Poetry analysis in Libras based on Jauss’s theory of aesthetic experience

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the poetry “Farol da Barra”, according to Jauss' theory of aesthetic experience (1994). We also bring to the discussion the theoretical proposals of Figurelli (1988) and Zilberman (1989). Then, based on a qualitative analysis method, to legitimize the literary production to and from deaf people, we propose an analogy between the ideas defended by the reception aesthetic, mainly based on Jauss’ proposals, and the ideas evidenced by deaf poetry “Farol da Barra” created by a deaf author, Maurício Barreto, from Salvador - Bahia. In this sense, we conclude that as well as the literature of the like non-deaf, the Deaf Literature can be analyzed and perceived conceptually by the observer (reader), besides that it allows the deaf author to build aesthetic fruition inherent to poetry in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), according to the three conceptions of fundamental experiences of Jauss’s (1994), which are poiesis, aisthesis, and katharsis.

Keywords:
aesthetics of reception; deaf literature; Jauss