The dynamic-contextual-method applied to one of Ricardo Reis' Odes

Abstract

Through the contextual approach (Slama-Cazacu, 1984), we try to restore the speech chain that ties the writer (poet or novelist) to the receiver (the absent reader) both in different spaces and times. We try to unveil the moment or moments of the birth of text when past experiences directly lived by the author (see the role of these data in Prado Coelho, 1963:285-290) are mixed with the voices of other authors read by him and which are the starting factors of the text. Finally, we try to understand the different interpretations given by readers whose cognitive schemata were fed by other cosmovisions and to investigate why, nevertheless, the link still remains possible.