HUMOUR IN THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRÁS CUBAS AND TRISTRAM SHANDY

VASCONCELOS, SANDRA GUARDINI

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Dossiê: Machado de Assis e as literaturas de língua inglesa • Machado Assis Linha 15 • 2022 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1983-682120221514 copy

HUMOUR IN THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRÁS CUBAS AND TRISTRAM SHANDY

HUMOR EM MEMÓRIAS PÓSTUMAS DE BRÁS CUBAS E TRISTRAM SHANDY

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Abstract

This article explores Machado de Assis's and Laurence Sterne's recourse to humour and wit as a critical weapon to satirise society, while pointing out the differences of tone and mood in both novelists. Machado and Sterne belong to a long tradition of humourists whose 'acts of aggression' intend to shed light on the absurdity and incongruity of human behaviour and folly.

Keywords:
Humour; wit; Machado de Assis; Laurence Sterne

Universidade de São Paulo - Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 sl 38, 05508-900 São Paulo, SP Brasil - São Paulo - SP - Brazil
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[1] SANDRA GUARDINI VASCONCELOS is Senior Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of São Paulo. She did postdoctoral studies at the University of Cambridge (1993-1994), at the University of Manchester (2008), was Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies at the University of Oxford (2005), at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London (2021-2022) and at the University of Durham (May 2022). Over the past years, she has been carrying out research on the presence and circulation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels in nineteenth-century Brazil. She has published articles and chapters both in Brazil and abroad, has co-edited Books and Periodicals in Brazil 1768-1930, A Transatlantic Perspective (2014), Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture: the Americas (2016), Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel (2020), and is the author of Puras misturas: estórias em Guimarães Rosa (1997), Dez lições sobre o romance inglês do século XVIII (2002), and A formação do romance inglês: ensaios teóricos (2007), for which she got the 2008 Jabuti Prize for Literary Theory and Criticism. At present, she is the coordinator of the Laboratory for the Study of the Novel (LERo). She is curator of the João Guimarães Rosa Archive, at the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros and holds a CNPq Research Productivity Grant (Grade 1A). E-mail: sgtvasco@usp.br.