Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

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.

List of contents

Preface; 1. The Contemporary in Current Brazilian Literature; 2. Realisms in Question; 3. A Paper World-Reflections on the Realism of Luiz Ruffato; 4. Brazilian Literature and the Market; 5. The Victorious Return of the Self in Contemporary Writing; 7. The Challenge of the Sensible and the Sublime Revisited; 8. Farewell to the Contemporary!; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Karl Erik Schøllhammer is Full Professor at the Department of Language and Literature at the Pontifície Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and a researcher at the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (CNPq) and Cientista do Nosso Estado (Faperj).

Product details

• Authors: Karl Erik Schollhammer
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781839985409
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-540-9
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Anthem Brazilian Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Comparative Literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Literary Criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000, Relating to Latin / Hispanic US American people