Narrativity and common sense: in the rhymes of the verses of cordel literature

Author(s)

Fernanda Moraes D'Olivo

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2015-08-24

Examining board members

Suzy Maria Lagazzi; Mónica Zoppi Fontana; Vanise Gomes de Medeiros; Eliana de Almeida; Silvia Regina Nunes

• Advisor: Suzy Maria Lagazzi

Abstract

How does the common sense effect work in cordel literature focusing on facts that were featured in the big media? That is the question that drives the analysis in this thesis. In order to answer that question, I needed to understand the discursivity of common sense in the way in which cordel literature produces meaning in its materiality, that is, to look at common sense as meaning effect that results from ideology. Key to this analysis was the notion of narrativity (MARIANI, 1996) as a symbolic process that puts discursive memory in motion. The corpus for this thesis includes the cordel literature works Dilma Rousseff já é presidenta da nação and A invasão do Alemão, which were chosen because they feature social issues related to politics and violence. By analyzing these pamphlets, I came to understand that common sense, as a sense effect, works as an implication which highlights the argumentation and the narrative progression in the stories, showing assertiveness and confirmation. Common sense creates an illusion of generalization, deleting the confrontation between different discursive formations and therefore silencing social contradictions (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/20214-0 - The relationship between printed media and booklets: a point to comprehend the working of common sense
• Grantee: Fernanda Moraes D Olivo
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate