Control of the Imaginary: Reason and Imagination in Modern Times: 50 (Theory & History of Literature S.) - Hardcover

Lima, Luiz Costa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816615624 ISBN 13: 9780816615629

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1989

Synopsis

Costa Lima examines European literary traditions from the perspective of a Latin American who sees the culture of his native Brazil haunted by unresolved questions from the Northern Hemisphere.

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About the Author

Luiz Costa Lima is a full professor of Comparative Literature, at Pontificia Universidade Catolica, in Rio de Janeiro. He has taught at the University of Minnesota (1984-6), and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, Montreal, Paris VIII, Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico). He has also been a research at the Zenter fur literarische Forschung (Berlin). In 1992, he received the Humboldt Preis for his work as a foreign researcher in Humanities. His books are originally published in Portuguese. Three of them are translated into English: Control of the imaginary: Reason and imagination in modern times, University of Minnesota Press, Minn, 1988. The Dark side or reason: Fictionality and power, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1992. The Limits of voice: Montaigne, Schlegel, Kafka, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1996. His most recent book, Historia. Ficao: Literature, won a prize for the best theoretical book on literature published in Brazil during 2006.

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Edition details

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816615624
• ISBN 13: 9780816615629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 273