THE POEM “O BICHO” IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: PRODUCTION PROCESSES AND EFFECTS OF SENSE

Abstract

Based on theoretical concepts related to Discourse Analysis from French perspective, this paper proposes to reflect about the procedures of production of sense in the poem O bicho by Manuel Bandeira, in order to understand the discursive functioning of this significant materiality belonging to literary discourse. In this perspective, we seek to present contributions of Discourse Analysis as a theory of reading that can be applied to different texts, in particular, in this article, to the literary text. Thus, we start from an analysis of the processes of constitution, the formulation and movement of the poem, in the light of the concepts such as production conditions, discursive memory and the processes of paraphrase and polysemy developed by the Discourse Analyst Eni Orlandi, here in Brazil, grounded on a reflection on the relation between text and discourse. Thus, we seek to give visibility to the senses in operation in the text, which allowed us to work the contradiction that constitutes a “man” who is in a condition of bug and contemplate the paths of memory of say, in which senses evident related to debris and rest may be other and mean survival or the counterparty of consumption, in other words, what is outside.

Keywords

• Discourse Analysis
• Literary text
• Procedures of production of sense