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Bachelard e a Ritmanálise

2009

Abstract

The present essay is a study on one of the most original contributions proposed by Gaston Bachelard to the poetic interpretation of literary works: rythmanalysis or rythmanalytic method. Inspired on microphysics principle of complementarity, rythmanalysis aims at aprehending the ambiguous and ambivalent operation of imagination, which indulges in harmonizing contrary movements. First, the concept’s origin is tracked in two essays from the book Etudes (Studies). In a second moment, we follow it up to its consumation in the investigation the philosopher undertakes on time in La dialectique de la duree (The Dialectics of Duration). Finally, the concept is shown at full hermeneutic blossom in the collected articles that make up Le droit de rever (The Right to Dream), in which the works of artists as distinct as Mallarme, Poe, Rimbaud, Eluard, Michelet and Balzac are poetically and rythmanalytically appraised.