ALCIDES MAYA, CRÍTICO DE MACHADO: O HUMOUR COMO DIFERENÇA

Abstract

The essays by Alcides Maya show the changements the 19th century literary criticism in RioGrande do Sul have undergone. In this respect, the essay “Machado de assis: algumas notas sobre ohumour” (1912) makes the reading of the passage from the naturalistic literary criticism to anotherbased on the questions of erudition and cosmopolitism, antecipating the very issues of contemporarycomparative approaches as in literature. The comparative approach to the study of the humour alsocontributed to revitalize the paradigms of the Brazilian literary criticism at the end do the 19th century,by rejecting the reducing aspects of nationalism and following the path initated by Machado de Assishimself in “Notícia de Literatura Brasileira: Instituto de Nacionalidade” (1873).