Fenomenologia da expressão literária : clássico e barroco em Jorge de Sena

Abstract

The author proposes an aesthetic phenomenology of literary expression. Using Jorge de Sena's literary typology as a starting point, he develops a criticism of method which underscores the fundamental duality of the literary object, both historical and phenomenological, and reviews the formation process of the aesthetical concepts «classic», «baroque» and «mannerism», focusing the debate on the central theoretical positions assumed by Heinrich Wolfflin, Henri Focillon, Eugenio D'Ors and Ernst Robert Curtius, along with the contributions of some of the theorists most involved in the study of this problem. The systemic articulation between the general and elementary character of aesthetical categories and the particular and complex character of styles allows the author to build a morphogenetic model of literary analysis, which describes the emergent movement of the fundamental formants (type, topos and trope), organized in a sucessive synthesis at various levels of representation. The model is applied to Jorge de Sena's own poetry.