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| Author(s): |
Daniela Mercedes Kahn
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2000-08-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Regina Lucia Pontieri;
Cleusa Rios Pinheiro Passos;
Jose Antonio Pasta Junior
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| Advisor: | Regina Lucia Pontieri |
| Abstract | |
The main idea exposed in this dissertation is that structure and content of Clarice Lispetors fiction follow a pattern, where the limits between the "Self" and the "Other" are not clearly defined. The first chapter, which analyses the short story "A Quinta História" ("The Fifth Story") focuses on the plasticity of Lispectors text, showing how it wawers between accepting and rejecting the conventions of genre. The second chapter tries to cover the different ways of figuring the other through the analysis of several short texts, moving from the most primitive forms of identification of self towards the recognition of the difference of "the other" up to the representation of the other as an outcast. Finally, the last chapter focuses on the matter of the social space of "the other" through "author", "narrator", "character" and "reader" relationships in the novel A Hora da Estrela (The Hour of the Star). The aim is to show how the very structure of the novel mirrors the lack of social space proposed as the theme of the story. (AU) | |