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BL
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582305
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b411524
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| Main Entry
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Jackson, K. David, (Kenneth David)
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| Title & Author
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Machado de Assis : : a literary life /\ K. David Jackson
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| Series Statement
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Major figures in Spanish and Latin American literature and the arts
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1 online resource :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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9780300182644
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: 0300182643
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9780300180824
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0300180829
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Subject
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Machado de Assis,1839-1908-- Criticism and interpretation
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| Dewey Classification
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869.3/3
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| LC Classification
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PQ9697.M18Z6665 2015eb
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| Added Entry
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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