Representações de leitores e leitoras na série Um Castelo no Pampa, de Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil

Abstract

This master’s dissertation addresses the representations of male and female readers in the series Um Castelo no Pampa, by Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, with analysis focused mainly on the characters Olimpio, Paris and Beatriz. To support the research were also identified some of the similarities and differences between literature and history. In this set of novels you can check that are revealed various aspects of the act of reading, especially to attend the motivations and most outstanding characteristics of those who read and are represented there. The theoretical and methodological approach of this research was supported especially by analyzes carried out by Chartier (1990, 1995, 2002, 2009, 2011) and Fraisse, Poupgnac & Poulain (1989) with respect to the representations and also to check questions as to the receipt of narrative, the dialogue analysis, respectively, with the studies Jauss (2002), Iser (1999) and Esteves (2009).