Uma introdução ao cânone: ampliação de repertório e letramento literário através de O Cortiço de Aluísio Azevedo e uma adaptação em HQ de Ronaldo Antonelli

Abstract

This dissertation, which is based on the teaching of Literature, was developed with the aim of promoting the expansion of repertoire, a set of laws and elements that govern the production of texts as stated by Zoar (1974), in a class of the 9th year of the second elementary school segment, from the simultaneous reading of some chapters of the canonical work O cortiço, by Aluísio de Azevedo, and a comic adaptation by Ronaldo Antonelli. The choice for these novels is due to the fact that these works analyze the social issues that directly or indirectly affect the individuals who form a society, and are therefore not usual in the classroom. These books present controversial themes and generate controversial opinions, providing different readings for the same text. It is important to say that teachers, in general, avoid these themes. Thus, we proposed reading O cortiço by Aluísio de Azevedo and adapting Ronaldo Antonelli’s graphic novel, so that a dialogue can take place and the insertion of a classic with a social theme can be inserted in the second segment of elementary school. This work is based on the theoretical assumptions about literary literacy (COSSON, 2012), (PAULINO; COSSON, 2009), repertoire (ISER, 1999; ZOAR, 2013), literary polysystem (ZOAR, 2013), community of readers (COSSON, 2014; COLOMER, 2007), literary canon (ZOAR, 2013; PAULINO, 2004) and concepts from the comic book language universe, especially framing, sequentiality (MACLOUD, 1993) and adaptation (HUTCHEON, 2013). It is worth mentioning that this research is important for making students have proximity to works of a social nature, the unfamiliarity with this type of novel ends up causing a strangeness and a certain refusal of students when they enter high school, specifically in the context to which this research is inserted.