Dr. M. Elizabeth Ginway   Dauer Hall 152   392-2017, ext. 232  eginway@rll.ufl.edu
Office hours: WRF: 10:40-11:30 and by appointment

TEXTS:  Gator Textbook packet with all poetry, criticism, drama, short stories and "crônicas." Novels: Machado de Assis:  Iaiá Garcia  (1878); Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas  (1881); Dom Casmurro  (1900);  Aluísio Azevedo: O Cortiço (1890).  Various editions are available in the library.

OBJECTIVES:  To offer students an overview of Brazil’s greatest author of the nineteenth century, Machado de Assis (1839-1908) and to familiarize them with the literary movements of the era (Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism) and nineteenth-century Brazilian society.  To this end we will focus on the varied writings of Machado de Assis: literary criticism, poetry, drama, short story, novel and newspaper columns.  All of these publications demonstrate Machado’s insight into the major issues of his time and his social criticism of the "Império" during the second half of the nineteenth century.  We will also read one naturalist novel by Aluísio Azevedo to offer an idea of the style and quality of Machado’s contemporaries.

GRADING:  Two short papers (3-5 pages) or one longer paper (5-10 pages) (40%) plus a midterm and final exam (40%).  Undergraduate papers consist of analyzing a poem, story or play of Machado de Assis that has not been read in class.  A copy of the text must be handed in with the paper.  Papers handed in on time are allowed to be re-written and turned in a week later for a better grade.  Graduate students must write a longer paper and consult outside sources.  Late papers will incur penalties.  Attendance, quizzes, discussion and presentations (20%).  All students are expected to do a presentation, either alone or in pairs; undergraduate students can pair up with graduate students.  See topics on the syllabus marked apresentação. Students taking the course for graduate credit will be expected to do the additional readings of criticism for presentations and to supplement exam questions (GS on syllabus)—any advanced undergraduates or native speakers of Portuguese are invited to read them as well.  Exams consist of short answer and in-class essays.

Tardiness, absences.  Tardiness will affect the attendance grade, since pop quizzes over the reading material are generally given at the beginning of class. If a two-hour class is missed, it counts as two absences.  After three hours of class missed, points will be taken off the 10% grade, a half point per absence.  Make-up exams are given only in the case of emergencies, substantiated with adequate documentation.

Dates to remember: Your presentation (apresentação)
First paper/outline of long paper: Monday, September 30.
Mid-term Exam: Tuesday, October 22.
Second/final version of long paper: Thursday, November  14.
Final exam December 19, 2002, 10:00-12:00 AM.  Do not make plans to leave campus before the final exam.

GS= graduate students supplemental assignments.

I.  26-28 de agosto
T:  Apresentação do curso, expectativas, história literária
Q:  "O passado, o presente e o futuro da literatura" (1858); "Idéias sobre o teatro"
      (1859); teatro, Desencantos (1861)

II.  3-5 setembro
T: O protocolo (teatro) (1862)
Q:  Crisálidas  (1864) poesia (seleções); Contos fluminenses  (1870):  "Miss Dollar"
      O romantismo  (apresentação) _____________

III.  10-12 de setembro
T:  Contos fluminenses  (1870): "Confissões de uma viúva moça"
Q: "Frei   Simão." Poesia:  Falenas  (1870) "Pálida Elvira" biografia de Lamartine,
      (poeta romântico francês) 1790-1869 (apresentação) ________________________

IV.  17-19 de setembro
T:  Histórias da meia-noite  (1873):  "O relógio de ouro;" "Ponto de vista."
Q:  "Instinto de nacionalidade" (1873) poesia (seleções) de Americanas, (1875) e
     Ocidentais  (1878) O segundo império  (apresentação) _____________________

V.  24-26 de setembro
T:  Iaiá Garcia  (1878) romance.
Q:  Iaiá Garcia  GS: Ginway: "Iaiá Garcia como romance de transição"
      O realismo (apresentação)____________________________

VI.  1-3 de outubro
S:  Entrega do primeiro trabalho escrito
T:   Iaiá Garcia
Q:  Teatro:  Só tu puro amor (1880)
      biografia de Machado de Assis (apresentacão) ________________

VII.  8-10 de outubro
T:  Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas (1881), romance
Q:  Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas GS: Bakhtin e o tradição carnavalesca

VIII.  15- 17  de outubro
T: Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
Q:  Papéis avulsos  (1882):  "Teoria do medalhão." "O espelho; " Histórias sem data
     (1884):  "A igreja do diabo;" GS:  Alfredo Bosi, "Entre a máscara e a fenda"
     Antologia Estudos: Machado de Assis, (1982), 437-457.
 
 

IX.  22-24 de outubro
T:  Exame
Q: Histórias sem data  (1884): "Último capítulo;" "Conto alexandrino;" "Segunda
    vida."  Crônica:  11 e 19 de maio de 1888 (abolição)

X.   29-31 de outubro
T:  Aluísio Azevedo:  O cortiço  (1890)
Q:  O cortiço O naturalismo no Brasil  (apresentação) ________________________
     GS: artigo crítico sobre o romance: Brayner, Sedycias, Bueno,
     Mendes

XI.  5-7  de novembro
T:   O cortiço
Q:   Várias histórias  (1896): "Entre santos;" "A causa secreta."
 "O enfermeiro;" "Dona Paula."

XII. 12-14 de novembro

T: "Pai contra mãe," Casa velha (n/d) GS: John Gledson "Bons dias" Ficção e história, 114-126
Q:   Filme: Capitu Segundo trabalho escrito ou trabalho longo

XIII  19-21 de novembro
T:  Dom Casmurro  (1900);
Q:  Dom Casmurro GS: Paul Dixon: Retired Dreams

XIV:  26 de novembro
T:  Dom Casmurro

XV. 3-5 de dezembro
T:  Dom Casmurro
Q: Páginas recolhidas  (1899)  "Missa do galo;"  "Idéias do canário;" "Vitória dos
    minúsculos."  GS: Jeffrey Needell, A tropical belle époque, 192-231.

XVI.  10 de dezembro
S:  Revisão para o exame final  Reading days

Exame final:  quinta-feira 19 de dezembro McCarty, Hall 2186 10:00-12:00

Sources for first paper on Machado’s early stories or plays:  Contos recolhidos, Contos esquecidos. Contos esparsos, Contos avulsos, Contos sem data, Histórias românticas; plays: O caminho da porta, Deuses de casaca. (In the Latin American Collection, Library East).  Sources for second paper:  compare one of Machado’s major themes from his post 1880 works (novels and stories) read in class with early novels, (Ressurreição, Helena) or a short story not read in class (consult me first) or from one of his later plays: (Não consultes médico, Lição de botânica, Viver!). The UF Honor Code states: We, the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to hold ourselves and our peers to the highest standards of honesty and integrity. On all work submitted for credit the following pledge is either required or implied: On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in doing this assignment.

Recommended reading/sources for presentations (most texts are in the library):
Romantismo, realismo, naturalismo:
Bosi, Alfredo.  A história concisa da literatura brasileira. São Paulo: Cultrix, 1982.
Cereja, William Roberto, Thereza Cochar Magalhães.  Literatura brasileira. São Paulo: Saraiva: 2001.  Romantismo: 202-209;  Realismo:  251-253; Naturalismo: 263-269.
Stern, Irwin.  A Dictionary of Brazilian Literature. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988.  Reference Section in Library West.
Lamartine:  (em inglês) Lombard, Charles M.  Lamartine. Boston: Twayne, 1973.
Biografia de Machado:
Lajolo, Marisa.  Machado de Assis: Literatura Comentada. Atica, 1980. 3-12; 99-101.
História brasileira:
Fausto, Boris.  História concisa do Brasil.  São Paulo:  Edusp, 2001.  Também em inglês.

The University of Florida requires this information on all syllabi:
Students requesting classroom accommodation must first register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then provide this documentation to the Instructor when requesting accommodation.

Academic Honesty Guidelines/Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Florida
Academic honesty and integrity are fundamental values of the University community. An academic honesty offense is defined as the act of lying, cheating, or stealing academic information so that one gains academic advantage.  Any individual who becomes aware of a violation of the Honor Code is bound by honor to take corrective action.
Violations of the Academic Honesty Guidelines include but are not limited to:
Cheating. The improper taking or tendering of any information or material which shall be used to determine academic credit. Taking of information includes copying graded homework assignments from another student; working with another individual(s) on graded assignments or homework; looking or attempting to look at notes, a text, or another student's paper during an exam.
 Plagiarism. The attempt to represent the work of another as the product of one's own thought, whether the other's work is oral or written (including electronic), published or unpublished. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, quoting oral or written materials without citation on written materials or in oral presentations; submitting work produced by an on-line translation service or the translation feature of an on-line dictionary as your own.
Misrepresentation. Any act or omission with intent to deceive a teacher for academic advantage. Misrepresentation includes lying to a teacher to increase your grade; lying or misrepresenting facts when confronted with an allegation of academic honesty.
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Violations of this policy will result in disciplinary action according to the judicial process.

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Items on reserve for graduate students

Bakhtin, Mikhail.  The Problems of Dostoyevsky’s Poetics.  Translated by Caryl Emerson.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1984.

Bosi, Alfredo et. al.  "Entre a máscara e a fenda."  In Antologia Estudos:  Machado de Assis. São Paulo: Atica, 1982.

Dixon, Paul B.  Retired Dreams: Dom Casmurro, Myth and Modernity.  West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1989.

Gledson, John.  Machado de Assis: ficção e história. Translated by Sônia Coutinho.  Rio de Janeiro: Paz e terra, 1986.

Needell, Jeffrey.  A tropical belle époque. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Naturalism:

Brayner,  Sonia. A metáfora do corpo no romance naturalista: "O Cortiço."  Rio de Janeiro:  Livraria São José, 1973.

Bueno, Eva.  "O cortiço."  In  Resisting Boundaries: The Subject of Naturalism in Brazil.  New York:  Garland, 1995.  62-84.

Mendes, Leonardo Pinto.  O retrato do Imperador.  Porto Alegre: EDPUCRS, 2000.

Sedycias, João.  The Naturalistic Novels of the New World.  Lanham, MD:  University Press of America, 1993.

Suggested readings for graduate student research papers:  Machado de Assis.

Barreto Filho.  Introdução a Machado de Assis. 1947. Rio de Janeiro:  Agir, 1980.

Caldwell, Helen.  The Brazilian Othello of Machado de Assis.  Berkeley:  University of California, 1960.

_______.  Machado de Assis.  The Brazilian Master and his Novels. Berkeleky:  University of California, 1970.

Castelo, José Alderaldo.  Realidade e ilusão em Machado de Assis. São Paulo:  Companhia Editorial Nacional, 1969.

Dixon, Paul.  Retired Dreams: Dom Casmurro, Myth and Modernity. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1989.

Faoro, Raimundo.  Machado de Assis: a pirámide e o trapézio.  São Paulo:  Companhia Editorial Nacional, 1974.

Fitz, Earl.  Machado de Assis. Boston: Twayne, 1989.

Gomes, Eugênio.  O enigma de Capitu.  Rio de Janeiro:  José Olympio, 1967.

Ishimatsu, Lorie.  The Poetry of Machado de Assis.  Chapel Hill:  Albatross, 1984.

Loyola, Cecília.  Machado de Assis e o teatro das convenções.  Rio de Janeiro: Uapé, 1997.

Nunes, Maria Luisa.  The Craft of an Absolute Winner.  Westport:  Greenwood Press, 1983.

Pereira, Lúcia Miguel.  Machado de Assis: estudo crítico e biográfico.  Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio 1955.

Riedel, Dirce Cortes.   Metáfora, o espelho de Machado de Assis.  Rio de Janeiro: Francisco Alves, 1974,

Schwarz, Roberto.  Ao vencedor as batatas.  São Paulo: Duas cidades, 1977.

_______.  Um mestre na periferia do capitalismo.  São Paulo: Duas cidades, 1990.