{"title":"THE BUTTERFLY MAN: MACHADO DE ASSIS, CHARLES LAMB, AND THE PERSONAE IN BRITISH PERIODICAL ESSAYS","authors":"Daniel Lago Monteiro","doi":"10.1590/1983-682120221513","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article aims to examine the butterfly man persona who roves from topic to topic with seeming inattention, but concealed choice, in Machado de Assis’ series of chronicles “The Week”, in Charles Lamb’s Essays of Elia, and in previous British periodical essayists. The comparison of the periodical writer to a small flying animal has a long history in essay writing and was acknowledged by Machado in his mature years, at a time when he fully mastered the genre of chronicle and had acquired a far-reaching knowledge of British periodical literature. Therefore, in this paper, the butterfly man would stand for a mode of thinking and writing about the ephemerides of everyday life.","PeriodicalId":37762,"journal":{"name":"Machado de Assis em Linha","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Machado de Assis em Linha","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1983-682120221513","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This article aims to examine the butterfly man persona who roves from topic to topic with seeming inattention, but concealed choice, in Machado de Assis’ series of chronicles “The Week”, in Charles Lamb’s Essays of Elia, and in previous British periodical essayists. The comparison of the periodical writer to a small flying animal has a long history in essay writing and was acknowledged by Machado in his mature years, at a time when he fully mastered the genre of chronicle and had acquired a far-reaching knowledge of British periodical literature. Therefore, in this paper, the butterfly man would stand for a mode of thinking and writing about the ephemerides of everyday life.
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The journal, which is mainly aimed at the academic community, welcomes scholarly articles in the most diverse methodological and critical trends. The journal’s main areas of interest are literary studies, Brazilian literature and comparative literature, focused on the work of Machado de Assis. Articles will be received on a rolling basis. The articles must be original and unpublished in Brazil. The journal receives, reviews and publishes articles in Portuguese and English. All articles received by the editors will be submitted for evaluation by the editorial board and by ad hoc reviewers, members of the Brazilian and international academic community, who are specially invited for each issue of the journal.
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