Afrânio Coutinho (March 15, 1911 – August 5, 2000) was a Brazilian
literary critic and
essayist
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. He encouraged the rise of the "New Criticism" in Brazil of the 1950s. Coutinho edited the
Portuguese
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version of
Reader's Digest
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as well as several reference works on Brazilian literature. He also taught literature at several universities.
Works
*''Daniel Rops e a ânsia do sentido novo da existência'' - ensaio (1935)
*''O humanismo, ideal de vida'' - ensaio (1938)
*''L'Exemple du métissage, in L'Homme de couleur'' - ensaio (1939)
*''A filosofia de Machado de Assis'' - crítica (1940)
*''Aspectos da literatura barroca'' - história literária (1951)
*''O ensino da literatura'' - discurso de posse na cátedra de Literatura do
Colégio Pedro II
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(1952)
*''Correntes cruzadas'' - crítica (1953)
*''Da crítica e da nova crítica'' (1957)
*''Euclides, Capistrano e Araripe'' - crítica (1959)
*''Introdução à literatura no Brasil'' - história literária (1959)
*''A crítica'' (1959)
*''Machado de Assis na literatura brasileira'' - crítica (1960)
*''Conceito de literatura brasileira'' - ensaio (1960)
*"O Impressionismo na Literatura Brasileira - In Cadernos Brasileiros #3 (1962)
*''No hospital das letras'' - polêmica (1963)
*''A polêmica Alencar-Nabuco'' - história literária (1965)
*''Crítica e poética'' - ensaio (1968)
*''A tradição afortunada'' - história literária (1968)
*''Crítica e críticos'' (1969)
*''Caminhos do pensamento crítico'' - ensaios (1974)
*''Notas de teoria literária'' - didática (1976)
*''Universidade, instituição crítica'' - ensaio (1977)
*''Evolução da crítica literária brasileira'' - história literária (1977)
*''O erotismo na literatura: o caso Rubem Fonseca'' - crítica (1979)
*''Tristão de Athayde, o crítico'' - crítica (1980)
*''O processo da descolonização literária'' - história literária (1983)
*''As formas da literatura brasileira'' - ensaio (1984)
*''Reformulação do currículo de Letras'' - educação (1984)
*''Impertinências'' - artigos e ensaios (1990)
*''Do Barroco'' - ensaios (1994)
References
1911 births
2000 deaths
Brazilian essayists
Brazilian literary critics
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
20th-century essayists
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