澳门六合彩开奖记录

Misplaced Ideas: the Contradiction of Science in Machado de Assis

Viviane's project will historicize and analyse the scientific discourse in the novels and short stories of the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. Her听hypothesis is that the self-professed liberal and independent scientific discourse in Brazil in the nineteenth century is deconstructed by the writer in order to reveal its recondite social tensions, such as class struggle and gender and racial inequalities. Her听theoretical perspective will update Roberto Schwarz鈥檚 socio-historical reading of the writer, also applying Fredric Jameson鈥檚 formalist interpretation of the Realist novel and Michel Foucault鈥檚 theories of biopower. Such a socio-literary analysis can contribute to ongoing parallel scholarly enquiries into how the Portuguese Empire used medical discoveries to rule and control the general population.