Literature of Brazil | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 36 pages of analysis & critique of Literature of Brazil.

Literature of Brazil | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 36 pages of analysis & critique of Literature of Brazil.
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SOURCE: Johnson, Randal. “The Dynamics of the Brazilian Literary Field, 1930-1945.”1 Luso-Brazilian Review 31, no. 2 (winter 1994): 5-22.

In the following essay, Johnson draws parallels between the political conditions and the changing literary scene in Brazil during the 1930s and 1940s, noting that Brazilian writing of that period maps the relationships between control and influence in Brazilian society.

Nos anos 1930 e 1940 o campo literário brasileiro passou por uma profunda reestruturação. Durante esse período, o modernismo canonizou-se e institucionalizou-se, novas gerações de escritores surgiram e a divisão do trabalho in-telectual tornou-se mais diversificada e mais especializada. Por volta de 1945, a dinâmica desse campo, baseada nas mudanças estruturais de autoridade literária, tinha mudado de forma irreversível. Ao examinar os componentes deci-sivos da transformação desse campo literário, este estudo tem o objetivo de mapear as relações sutis e complexas entre a...

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