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May 10, 2024
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2018-2019 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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POR 420 - Machado De Assis Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisites: POR 333, 334 or permission of instructor
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. Cross-listed with POR 520
Graded
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