Date of Award
4-17-2008
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Calvin Thomas - Chair
Second Advisor
Michael Galchinsky - Co-Chair
Third Advisor
Louis Ruprecht
Abstract
This thesis undertakes to explore silence as it functions in relation to intimacy in Clarice Lispector’s last narrative. It asks how silence, when perceived as a generative force, may cultivate intimacy between men and women, opening up a horizon of equality and exchange between the sexes. Using Lispector’s work as a symbolic location for asking larger questions about the role of Eros in contemporary literature, the first chapter is dedicated to introducing her work as it relates to the critical canon. After examining silence and intimacy as each have been conceptualized by thinkers from various philosophical traditions, I incorporate the recent work of Luce Irigaray, which has integrated Western discourse and Eastern mystical concepts of the intimate to articulate a new kind of male/female reciprocity. I apply Irigarayan theory to Lispector’s text as a way of enriching the academic scholarship regarding Lispector.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1059490
Recommended Citation
Dulaney, Susan Katherine, "Clarice Lispector's an Apprenticeship, or the Book of Delights: The Role of Silence in the Cultivation of Intimacy"." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2008.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1059490