René Girard

Pierpaolo Antonello

João Cezar de Castro Rocha

A reappraisal of René Girard's theory on the relationship between violence and religion in light of today's society.

Dialogues on the Origins of Culture

Evolution and Conversion

The most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century

A Revisionary History of Brazilian Literature and Culture

Brazil 2001

En la historia cultural latinoamericana, el espectador siempre ha sido un extranjero, cuya autoridad deriva de su condición ajena. Por ello, se convierte en modelo a ser imitado y nunca cuestionado –e incluso es emulado. Este mecanismo tautológico continúa vigente. ¿Es posible bosquejar una contribución propiamente latinoamericana a la teoría mimética? Esta pregunta es el eje principal de esta obra. (ITESO)

Teoría mimética y América Latina

¿Culturas shakespearianas?

This book offers an alternative explanation for one of the core dilemmas of Brazilian literary criticism: the “midlife crisis” Machado de Assis underwent from 1878 to 1880, the result of which was the writing of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, as well as the remarkable production of his mature years—with an emphasis on his masterpiece, Dom Casmurro. At the center of this alternative explanation, Castro Rocha situates the fallout from the success enjoyed by Eça de Queirós with the publication of Cousin Basílio and Machado’s two long texts condemning the author and his work. Literary and aesthetic rivalries come to the fore, allowing for a new theoretical framework based on a literary appropriation of “thick description,” the method proposed by anthropologist Clifford Geertz. From this method, Castro Rocha derives his key hypothesis: an unforeseen consequence of Machado’s reaction to Eça’s novel was a return to the classical notion of aemulatio, which led Machado to develop a “poetics of emulation.”

Toward a Poetics of Emulation

Machado de Assis

An in-depth look at how Machado de Assis affirms his uniqueness through the role of a reflective reader who eventually becomes a self-reflective author, whose text is primarily the written memory of his private library

The Case of Machado de Assis

The Author as Plagiarist

Confrontos E Dialogos Do Futurismo Na America Do Sul

"Marinetti Goes to South America"

Roger Chartier

Jaison Luis Crestani

Literary Archives, Criticism and Edition

The Author's Hand

Na obra, Chartier surpreende afinidades e contradições entre ordens discursivas diferentes, como o universo do manuscrito, o mundo da cultura impressa e a contemporaneidade da era digital. Nesse caso, o historiador observa, na forma literária, indícios do contexto da produção, circulação e recepção. Por isso mesmo, o método de Chartier supõe o desenvolvimento de uma relação complexa entre discursos diversos.

João Cezar de Castro Rocha

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