Machado de Assis, moral imagination and the novel

The article discusses the premise behind binding literary value to the ability a work has to yield socio-historical information, prevalent in recent criticism on Machado de Assis. It argues that the body of Machado's work shows an increasing ambivalence regarding the links between imagined live...

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Main Author: José Luiz Passos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
Series:Machado de Assis em Linha
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1983-68212014000100003&lng=en&tlng=en