The educational role of literature

This article discusses the educational role of literature, looking for parallels between the theories of Plato (428/427–348/347 a.C.), Aristotle (384–322 a.C.), Antonio Candido (1918), Hans Robert Jaus (1921–1997) and Umberto Eco (1932). It ultimately sees the educational role as a synthesis of roles ascribed to literature from classical Antiquity to the present, since ultimately they converge towards the same point, viz. human education on the basis of the multiple elements that make up the aesthetic object.

ANTÍGONA E O MITO DA MULHER GUERREIRA

Este artigo apresenta um debate sobre as relações de aprendizagem que o Drama Moderno estabeleceu com as produções da antiguidade. Para diagnosticar essas idéias, fez-se um estudo comparativo da construção de duas personagens femininas, uma protagonizando a tragédia clássica Antígona, de Sófocles, que data aproximadamente 441a.C., e outra o drama moderno A Moratória, de Jorge Andrade, publicado em 1955. Com base na trajetória de ambas as personagens, promoveu-se uma relação entre as situações vivenciadas por elas no intuito de afirmar a aproximação entre elementos do pensamento clássico e do moderno, criando, dessa maneira, uma ponte entre as consciências a partir da crítica da influência de Umberto Eco (2003).

BETWEEN THE SONG AND THE TALE: EYE EYE FOR EYE OF CHICO BUARQUE NUS: EYES BY MIA COUTO

This paper proposes a reflection on the lyrics Eye to eye, written by Chico Buarque, and the tale nude Eyes: Eye of the Mozambican writer Mia Couto, writing to compose the collection This story is different: for ten thousand songs by Chico Buarque, organized by journalist Ronaldo Bressane in 2010. this book ten writers recreate Songbook carioca composer, with total freedom to reinvent prose the song they chose. In the work there are tales that are based on stories faithfully to music by Chico Buarque, others use them as soundtrack, scenery, atmosphere, some of the songs lend their structures and there are those who only use it as a theme. This paper then turns to the relationship built between fiction and music, watching the narrative dialogue established between the lyrics by Chico Buarque and the short story by Mia Couto, the fidelity pact established with the source text and the whole narrative structure that comes to life under the eye of Mia Couto. Finally, throughout the article we use the theoretical assumptions discussed as Silviano Santiago, Umberto Eco, Costa Lima, Leonor Arfuch among others so as to exploit the full context of this engaging narrative.

THE WAKE UP OF THE READER IN TERRA SONÂMBULA NOVEL

Terra Sonâmbula novel (1992) from Mozambican writer Mia Couto was published just in the year that civil war has been finished. The plot talks about a reading of Kindzu’s books by Muldinga boy to the old Tuahir. This reading becomes a vanishing point of a desolate land and a hopeless life to become in a gate of dreams. The narrative allows a study of compositional strategies, but those discussed here promote the reader’s  instance having as theoretical studies of Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes. The aim is to demonstrate how these characters/readers are manifested in the working plan and  seek hybridity in the proclamation of national identity. Thus, the empirical-readers are invited to wake up, bet, decipher puzzles spreaded by Mia couto throughout the ovel in a position of de-automatzation.

Um Narrador “Quase” Oral

O propósito deste artigo é identificar marcas do narrador de tradição oral na obra literária Quase de verdade, de Clarice Lispector, destinada ao público infanto-juvenil. Como âncora teórica, deteve-se, especificamente, no narrador da tradição oral defendido por Walter Benjamin (1994), e que se encontra na iminência de desaparecer. Observou-se que o cão Ulisses, narrador da produção literária clariceana, selecionada para este estudo, apresenta diversas características da oralidade, culminando assim em evidente dialogismo com as especificidades do narrador benjaminiano.