Abstract:
Haiku has been the target of a great quantity of analyzes. From Roland Barthes to Paulo Leminski, from Haroldo de Campos to Octavio Paz, the analyzes concentrate in the exact structure of the poem, on the brevity of the event, and on the phenomenology of the poet under the effect of this experience. Our purpose here is to make a phenomenological description of haiku, based on the faneroscopy and semiotics of C. S. Peirce. According to our approach, haiku is an iconic and indexical sign that represents an “department of mental action” (Peirce CP 7,539), altersense, which is the “consciousness of a directly present other, or second” (Peirce CP 7.551).
Keywords:
Haiku; Altersense; Phaneroscopy; Semiotics; Peirce