The Space-in-Between: Machado de Assis and the Postmodernity Sensibility

Autor: G. Reginald Daniel
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
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Zdroj: Machado de Assis em Linha, Vol 8, Iss 16, Pp 114-137
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1983-6821
DOI: 10.1590/1983-682120158167
Popis: Abstract Machado de Assis displayed an acute sensitivity to the liminal space that Silviano Santiago refers to as the "space-in-between" (o entre-lugar), which shapes experience. This enhanced his ability to convey a nuanced relationship between various categories of difference – particularly subject and object – compared with that of the normative modern worldview. Located in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, Machado's perspective, which views categories of difference as inherently relative and interlocking extremes on a continuum, displays an affinity with postmodern sensibilities.
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