Primitivist Aesthetic for Identifying Child's Referential Problems: launching a new narratological methodology based on Monteiro Lobato's works

Danilo Márcio, Mota Varela, Clóvis Reis, Danilo Márcio, Mota Varela
unpublished
Child's narratives have been studied on several perspectives, but hardly ever on that which considers children's right for acquiring suitable texts oriented to their own conceptualization process. Children's intuitive age group has been revised on the pragmatic perspective, and then based on two Monteiro Lobato's texts for identifying children's referential problems in both audiovisual and literary texts. Thus, this work consists of a new narratological methodology that combined four
more » ... frameworks of analyses: the theory of magic realism, the mythological hero's journey (MHJ) structure, the social functions of emotions, and the pragmatic relations among children's magic concepts, which proved being efficient for identifying children's referential problems in artistic texts.
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