Abstract

Literature can be perceived from certain paradigms considered referential and a priori. However, the sublime sentiment allows us to recognise the excess and absence of pre-established rules, establishing a differentiated space for the perception of literature in its various dimensions, both with regard to the production and reception of literary texts, and in relation to undertaken theoretical-critical approaches. The purpose of this seminar is to reflect on the sublime dimension in some short stories by Clarice Lispector. The sublime can be considered as a fissure of the literary hegemonic, privileged space of reassessment of patterns and paradigms, by admitting the limitless, the informed and the paradoxical. Kantian thought points out that nature contributes to the awakening of the sublime sentiment, not by its forms, but by its greatness and strength. When approaching this conceptualisation to literature, we would argue that the perspective is not centred on the change itself, but on the possibility of change, which illuminates reflection on the sublime through different eras and styles, since there will always be a new possibility for literary manifestations and the sublime is this state of expectation for the becoming. Through sublime sentiment, art is always pushed to reassess its limits, and Clarice Lispector represents this level of tension and instability when female authorship and representation are rethought through the author herself and her literary work.

Bio note

Rosana Cássia Kamita (Federal University of Santa Catarina/CAPES/CNPq) - Associate Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), lecturer in Graduate and Postgraduate Studies in Literature. Coordinator of the Working Group on Women in Literature, from Anpoll (National Association of Postgraduate Studies in Literature and Linguistics), during the 2014-2016 biennium.  Member of the Research Group of the Institute of Gender Studies - IEG/UFSC. Member of the Journal of Feminist Studies - REF. Coordinator of the Literature Nucleus - Feminist and Postcolonial Studies of Narratives of Contemporaneity. Co-coordinator of IEG - Institute of Gender Studies, Federal University of Santa Catarina between 2016-2017. She has several published works in the area of feminist and gender studies. Currently conducting a post-doctorate degree at the University of Porto, with a CAPES scholarship. CNPq Research Productivity Scholarship - Level 2.

Activity under the Doctoral Programme «Feminist Studies» (FLUC/CES)