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2012-2013 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

POR 520 - Machado de Assis

3 credits
Study of the major novels and short stories of the foremost Brazilian author of the nineteenth century. The course examines the innovative narrative techniques that characterize his works, and their relationship to precursors such as Lawrence Sterne and Almeida Garrett. The course also explores how Machado’s skepticism and irony anticipates modernist and post-modernist writings. This course is dual-listed with POR 420 in the undergraduate catalogue.