José Luís Jobim, João Cezar de Castro Rocha, José Luís Jobim, et al.
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Leiden
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Brill
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In this paper, we will first present two precursors of World Literature as a transnational project: Hugo Meltzl (1846-1908) and Machado de Assis (1839-1908), authors whose paths never crossed, but who both produced arguments against the grain of the nationalist wave sweeping the West in the nineteenth century. Having done so, we will provide a concise examination of historical ways of looking at the relationship between Europe and America, and finally of ideas of imitation/emulation in the literature and culture of Latin America. In this paper, we will first present two precursors of World Literature as a transnational project: Hugo Meltzl (1846-1908) and Machado de Assis (1839-1908), authors whose paths never crossed, but who both produced arguments against the grain of the nationalist wave sweeping the West in the nineteenth century. Having done so, we will provide a concise examination of historical ways of looking at the relationship between Europe and America, and finally of ideas of imitation/emulation in the literature and culture of Latin America. In this paper, we will first present two precursors of World Literature as a transnational project: Hugo Meltzl (1846-1908) and Machado de Assis (1839-1908), authors whose paths never crossed, but who both produced arguments against the grain of the nationalist wave sweeping the West in the nineteenth century. Having done so, we will provide a concise examination of historical ways of looking at the relationship between Europe and America, and finally of ideas of imitation/emulation in the literature and culture of Latin America. In this paper, we will first present two precursors of World Literature as a transnational project: Hugo Meltzl (1846-1908) and Machado de Assis (1839-1908), authors whose paths never crossed, but who both produced arguments against the grain of the nationalist wave sweeping the West in the nineteenth century. Having done so, we will provide a concise examination of historical ways of looking at the relationship between Europe and America, and finally of ideas of imitation/emulation in the literature and culture of Latin America.