Figura Hujus Mundi: figuras líricas da temporalidade na poesia de E. Dickinson

A wide selection of Emily Dickinson’s poems is discussed and interpreted in this work in order to support the following main theses:
1) Temporal experience is aporetical, cognitively fractured by the contradiction among dimensions that are both necessary and incompatible (such as the contradiction between duration and succession, between continuous and discontinuous; the gap between here and now and the resulting theoretical indeterminability of presence in the frame of perceptive experience).
2) Its aporetical character makes impossible a theoretical description of temporal experience as a whole, and requires switching to the expressive-interpretative approach of a plurality of figural discourses about time. Neither homogeneous nor totalising, this discursive panoply finds a first significant attestation in Paul’s writings.
3) In the plurality of the figural registers that frames temporal experience, a unique role has to be recognised to lyrical figurality. By reconstructing this discourse form as a modality of exposing the inner experience through the outer experience, of articulating the intentional by the perceptive, its efficacy in intercepting and exposing the synchronical-perceptive aspects of temporal experience and its contradictory character may be highlighted
The lyrical register hence combines with, without being assimilated by, other figural registers (such as the reflexive-phenomenological, cosmological, narrative, dramatic, hermeneutical-performative) of expressive-interpretative processing of temporal experience.


KEYWORDS

Figure – Temporality – Dickinson – Paul - Lyrics