Travessias (Dec 2009)
BACHELARD AND THE RATE ANALYSIS
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 concepts origin is tracked in two essays from the book tudes (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 dure (The Dialectics of Duration). Finally, the concept is shown at full hermeneutic blossom in the collected articles that make up Le droit de rver (The Right to Dream), in which the works of artists as distinct as Mallarm, Poe, Rimbaud, Eluard, Michelet and Balzac are poetically and rythmanalytically appraised.
