@book{publication-6615,
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {De Gruyter},
  isbn = {978-3-11161-012-2},
  edition = {1.},
  url = {https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111610146/html},
  address = {Berlin},
  title = {Roberto Schwarz Beyond Borders},
  editor = {Laura Rivas Gagliardi and Melanie Strasser and Claudio Cardinali},
  abstract = {The point of departure for this volume is the work of the Austrian Brazilian critic Roberto Schwarz on literature and culture. Since the 1970s, both his essayistic and dramatic writings have been impacting radical debates that transcend national and disciplinary borders. His international interlocutors include Beatriz Sarlo, Fredric Jameson, Franco Moretti, Susan Sontag, among many others.
In this volume, scholars from various contexts discuss Schwarz’s critical legacy, approaching it with new perspectives and relating it to different research objects. The topics addressed range from literature to issues of sociology, theory, translation, politics, etc. Despite the variety of themes, the contributions are interrelated by their common background: the Schwarzian approach. In particular, this volume reflects the radicality of a perspective which, through the formal analysis of, for example, a novel, achieves to shed light on sociohistorical dynamics not evident until then.
Especially in an intellectual scenario that is increasingly interested in the decentralization of thought and therefore in understanding global power relations in the culture, this volume is a unique contribution to the international critical debate.

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Contents
Claudio Cardinali, Laura Rivas Gagliardi, Melanie Strasser: Introduction 1
I Misplacing Ideas. Theoretical Frameworks
Jacques Leenhardt: Questions on the Notion of “Misplaced Ideas” 15
Nicholas Brown: Dialectic of Realism 23
Claudio Cardinali: History and Form in Adorno and Schwarz 33
Jorge Grespan: The Double Dialectic of Schwarz’s Machado de Assis 45
II Shifting Borders. Literary Criticism
Natasha Belfort Palmeira: Changing Parameters 59
G. S. Sahota: Southern Dialectics: Roberto Schwarz and the Question of Progress 69
Joachim Küpper: Roberto Schwarz and Peter Szondi: A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism and Theory of the Modern Drama 77
III On the Threshold. Brazilian Scenarios
Jobst Welge: The Dialectics of Literary Form: Roberto Schwarz, Novel Theory, and Recent Criticism on Machado de Assis 91
Laura Rivas Gagliardi: Malandragem and Volubility 105
Felipe Catalani: Nothingness in the Brazilian Sense of the Term – Roberto Schwarz and the Social Ground of Nihilism 123
Pedro Mora-Madriñán: Brecht after the End of History: the Contemporary Relevance of Epic Theater in Roberto Schwarz’s Rainha Lira 135
IV Beyond Brazil. Transnational Connections
Neil Larsen: Objective Form and “Revelatory Dissonance” in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: an Experimental Schwarzian Reading of Mark Twain 153
Stefan Helgesson: Literary Accumulation Otherwise, or, Reading Roberto Schwarz in South Africa 167
Rodrigo Ennes: Some misplaced ideas about The Maias 179
Epilogue: A Translator’s Note
Melanie Strasser: Exile, Homeland and Translation 193
About the authors 199
Index 203},
  keywords = {Kritische Theorie,Weltliteratur,Literaturwissenschaft,Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft,Literaturtheorie,Postcolonial Studies,Sprachübergreifend},
}
