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About this book
First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin America's foremost literary critic and dialectician, underscoring its relevance for contemporary debates on world literature. The volume shows how Schwarz's concrete analyses of Brazilian literature and culture offer a theoretical blueprint to understand the literary registration of capitalism's combined and uneven development. Exploring concepts such as misplaced ideas, objective form, and volubility, the contributors show how the nuance of Schwarz's interpretive practice can be productively remodelled into a program for world-literary studies. Throughout the volume, Schwarz's unparalleled contributions to cultural theory, long neglected in the Anglophone academy, are rigorously and creatively debated. Roberto Schwarz and World Literature is a primer on literary criticism as concrete practice and an indispensable book for those interested in how literary form mediates social reality.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Roberto Schwarz and World Literature: An Introduction
- 2. Schwarzâs Anatomy
- 3. A Quiet (Brazilian) Revolution in Critical Theory
- 4. Misplacing World Literature
- 5. Dialectical Criticism in the Provinces of the âWorld Republic of Lettersâ: The Primacy of the Object in the Work of Roberto Schwarz: Ten Years Later
- 6. Subjective Form: Registration and World Literature
- 7. PresuppositionsâBarring Errorâof Roberto Schwarz, Antonio Candido, and Georg LukĂĄcs
- 8. Structural Reduction in the Early Work of Assaf Gavron
- 9. Fables of Development: Literary Form and the Dialectics of Dependency
- 10. Displaced Peripheries, Geopolitical Allegories: Roberto Schwarz, Rajinder Singh Bedi, and Colonial Legacies in India
- 11. Reading Modern Chinese Political Economy with Roberto Schwarz
- 12. The Position of the Narrator in the Peripheral Novel: Roberto Schwarz, Machado de Assis, and the Problem of Realism
- 13. Schwarzâs Modernism: Between Artistic Affinity and Intellectual Distance
- 14. Dual but Combined: Roberto Schwarz and the Sense of the Dialectic
- 15. Works by Roberto Schwarz
- Back Matter