Includes bibliographical references (p. [627]-645) Introduction: Machado de AssiśThe Location of an Author / Jo©Đo Cezar de Castro Rocha -- Machado de Assiś Reception and the Transformation of the Modern European Novel / Earl E. Fitz -- Dress and Female Intelligence: Intertextuality in Esau and Jacob / Pedro Armando de Almeida Magalh©Đes -- Readings of Balzac in Twentieth-Century Brazil: The Case of Machado de Assis / Gilberto Pinheiro Passos -- The Shandean Form: Laurence Sterne and Machado de Assis / Sergio Paulo Rouanet -- Machado de Assis, Critic of E©ʹa de Queir©đśA Symptomatic Misunderstanding / Jo©Đo Camilo dos Santos -- Hamlet the Brazilian Way (Machado, Reader of Shakespeare) / Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos -- Machado de Assis, a Contemporary Writer / Jo©Đo Almino -- Machado and Modernism / Ra©ðl Antelo -- Machado de Assis on Popular Music: A Case for Cultural Studies in Nineteenth-Century Latin America / Idelber Avelar -- Raymundo Faoro, Reader of Machado de Assis / Alfredo Bosi -- Around My Room and Around Life / Antonio Candido -- Fictionalizations of the Reader in Machado de Assiś Novels / H©♭lio de Seixas Guimar©Đes -- The Cannibal Metaphor in Machado de Assis / K. David Jackson -- The Skeptical Paradox in Machado de Assis / Gustavo Bernardo Krause -- Machado and the Cost of Reading / Marisa Lajolo and Regina Zilberman -- The Development of a Skeptical Life: View in the Fiction of Machado de Assis / Jos©♭ Raimundo Maia Neto -- The Place of Machado de Assis in the Present / Daniel Piza -- Machado de Assis: A Keen Look at Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Identity / Maria Aparecida Ferreira de Andrade Salgueiro -- Master among the Ruins / Michael Wood -- The Beautiful Form of Sadness: Machado de Assis' Memorial de Aires / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Four Stomachs and a Brain: An Interpretation of Esa©ð e Jac©đ / Stephen M. Hart -- How is the Second Life of Br©Łs Cubas Different from His First One? / Victor J. Mendes -- Absence of Time: The Counseloŕs Dreams / Pedro Meira Monteiro -- The (Lack of) Feeling of What Happens: Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro / Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer -- Irony in Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro: Reflections on Anti-Tragic Cordiality / Kathrin H. Rosenfield -- Strategies of Deceit: Dom Casmurro / Marta de Senna -- Some Unknown Chapters of the First Version of Quincas Borba Serialized in A Esta©ʹ©Đo / Ana Cl©Łudia Suriani da Silva -- Sentimental Commerce and Moral Accountancy in Mem©đrias p©đstumas de Br©Łs Cubas / Bluma Waddington Vilar -- Picturing Machado de Assis -- The Paradox of the Alienist / Abel Barros Baptista -- Under the Guise of Science / Ivo Barbieri -- Paradigms at Play: The Short Stories of Machado de Assis / Paul Dixon -- The Short Story in the Works of Machado de Assis and Horacio Quiroga: A Material Aesthetic? / Pablo Rocca -- Rosebud́ and the Holy Grail: A Hypothesis for Re-Reading Machado de Assiś Short Stories / Jo©Đo Cezar de Castro Rocha -- Machado de Assis, the Apprentice Journalist / Cristiane Costa -- Machado de Assis and Nationalism: The Americanas Case / Jos©♭ Lu©Ưs Jobim -- The Poetry of Machado de Assis / Cl©Łudio Murilo Leal -- Cr©þnica in Fifteen Themes / Ana Miranda -- Quincas Borba in A Esta©ʹ©Đo / Marcus Vinicius Nogueira Soares -- A Season in Casa Verde / Alfred MacAdam -- Machado de Assis in English: A Selected Bibliography / K. David Jackson -- Machado de Assis / Jos©♭ Saramago -- Machado de Assis in Portugal / Arnaldo Saraiva