The Poetics of Sentiments of Antonio García Berrio

Abstract

The present article constitutes a study of the theory Poetics of Sentiments, or Sentimental Poetics, of the literary theorist Antonio García Berrio. First of all, we would deal with the present situation of the investigations about the concept of Poetics of Sentiments in order to demonstrate the insufficiency of its theoretic discussions and the necessity of its further study. Hence, we would outline a breve history of the evolutions of the above-mentioned concept in the thoughts of García Berrio in order to penetrate the genetic roots and the diachronic ratiocination of the Poetics of Sentiments. Lastly, we would attempt to establish relations between the Sentimental Poetics and the concepts of the cognitive linguistic circle so as to discover the confluences between the two perspectives, the cognitive basis of the first and the epistemological superiority of the above-mentioned poetics in comparison with the second, and furthermore, to reflect on the cognitive potentialities and the development of the possible constructivist dimensions of the Poetics of Sentiments.