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Binary Opposition in Literature: The Example of Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Luciana Stegagno Picchio
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Extract

The remarks which follow arise from the daily and simultaneous consulting of two literatures and, in a larger sense, of two cultures, Portuguese and Brazilian, both expressed in the same language, Portuguese. They also arise from an attempt to describe and define by categories which are “internal” to literature the differences which exist between the two bodies of writing under discussion. But they are equally inspired by a desire to isolate in the corpus of the texts which conventionally constitute a national literature those thematic and stylistic recurrences which may serve as starting points for an attempt at formalization.

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Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 25 , Issue 99 , December 1977 , pp. 1 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © 1977 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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1 The present article is the revised text of a lesson presented at the Center for Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, University of Paris, Sorbonne (Paris III and Paris IV), November 7, 1972. I wish to thank my colleagues and friends Raymond Cantel and Paul Teyssier for the opportunity they offered me to be in contact with and exchange ideas with colleagues at the University of Paris.