A reading agenda in Twelve Brazilian legends, by Clarice Lispector: the time of the calends in popular narratives
Twelve Brazilian legends, Clarice Lispector, Popular Culture, Children's Literature, Time
This research takes the work Twelve Brazilian legends, by Clarice Lispector, to address the relationship between children's literature and Brazilian popular culture. The objective is to show that the themes and contents present in the verbal collection of popular traditions, through playful language, through the strength of the symbolic, were assimilated into children's literature in a harmonious way. In the course of the research, always taking Twelve Brazilian Legends as a reference, some specific aspects of children's literature, the most present literary genres in children's literature and the functioning of time in popular narratives are also discussed. In the theoretical contribution of the research, there are critics and theorists of the literature, which can be mentioned: authors as Jolles (1976), Cadermatori (1987), Abramovich (2006), Candido (2004), Benjamin (1993), Bettelheim (2007), Cascudo (1978), Gotlib (2009), Propp (2010), Lajolo e Zilberman (1999), Coelho (2002). Up to this point of the research, it can be said that, as a partial conclusion, the symbolic material present in popular culture increases its importance, being definitive for its assimilation with the collection of children's works.