Quando a neve é geral: o papel da percepção na escrita lírica. Uma leitura de Joyce

Putting aside descriptions that identify lyric writing, formally, by its rhetoric density and semantic ambiguity, or, from a matter’s standpoint, by the confessional and emotional expression of the subject’s inner self, we present the notion that lyrical “figurality” is a form of speech where perceptive experience becomes interpretative expression of inner experience. By symbolically articulating the intentional matters by means of the perceptive matters, lyrical “figurality” specializes, but it does not identify itself with lyrical poetry, being also present in common language and in prose. A reading of Joyce’s “The Dead” final page develops and tests this working hypothesis, rebuilding the extraordinary figurative architecture in which recorded perceptive data are organized in this page as a lyrical epiphany of the short- story’s sense.