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Yeazell, Ruth Bernard

doi:10.2307/j.ctvc779dd

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“…v. 7,n. 13,junho 54 The performance going on before his eyes simultaneously enchants, blinds, and challenges Strether. His gossip-filled letters to Mrs. Newsome are accordingly biased, and although he seems to be "in the know", he only knows in part.…”

Section: Knowledge and The Oraclementioning

confidence: 99%

Experience at home and innocence abroad: social and cultural capital in Machado de Assis's Esaú e Jacó and Henry James's the ambassadors

Beyer¹

2014

Machado Assis Linha

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This study examines two literary worlds fashioned by epic authors Machado de Assis and Henry James. In the novels Esaú e Jacó (1904) and The Ambassadors (1903), the writers explore the theme of ambassadorship. In these two texts, key characters act as emissaries. Councilor Aires, Lambert Strether, and Sarah Pocock discover that ambassadorial service brings with it many complications. Each of them fulfills his or her mission in a particular way and does so with differing motives. For these three individuals, access to and interpretation of information becomes decisive in fulfilling their respective commissions. This information circulates in distinct ways, yet the ability to access and understand the information depends on each ambassador's social and cultural "capital", as can be seen in the theories of Pierre Bourdieu. Keywords

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Section: Knowledge and The Oraclementioning

confidence: 99%