Machado De Assis's Philosopher or Dog?: From Serial to Book Form

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Synopsis
The great Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) published five of his nine novels as feuilletons in daily newspapers or fortnightly women's magazines. How were the structure and themes of those novels entangled with this serial-publication form? In da Silva's important new study, textual scholarship, critical theory and the history of the book are combined in order to trace this relationship. The most important case study is an extended consideration of Philosopher or Dog? (1891), the novel after which he abandoned the feuilleton. Through a comparison of the serial and book versions of Philosopher or Dog? and a thorough study of the periodical in which it appeared, the international women's magazine The Season , da Silva analyses the changes which the genre novel was undergoing at the end of the nineteenth century: the decline of the serial, and the standardisation of female press. Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva is Tutor of Portuguese at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Copyright:
2010

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
200 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351559560
Related ISBNs:
9781906540456, 9780367602819, 9781315091594
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Modern Humanities Research Association and Taylor & Francis
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Language Arts, Foreign Language Study
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Bookshare Staff
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