Lyricism in the Brazilian Novel

Contents: Lyricism and the Novel, Two Shifting Concepts - Distinct Approaches to the Lyrical Novel - Outlines of Lyricism - Historical Angles in Brazil - A Troubled Association with Romanticism - Symbolist Prose, a Problem of Commitment? - Revisiting Perspectives with Lyricism - Prose Lyricism Today - Three Contemporary Case Studies - Concluding Remarks.

Rosane Carneiro Ramos is a Teaching Fellow in Portuguese at the University of Edinburgh. She holds a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from King's College London, where she is a Visiting Research Associate. She is also a Research Associate at the University of Exeter, for the project «Women of the Brown Atlantic: Real and Imaginary Passages in Portuguese 1711-2011». She collaborates as a senior researcher and translator for BBC Africa Eye's current affair programmes, and is a poet with work published in Brazil and the United Kingdom.

«Clearly written and cogently argued, Dr Carneiro Ramos's discerning study casts new light on the lyrical novel as it has evolved in Brazilian literature. As the author demonstrates, this particular genre, long cultivated in Brazil, is quite distinct from «magical realism», which we associate with Spanish America. Lyricism in the Brazilian Novel will thus be of value to Brazilianists and to those who favour a comparative approach to modern Latin American letters.» (Professor Earl E. Fitz, Vanderbilt University)







«This stimulating book celebrates an essential yet understudied feature of Brazilian literature. Rosane Carneiro Ramos's objectives are threefold: she revises the concept of lyricism, putting together side by side Brazilian, Anglo-American and European scholars, rewrites the Brazilian literary historiography about prose lyricism, and examines with breadth and specialization key contemporary Brazilian novels. By doing so, she invites her readers to challenge the widespread idea that realism predominates in contemporary Brazilian literature and contributes to a broader understanding of the relationship between prose lyricism and social realism.» (Dr Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, UCL)