Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector : : The Différance of Desire / / Earl E. Fitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Fitz, Earl E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Texas Pan American Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; Chapter 1. CLARICE LISPECTOR AND THE "WRITING" OF POSTSTRUCTURALISM --; Chapter 2 A SEMIOTICS OF BEING: STYLE, STRUCTURE, AND MEANING IN A POSTSTRUCTURAL KEY --; Chapter 3 THE EROTICS OF BEING: SELF, OTHER, AND LANGUAGE --; Chapter 4 CHARACTERIZATIONS, RELATIONSHIPS, AND STATES OF BEING: FEMININE, MASCULINE, ANDROGYNOUS, AND NONGENDERED --; Chapter 5 FROM l'Écriture Feminine TO Littérature Engagée TO WRITING THE (SEMIOTIC) BODY (POLITIC): THE SOCIOPOLITICAL DIMENSION OF LISPECTOR'S Textes --; Chapter 6 PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE POSTSTRUCTURAL ANXIETIES OF THE LISPECTORIAN UNIVERSE --; CONCLUSION --; Appendix 1 THE WORKS OF CLARICE LISPECTOR --; Appendix 2 IN-TEXT ABBREVIATIONS --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292730687; 9783110745344
• DOI: 10.7560/725287
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Earl E. Fitz.

Driven by an unfulfilled desire for the unattainable, ultimately indefinable Other, the protagonists of the novels and stories of acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector exemplify and humanize many of the issues central to poststructuralist thought, from the nature of language, truth, and meaning to the unstable relationships between language, being, and reality. In this book, Earl Fitz demonstrates that, in turn, poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all aspects of Lispector's writing, including her style, sense of structure, characters, themes, and socio-political conscience. Fitz draws on Lispector's entire oeuvre—novels, stories, crônicas, and children's literature—to argue that her writing consistently reflects the basic tenets of poststructuralist theory. He shows how Lispector's characters struggle over and humanize poststructuralist dilemmas and how their essential sense of being is deeply dependent on a shifting, and typically transgressive, sense of desire and sexuality.