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Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society
Candido, Antonio. Ed(S): Becker, Howard Saul
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Description for Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society
hardcover. Editor(s): Becker, Howard Saul. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 halftones 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience a collection of the provocative work of Antonio Candido, one of the leading men of letters in Brazil. Trained as a sociologist, Candido conceives of literature as a social project and is equally at home in textual analyses, discussions of literary theory, and sociological, anthropological, and historical argument. It would be impossible to overstate his impact on the intellectual life of his own country, and on Latin American scholars who can read Portuguese, but he is little known in the rest of the world. In literary, women's, and cultural studies, as ... Read more
Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience a collection of the provocative work of Antonio Candido, one of the leading men of letters in Brazil. Trained as a sociologist, Candido conceives of literature as a social project and is equally at home in textual analyses, discussions of literary theory, and sociological, anthropological, and historical argument. It would be impossible to overstate his impact on the intellectual life of his own country, and on Latin American scholars who can read Portuguese, but he is little known in the rest of the world. In literary, women's, and cultural studies, as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691635903
SKU
V9780691635903
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Reviews for Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society
"This book is a welcome contribution to Brazilian and Latin American literature. Becker's fluid translation skillfully communicates the clarity and subtlety of the Portuguese original."
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