Writing by Ear, the Aural Novel, and Echopoetics: A Listening Vocabulary for Literary Analysis

Marilia Librandi

Page 113-126

Abstract:Given the robust plurivocality that has characterized literature in Brazil since its colonial inception, and the eminently (and explicitly) receptive stance that many of its modern authors have adopted, I have structured my argument to follow two intersecting paths. Firstly, Clarice Lispector’s notion of “writing by ear” serves as a foundation for a renewed history of Brazilian literature, framed as a history of active listening. Secondly, the hope is to offer a Luso-Afro- Amerindian-Brazilian contribution to Latin American criticism, turning the semantic range of terms related to edges, margins, and borders into a more explicit semiotics of corporeality and performativity revolving around the ears and sound, echoes and silence, more generally.

Keywords:Clarice Lispector, Machado de Assis, Oswald de Andrade, João Guimarães Rosa

Doi:10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202102011

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