A atividade artística em "A cigarra e as formigas"

Abstract

This research intends to identify the discourses on the artistic activity in the verbo-visual composition of the fable The Cicada and the Ants , by Monteiro Lobato and its illustrators, recouping, from the Brazilian version, the versions of Aesop and La Fontaine, in order to establish an interdiscursive relation among them. During the process of survey and selection of the corpora, we took into consideration, among other factors, the diversity in the spheres of production and circulation of the variants of this same fable, as well as their intertextual relation. Our research is divided in three stages. We started by surveying the history of that artistic activity, based upon concepts of act/activity, genre of discourse and genre of activity. In the following stage, we discussed the characterisation of the fable as a discursive practice for the construction of the proposed theme and, finally, we analyzed the discursive verbo-visual materiality of Lobato, La Fontaine and Aesop s texts in order to, then, establish the dialogical relations among them. At the end of this research, the study concerning the representation of the artistic activity in the fable The Cicada and the Ants shows its relevance in the measure it makes possible not only the rescue of those memory and identity of the Brazilians of the first half of the 20th Century but also points ways to the understanding of other social, historical, cultural values represented in this fable, although not considered in this project