Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Dulaney, Susan Katherine Author's Email Address sdulaney1@student.gsu.edu URN etd-04162008-170108 Title Clarice Lispector's An Apprenticeship, or the Book of Delights: The Role of Silence in the Cultivation of Intimacy" Degree Master of Arts Department English Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Calvin Thomas Committee Chair Michael Galchinsky Committee Co-Chair Louis Ruprecht Committee Member Keywords
- the divine
- To Be Two
- Luce Irigaray
- mutual reciprocity
- George Kalamaras
- The Way of Love
- Eros
- Anna Khasnabish
- intimacy
- silence
- Clarice Lispector
Date of Defense 2008-04-04 Availability unrestricted 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.Files
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