Affect And Realism In Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

Download Affect And Realism In Contemporary Brazilian Fiction full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Affect And Realism In Contemporary Brazilian Fiction ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

Author : Karl Erik Schollhammer
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785275577
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by : Karl Erik Schollhammer

Download or read book Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction written by Karl Erik Schollhammer and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and political role of literature and art in the twentieth century. In contemporary Brazilian prose, two simultaneous ambitions are often reconciled. The commitment to individual or social reality is a challenge that is assumed without thereby necessarily accepting and following the molds of the traditional search for national or cultural identities. This foundation is one of the constants of contemporary prose, without thereby eliminating the continuous existence of a formal experimentalism that is the clearest heir of the modernist project.

Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

Author : Daphne Patai
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838631324
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (313 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by : Daphne Patai

Download or read book Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction written by Daphne Patai and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the thematic and formal characteristics of six contemporary Brazilian novels, this study explores the use of myth and its ideological implications. The writers examined are Maria Alice Barroso, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Amado, Carlos Heitor Cony, Adonias Filho, and Autran Dourado.

A Companion to Magical Realism

Author : Stephen M. Hart
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855661209
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Companion to Magical Realism by : Stephen M. Hart

Download or read book A Companion to Magical Realism written by Stephen M. Hart and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel Garc a M rquez in particular his recently published memoirs], Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Jos Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, Mar a Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, Jos Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism. Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading. Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. CONTRIBUTORS: Jonathan Allison, Michael Berkowitz, John D. Erickson, Robin Fiddian, Evelyn Fishburn, Stephen M. Hart, David Henn, Stephanie Jones, Julia King, Efra n Kristal, Mark Morris, Humberto N ez-Faraco, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Lois Parkinson Zamora, Helene Price, Tsila A. Ratner, Kenneth Reeds, Alejandra Rengifo, Lorna Robinson, Sarah Sceats, Donald L. Shaw, Stefan Sperl, Philip Swanson, Jason Wilson.

Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America

Author : Jerónimo Arellano
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 161148670X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America by : Jerónimo Arellano

Download or read book Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America written by Jerónimo Arellano and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconoclastic in spirit, Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in LatinAmerica is the first study of affect and emotion in magical realist literature. Against the grain of a vast body of scholarship, it argues that magical realism is neither exotic commodity nor postcolonial resistance, but an art form fueled by a search for spaces of wonder in a disenchanted world. Linking the rise and fall of magical realism and kindred narrative forms to the shifting value of wonder as an emotional experience, this thought-provoking study proposes a radical new approach to canonical novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude. Received as “one of the most convincing manifestations of the ‘turn to affect’ in contemporary Latin American critical thought,” Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions draws on affect theory, the history of emotions, and new materialism to reframe key questions in Latin American literature and culture.

Filial Failures

Author : Marguerite Itamar Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (366 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Filial Failures by : Marguerite Itamar Harrison

Download or read book Filial Failures written by Marguerite Itamar Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Degenerative Realism

Author : Christy Wampole
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231546033
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Degenerative Realism by : Christy Wampole

Download or read book Degenerative Realism written by Christy Wampole and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In their dystopian visions, the collapse of France, Europe, and Western civilization is portrayed as all but certain and the literary mode of realism begins to break down. Above all, they depict a degenerative force whose effects on the nation and on reality itself can be felt. Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Aurélien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques this emergent tendency toward “degenerative realism.” She considers the ways these writers draw on social science, the New Journalism of the 1960s, political pamphlets, reportage, and social media to construct an atmosphere of disintegration and decline. Wampole maps how degenerative realist novels explore a world contaminated by conspiracy theories, mysticism, and misinformation, responding to the internet age’s confusion between fact and fiction with a lament for the loss of the real and an unrelenting emphasis on the role of the media in crafting reality. In a time of widespread populist anxieties over the perceived decline of the French nation, this book diagnoses the literary symptoms of today’s reactionary revival.

Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

Author : L. Lehnen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137313366
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Literature by : L. Lehnen

Download or read book Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Literature written by L. Lehnen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering how literary texts address the transformations that Brazil has undergone since its 1985 transition to democracy, this study proposes that Brazilian contemporary literature is informed by the struggle for social, civil, and cultural rights and that literary production has created spaces for historically disenfranchised communities.

The Politics of Affect and Emotion in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Author : L. Podalsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230120113
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Politics of Affect and Emotion in Contemporary Latin American Cinema by : L. Podalsky

Download or read book The Politics of Affect and Emotion in Contemporary Latin American Cinema written by L. Podalsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of emotion and affect in recent Latin American cinema (1990s-2000s) in the context of larger public debates about past traumas and current anxieties. To address this topic, it examines some of the most significant trends in contemporary Latin American filmmaking.

Affecting Fictions

Author : Jane F. Thrailkill
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674025127
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (251 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Affecting Fictions by : Jane F. Thrailkill

Download or read book Affecting Fictions written by Jane F. Thrailkill and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrailkill offers a new understanding of late-nineteenth-century American literary realism that draws on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, positioning her argument against the emotionless interpretations of the New Critics.

Art, History, and Postwar Fiction

Author : Kevin Brazil
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198824459
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Art, History, and Postwar Fiction by : Kevin Brazil

Download or read book Art, History, and Postwar Fiction written by Kevin Brazil and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which twenty-century novelists responded to visual art and how writing about art was often a means of commenting on historical developments of the period.

Fictionality, Factuality, and Reflexivity Across Discourses and Media

Author : Erika Fülöp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110722151
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fictionality, Factuality, and Reflexivity Across Discourses and Media by : Erika Fülöp

Download or read book Fictionality, Factuality, and Reflexivity Across Discourses and Media written by Erika Fülöp and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerned with the nature of the medium and the borders between fact and fiction, reflexivity was a ubiquitous feature of modernist and postmodernist literature and film. While in the wake of the post-postmodern “return to the real” cultural criticism has little time for discussions of reflexivity, it remains a key topic in narratology, as does fictionality. The latter is commonly defined opposition to the real and the factual, but remains conditioned by historical, cultural, discursive, and medium-related factors. Reflexivity blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, however, by giving fiction a factual edge or by questioning the limits of factuality in non-fictional discourses. Fictionality, factuality, and reflexivity thus constitute a complex triangle of concepts, yet they are rarely considered together. This volume fills this gap by exploring the intricacies of their interactions and interdependence in philosophy, literature, film, and digital media, providing insights into a broad range of their manifestations from the ancient times to today, from East Asia through Europe to the Americas.

The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature

Author : John Sturrock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192833181
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (331 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature by : John Sturrock

Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature written by John Sturrock and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: opinion, the Guide offers a discriminating - and sometimes controversial - view of a broad range of contemporary literatures.

Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil

Author : Gustavo Procopio Furtado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190867078
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil by : Gustavo Procopio Furtado

Download or read book Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil written by Gustavo Procopio Furtado and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the vibrant field of documentary filmmaking in Brazil from the transition to democracy in 1985 to the present. Marked by significant efforts toward the democratization of Brazil's highly unequal society, this period also witnessed the documentary's rise to unprecedented vitality in quantity, quality, and diversity of production-which includes polished auteur films as well as rough-hewn collaborative works, films made in major metropolitan regions as well as in indigenous villages and in remote parts of the Amazon, intimate first-person documentaries as well as films that dive headfirst into struggles for social justice. The transformations of Brazilian society and of filmmaking coalesce and become entangled in this cinema's preoccupation with archives. Historically linked to the exercise and maintenance of power, the concept of the archive is critical for the documentary as a cultural practice that preserves images from the present for the future, unearths and repurposes visual materials from the past, and is historically invested in filmic images as records of the real. Contemporary films incorporate, reflect on, and rework a variety of archives, such as documents produced by official institutions, ethnographic images, home movies, and photo albums-and engage not only with what is preserved but also with lacunas in the record and with alternate forms of remembering, retrieving, and transmitting the past. Through its interaction with archives, this book argues, the contemporary documentary reflects on and intervenes in the distribution of visibilities and invisibilities, centers and margins, silences and speech, living memory and its preservation in the record-thus locating the documentary on archival borders that concern Brazilian society and filmmaking alike.

Writing Identity

Author : Emanuelle Oliveira
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557534859
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (348 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Writing Identity by : Emanuelle Oliveira

Download or read book Writing Identity written by Emanuelle Oliveira and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970s, Brazil was experiencing the return to democracy through a gradual political opening and the re-birth of its civil society. Writing Identity examines the intricate connections between artistic production and political action. It centers on the politics of the black movement and the literary production of a Sao Paulo-based group of Afro-Brazilian writers, the Quilombhoje. Using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the field of cultural production, the manuscript explores the relationship between black writers and the Brazilian dominant canon, studying the reception and criticism of contemporary Afro-Brazilian literature. After the 1940s, the Brazilian literary field underwent several transformations. Literary criticism's displacement from the newspapers to the universities placed a growing emphasis on aesthetics and style. Academic critics denounced the focus on a political and racial agenda as major weaknesses of Afro-Brazilian writing, and stressed, the need for aesthetic experimentation within the literary field. Writing Identity investigates how Afro-Brazilian writers maintained strong connections to the black movement in Brazil, and yet sought to fuse a social and racial agenda with more sophisticated literary practices. As active militants in the black movement, Quilombhoje authors strove to strengthen a collective sense of black identity for Afro-Brazilians.

Forms of Myth in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

Author : Daphne Patai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Forms of Myth in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by : Daphne Patai

Download or read book Forms of Myth in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction written by Daphne Patai and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Experimental Latin American Cinema

Author : Cynthia Tompkins
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292748922
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Experimental Latin American Cinema by : Cynthia Tompkins

Download or read book Experimental Latin American Cinema written by Cynthia Tompkins and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are numerous film studies that focus on one particular grouping of films—by nationality, by era, or by technique—here is the first single volume that incorporates all of the above, offering a broad overview of experimental Latin American film produced over the last twenty years. Analyzing seventeen recent films by eleven different filmmakers from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru, Cynthia Tompkins uses a comparative approach that finds commonalities among the disparate works in terms of their influences, aesthetics, and techniques. Tompkins introduces each film first in its sociohistorical context before summarizing it and then subverting its canonical interpretation. Pivotal to her close readings of the films and their convergences as a collective cinema is Tompkins’s application of Deleuzian film theory and the concept of the time-image as it pertains to the treatment of time and repetition. Tompkins also explores such topics as the theme of decolonization, the consistent use of montage, paratactically structured narratives, and the fusion of documentary conventions and neorealism with drama. An invaluable contribution to any dialogue on the avant-garde in general and to filmmaking both in and out of Latin America, Experimental Latin American Cinema is also a welcome and insightful addition to Latin American studies as a whole.

Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction

Author : Renée W. Craig-Odders
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786424265
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction by : Renée W. Craig-Odders

Download or read book Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction written by Renée W. Craig-Odders and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the hard-boiled private investigator from gritty pulp fiction, a terse and mysterious figure, has become increasingly universal as the detective novel crosses more and more borders. A booming genre in Latin America, Spain and other Hispanic cultures, detective fiction has transcended the limitations of its influences. Hispanic authors relatively new to the genre have published novels and series popular with the public, while a number of well-known writers have adapted the genre to reflect the concurrent globalization of modern society and the crimes within it. This volume presents a compilation of 11 critical essays on genero negro--contemporary detective fiction in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian canon. Surveying the last twenty years, the text analyzes emerging trends in this rapidly evolving genre, as well as the mutations and innovations taking place within the style. The first section of the book is dedicated to the detective fiction of Spain and Portugal. The second section surveys works from Latin America and the United States, where topics touch on universal subjects like crime, identity and feminism.