de Assis
Short story

473   

The Paradox of the Alienist
Abel Barros Baptista

487   

Under the Guise of Science
Ivo Barbieri

507   

Paradigms at Play: The Short Stories of Machado de Assis
Paul Dixon

525   

The Short Story in the Works of Machado de Assis and Horacio Quiroga: A Material Aesthetic?
Pablo Rocca

539   

"Rosebud" and the Holy Grail: A Hypothesis for Re-Reading Machado de Assis’
Short Stories
João Cezar de Castro Rocha

Poetry / Crônica / Journalism

561   

Machado de Assis, the Apprentice Journalist
Cristiane Costa

571   

Machado de Assis and Nationalism: The Americanas Case
José Luís Jobim

585   

The Poetry of Machado de Assis
Cláudio Murilo Leal

599   

Crônica in Fifteen Themes
Ana Miranda

607   

Quincas Borba in A Estação
Marcus Vinicius Nogueira Soares

Reception

625  

A Season in Casa Verde
Alfred Mac Adam

627  

Machado de Assis in English: A Selected Bibliography
K. David Jackson

647  

Machado de Assis
José Saramago

649  

Machado de Assis in Portugal
Arnaldo Saraiva

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