O espaço narrativo em O Hobbit, de J. R. R. Tolkien: uma proposta de abordagem para o sétimo ano do Ensino Fundamental II

Abstract

This paper, conceived within the scope of Prof. Letters-UFJF, aims to present an interventional proposal for teaching Literature in the seventh year of Elementary School, seeking to expand the students' repertoire about the Narrative Space, by studying this category in JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. The choice for Tolkien's work arose from the fact that the author sets his narrative in Middle-Earth, a fictitious space created by him, in a process that he, by himself, calls “sub-creation”, and which rescues elements of fairy tales and of ancient Anglo -Saxon and Christian myths (CARPENTER, 2018; CHEVALIER; GHEERBRANT, 2019; KIRMSE, 2003; KLAUTAU, 2019; LANGER, 2015; TOLKIEN, 2010). The research started from the study of the dimensions traditionally attributed to the narrative category of Space – physical, social, and psychological – to a deeper perspective, around the nuances of meaning generated by the conceptions of place, scenery, nature, territory, environment, and atmosphere, as well as his propositions for the understanding of Space in the narrative and its multiple functions (ABDALA JÚNIOR, 1995; BORGES FILHO, 2020). The study was also supported by a theoretical framework related to the nature and importance of literature (ANTONIO CANDIDO, 2004) and how to adequately address it in classroom (COLOMER, 2007), in order to develop literary literacy (PAULINO; COSSON, 2009) and to expand the repertoire of the young reader (EVEN-ZOHAR, 2013; ISER, 1996). We developed a proposal for intervention, aiming to make the students realize the complexity of the Narrative Space in the selected work, processing such information in their spatial inventories, identifying its features and functions in the narrative context. This proposal is exposed in detail in the Pedagogical Section that accompanies this dissertation, so that other teachers can come to know it and if they wish to apply it in their classes