Fashion and Irony in «Dom Casmurro»

ISBN-13: 9781789979725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 176 str.

Geanneti Tavares Salomon

Opis

This study brings us closer to understanding the relationship between fashion and literature. In Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro, fashion serves as a literary strategy that supports the ironic approach of the book. This book gives insight into Brazilian society in transition at the end of the nineteenth century.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Fashion and Literature - Society and Fashion in the Nineteenth Century: The Ironic Game in Dom Casmurro - Machado de Assis and Dom Casmurro - Final Considerations.

O autorze

Geanneti Tavares Salomon teaches fashion, art and design at Una University Centre in Belo Horizonte/Brazil. She holds a PhD in Literary Studies from Federal University of Minas Gerais/Brazil and has published previously on fashion and literature: Moda e ironia em Dom Casmurro (2010), A história na moda, a moda na história (chapter, 2019), Dossier Revista d'Obras A moda na literatura e a literatura na moda (editor, 2020). She also has experience as a fashion designer, costume designer and stylist.