Ramos, Patricia de Lara UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE 2018 Abstract: The main objective of this research is to analyze the images that ...
Ramos, Patricia de Lara
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE
2018
Abstract:
The main objective of this research is to analyze the images that symbolize death in the wonderful stories of the contemporary writer Marina Colasanti, starting from the premise that the author uses, recurrently, some symbols that refer to this theme in herwork. In this way, they can be analyzed,and their meaning can be unveiled from the studies of the imaginary, allowing a reading that goes beyond what is expressed in the wonderful story, that deepens the understanding on the subject without often touching the word death, only interweaving the symbolic images in the text. In order to do so, we examine the author's wonderful stories, especially in the work titled Mais de 100 histórias maravilhosas, and we identify, among kings, princesses, kingdoms, forests and various animals, images that lead to an out come that refers to death in the most distinct contexts related to homicide, suicide, the desire to die, the desire of the death of the other to feel free, the mourning overcome and aging. This research is mostly based on the theoretical assumptions of Gilbert Durand's figurative structuralism, also countingon the contributions of Gaston Bachelard. Still, we count on the theoretical contribution of Ana Maria Machado, Bruno Bettelheim, Ligia Cademartori, Marieta Cunha, Nelly Novaes Coelho and Regina Zilberman, who helped us to draw up considerations on children's and youth literature, in which the wonderful short stories chosen for analysis are set. Methodologically, this is a bibliographical research, based on a prism that dialogues with the figurative structuralism and phenomenology without disregarding the notes of psychobiophysics, philosophy, some religions(such as the Christianity,the Buddhism,the Hinduism, the Jainism and the Spiritism), anthropology and psychology. The results of this investigative and analytical process point to the organization of 10 short stories of the book Mais de 100 histórias maravilhosas, which, symbolically, have the death of one or more characters as outcome, taking into account the type of death reflected in history, however, to develop a total synthesis of the author's work, but trying to demonstrate a glance at the imaginary of death.