Far less and a lot more: an analysis of “Name”, by Arnaldo Antunes

Abstract

In this article we make use of the tensive "syllables ' of Claude Zilberberg to describe the edge points reached by Nome, a work conceived by Arnaldo Antunes and presented in three artistic forms: poem, song, and video. For that matter, we demonstrate that both the increase and the decrease of tensiinty equally apply to the positi-veness (more) and to the negativeness fless), what demands a special attention from the analyst to the orientation (upivards or downwards) that figures as the enunciator choice in the text. Such orientation differences are crucial to the analysis of meaning.