Alcides Maya, crítico de Machado : o humor como diferença

Abstract

The essays by Alcides Maya show the changements the 19th century literary criticism in Rio Grande do Sul have undergone. In this respect, the essay “Machado de assis: algumas notas sobre o humour” (1912) makes the reading of the passage from the naturalistic literary criticism to another based on the questions of erudition and cosmopolitism, antecipating the very issues of contemporary comparative approaches as in literature. The comparative approach to the study of the humour also contributed 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 Assis himself in “Notícia de Literatura Brasileira: Instituto de Nacionalidade” (1873).