Simão Valente
List of John Benjamins publications in which Simão Valente is involved.
Articles
2021 Realism in Anglo-American crime fiction Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Göttsche, Dirk, Rosa Mucignat and Robert Weninger (eds.), pp. 761–774 | Sub-chapter
For the century following the publication of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” in 1841 crime fiction would follow lines set by that foundational work: the main character must solve mysteries by the application of reason alone. In an effort to ennoble a genre of popular literature… read more
2021 Eça and Machado: Money and adultery in Lusophone realism Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Göttsche, Dirk, Rosa Mucignat and Robert Weninger (eds.), pp. 551–564 | Sub-chapter
In February 1878 Eça de Queirós publishes his novel O Primo Basílio, whose plot is heavily concerned with the causes and consequences of an adulterous love affair. Two months later, Machado de Assis publishes in Brazil a famous review bitterly criticizing Eça’s novel as derivative, borderline… read more