Machado De Assis's Philosopher or Dog?

The great Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) published five of his nine novels as feuilletons in daily newspapers or fortnightly women''s magazines. How were the structure and themes of those novels entangled with this serial-publication form? In da Silva''s important new study, textual scholarship, critical theory and the history of the book are combined in order to...