THE REALIST COURT: CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON MACHADO DE ASSIS AND THE NOVEL AS A GENDER

Authors

  • Felipe Bier Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1769.mag.2015.90151

Keywords:

Calumny, realism, ethics, ideology, Machado de Assis

Abstract

This work builds its theoretical efforts around a twofold reflection towards a view of the novel as a historical genre. Firstly we will work upon the relation between ethics, ideology and literary representation on the thought of Georg Lukács: the historical mark that grounds its considerations on the novel – namely the year of 1848 – will be explored in order to throw some light on the relations between the well known crises of literary representation and its nexus with the development of ideology within capitalist society. The second half of this work will show how these questions find a particularly rich ground to flourish on the work of Machado de Assis: having as center the novel Dom Casmurro, we will seek to show how the peculiar way in which the theme of calumny is treated on this piece of Brazilian literature offers a glimpse of the nexus between literary form and ideology

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Author Biography

  • Felipe Bier, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
    Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada na FFLCH –USP . E-mail: felipebier@gmail.com.

Published

2015-02-13

Issue

Section

Ensaios

How to Cite

Bier, F. (2015). THE REALIST COURT: CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON MACHADO DE ASSIS AND THE NOVEL AS A GENDER. Magma, 22(11), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1769.mag.2015.90151