Afrânio Coutinho
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Afrânio Coutinho (March 15, 1911 – August 5, 2000) was a Brazilian
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. He encouraged the rise of the "New Criticism" in Brazil of the 1950s. Coutinho edited the Portuguese version of
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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 (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 literary critics Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters 20th-century Brazilian essayists {{Brazil-writer-stub