%0 Journal Article
%T A proje£¿£¿o especular de uma nova teoria da alma humana
%A Crestani
%A Jaison Lu¨ªs
%J Machado de Assis em Linha
%D 2012
%I Funda??o Casa de Rui Barbosa
%R 10.1590/S1983-68212012000100005
%X in the tradition of machadian studies, the short story "o espelho" tends to be analysed in a critical perspective that legitimizes the supposed seriousness of the arbitrary speech of the narrator-character jacobina. from this point of view, the narrative is understood according to philosophical, existential and psychological standards, and the extravagant metaphysical theories of jacobina are considered as a valid and authentic demonstration of the human essence. trying to overcome these interpretative distortions, this paper proposes a redefinition of critical perspectives in order to give priority to the analysis of structural procedures that mobilize a strategic irony with the aim of disqualifying this narrator-character and satirizing the content of his metaphysical investigations.
%K short stories
%K narrator
%K irony
%K satire.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1983-68212012000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en