DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF DEATH AND LIFE OF A SEVERINO: THE ARGUMENTATION WITH THINGS BY JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO, THE POET OF REASON?
The aim of this work is to Analyse the argumentation in the play Death and Life of a Severino, in order to verify if there are elements in this process that justify the discourse that João Cabral de Melo Neto is the poet of reason, sustained by critics, scholars and by the writer himself in several interviews. As method of investigation, it is used some key concepts of French Discourse Analysis, such as discourse, interdiscourse, discursive formation, ideological formation and imaginary formations, which we discuss and apply to three parts of Death and Life of a Severino. Notwithstanding the diferences concerning the meaning of reason among several rationalist philosophers, it was taken as a platonic idea, position antidiscursive at first. The interpretation of the corpus reveals the interpellation of irrationalist discursive formations, for logos (reason, word) shows itself inefficient both to describe and to argue in the most famous opus of the Pernambucan poet. The solution for such impotence is using concrete things as proof.
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF DEATH AND LIFE OF A SEVERINO: THE ARGUMENTATION WITH THINGS BY JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO, THE POET OF REASON?
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.929272226101
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Palavras-chave: : Discouse Analysis; argumentation; João Cabral de Melo Neto; Death and Life of a Severino
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Keywords: Discouse Analysis; argumentation; João Cabral de Melo Neto; Death and Life of a Severino
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Abstract:
The aim of this work is to Analyse the argumentation in the play Death and Life of a Severino, in order to verify if there are elements in this process that justify the discourse that João Cabral de Melo Neto is the poet of reason, sustained by critics, scholars and by the writer himself in several interviews. As method of investigation, it is used some key concepts of French Discourse Analysis, such as discourse, interdiscourse, discursive formation, ideological formation and imaginary formations, which we discuss and apply to three parts of Death and Life of a Severino. Notwithstanding the diferences concerning the meaning of reason among several rationalist philosophers, it was taken as a platonic idea, position antidiscursive at first. The interpretation of the corpus reveals the interpellation of irrationalist discursive formations, for logos (reason, word) shows itself inefficient both to describe and to argue in the most famous opus of the Pernambucan poet. The solution for such impotence is using concrete things as proof.
- Márcio José da Silva
