At the other side of the mirror

Authors

  • Sandra G. T. Vasconcelos Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. Departamento de Letras Modernas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5963.lilit.1990.115972

Keywords:

duplication of individual, fragmentation of personality, the subjecfs crisis

Abstract

This paper tries to discuss how Poe and Machado make the notion of reality into a problematic one by transforming it into a relm of paradox and contradiction. By means of the figure of the double, both short story writers create enigmatic narrators, thus questioning the relationship between these narrators and their reading public

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Author Biography

  • Sandra G. T. Vasconcelos, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. Departamento de Letras Modernas
    Professora de Literaturas Inglesa e Norte-Americana no Departamento de Letras Modernas, FFLCH, USP

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Published

1990-12-10

Issue

No. 18 (1990)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Vasconcelos, S. G. T. (1990). At the other side of the mirror. Língua E Literatura, 15(18), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5963.lilit.1990.115972