PLCS 13/14 (2005)
Acts of Reading

The Shandean Form: Laurence Sterne and Machado de Assis

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  • Sergio Paulo Rouanet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62791/z39ja623

Published 2017-03-13

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Abstract

Abstract: Many critics have pointed to material similarities between Tristram Shandy and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. No doubt such similarities exist; however, in this paper it is suggested that the main affinities are of a formal nature in the sense that both novels can be seen as realizations of the same literary form. The study and characterization of such form is the aim of this essay.

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