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| Author(s): |
Ana Carolina Sa Teles
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2013-11-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Hélio de Seixas Guimarães;
Pedro Meira Monteiro;
Cleusa Rios Pinheiro Passos
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| Advisor: | Hélio de Seixas Guimarães |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation approaches morality and subject constitution in Machado de Assiss short stories. The analyzed short stories go back to the period of the 1870s and 1880s. The titles are the following: Ponto de vista (Quem desdenha...) in Histórias da meia-noite; O sainete; D. Benedita (Um retrato) in Papéis avulsos; Galeria Póstuma and Uma senhora in Histórias sem data; and O enfermeiro in Várias histórias. In these short stories, the main characters are usually confronted with impasses concerning either identity, subjectivity or moral dilemmas that imply in subjective difference. In addition, the narrators propose esthetic and ethic dilemmas that question the reader in the act of reading and interpreting. In Ressurreição, novel of 1872, Machado had already dislocated the focus on narrating customs and had given priority to a plot centered on the contrast between two characters. In the article of 1878 on O primo Basílio, Machado started a huge controversy as well. This text takes part in what Roberto Schwarz names as Machados anti-Realism militancy. In the article about O primo Basílio Machado states the preference for the art of the characters, passions and morality as main components in the drama. In the 20th century, a new area of Machados criticism emerged by approaching his works according to an underground tone (the word refers to Dostoevskys book). This type of criticism was founded by Augusto Meyer and Lucia Miguel Pereira. They have opened the way for a criticism of Machados works that can take into account a psychoanalytic interface in literature reception. Still, we should remember that Augusto Meyer referred to Alcides Maya and was responsible for pointing out the connections between Machado de Assis and the moralist writers. Thus, there has been an overture not only to psychological criticism but also to the criticism concerned with morality in Machados works. Among exponent critics who have investigated morality in Machado, we can mention Augusto Meyer, Alfredo Bosi, Ivan Teixeira, José Luiz Passos and Pedro Meira Monteiro. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/05148-0 - Subject constitution and moral in short stories by Machado de Assis |
| Grantee: | Ana Carolina Sá Teles |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |