A experiência dos limites na poética de Paulo Leminski / The experience of limits in the poetics of Paulo Leminski
AUTOR(ES)
Elizabeth Rocha Leite
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008
RESUMO
The poetry of Paulo Leminski (1944-89), written in Brazil between the 1960s and the 1980s, displays a constant attitude of experimentation that opens up possibilities for questioning the relationships between thought, world and language. By retracing the development of his career as a writer and analyzing the ways in which he created his language games, I set out to discover the logic of his poetics and its links to the materiality of the linguistic sign. As a poet and author of fiction, but also as a producer of advertising copy, song lyrics, literary criticism and translations, Leminski always took verbal language in its many different dimensions as his object and raw material. In the period discussed (1960s, 70s and 80s), when theories of signs and discourse predominated in literary studies, Leminski developed his metalinguistic and reflexive poetics as a field for experiencing and experimenting with limits that other poets had not yet tested at all or only very marginally. He also questioned the concept of poetry as literary text, as the expression of a written language conveyed in books to a learned audience. For Leminski poetry was part of semiotics, of the world of signs that encompasses all other forms of art as well as information and communication. Poetry is visual language and sound as well as verbal language, pursuing its own logic to express thoughts and life forms. My research focuses on some aspects of the theory of language and of the literary theory evinced at various levels by Leminskis poetic practice. The questions raised are pertinent in the context of different contemporary currents of thought which consider language a privileged field for the operation of the subject and the creation of meaning.
ASSUNTO(S)
philosophy of language experience of limits filosofia da linguagem poesia experimental poetic logic lógica poética experiência de limites experimental poetry
