Abstract
Resumo: Este artigo reflete sobre a dimensão afetiva da leitura de textos poéticos e ficcionais. Proponho que a imaginação é o espaço em que nos aproximamos das obras literárias por meio de sensações e emoções. Para tal, desenvolvo um conceito de presença voltado para a experiência literária, em que o corpo do leitor é mobilizado a partir de efeitos disparados pelo texto em contato com seu imaginário.
Highlights
RESUMO ‒ Uma Alma que Dança ou Despenca: corpo e presença na experiência literária ‒ Este artigo reflete sobre a dimensão afetiva da leitura de textos poéticos e ficcionais
I develop a reflection on the potentialities of somatic activation by means of the presence effects triggered by literary texts
The main objective of this essay is to propose a concept of presence that unbinds it from the need for an immediate material and sensible stimulus, transposing it, instead, to a dimension where presence is expressed by way of its effects: the imaginary
Summary
Starting from the reflection on the phenomenon of the phantom limb taken as a kind of yearning for world that manifests itself when we are not selfconscious of this yearning – “an illusion, not a delusion” – Merleau-Ponty can return to the problem of the body tout court: if the phantom is the response of the habitual body to an action that the present body can no longer perform, the same paradox is present in all of us, since we can only sensorially perceive the world when we are not aware that we are doing it. If the body is our contact surface with sensible objects, and if it undoubtedly responds, in the form of affects, to the stimuli of literary texts, it would be short of absurd to reject the proposition that the material world and the fictional/imaginary world interpenetrate, by means of the body In his working notes on The Visible and the Invisible, Merleau-Ponty If we recall Merleau-Ponty’s intuition that “being in the world” presupposes a pre-objective relationship between the body and the sensible world – in which the body exists because there is an exterior that demands from it a response – we may conclude that, being excused from everyday demands, the body, in bed, is available, in its entirety, to become present – or to become a presence – in the imaginary realm. That sometimes the cleavage between “inside” and “outside” forges a dissonance that eliminates the possibility of redundancy and boosts the power of imagination
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