RT Journal Article
T1 Radical Intimacy in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo
A1 Carregal Romero, José
AB Drawing on care ethics and vulnerability theory, this study addresses the prominent role of intimacy in Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo (2024), set in contemporary Ireland. Written in a language that focuses on the protagonists’ interiority, bodily sensations, and emotional world, the novel vividly portrays a “radical” sense of intimacy which helps characters reassess their phobias and insecurities within their closest relationships. As will be argued, intimacy in Rooney’s Intermezzo is not just a matter of human connection, but of a personal transformation that allows protagonists to move away from the neoliberal and patriarchal values, norms, and stereotypes of today’s world.
PB Universidad de Valladolid
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27396
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27396
LA eng
NO Carregal Romero, J. (2025). Radical Intimacy in Sally Rooney’s <i>Intermezzo</i> ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies, 46, 190–211. https://doi.org/10.24197/nfh5j274
NO The research for this article was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the European Regional Development Fund and the Spanish Research Agency through the research projects “INTRUTHS 2: Articulations of Individual and Communal Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Irish Writing,” PID2020-114776GB-I00 MCIN/AEI, and “Posthuman Intersections in Irish and Galician Literatures,” PID2022-136251NB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF: A Way of Making Europe”.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026