Parody and theatrical performance in the retextualization of Machado de Assis’ short stories, a project for high school classes
retextualization; discourse tradition (TD); short stories; parodies; continuum of orality and scripturality.
This study investigates the importance of approaching writing in the classroom in a way that arouses students’ interest and involvement, starting from the problem of reading and writing difficulties among students in the 2nd year of high school at Escola Estadual Professor Anísio Teixeira, in Natal-RN. The proposal for this project arose from the observation that students have difficulties in writing, also demonstrating a lack of interest in reading and textual production activities. Thus, the general objective of this study is to contribute to the written and oral mastery of short story and parody genres by students in the 2nd year of high school at Escola Estadual Professor Anísio Teixeira. To this end, we developed a didactic sequence with activities for retextualizing Machado de Assis’ short stories, which explore discursive traditions in the continuum of orality and writing. The research will take place at the Professor Anísio Teixeira State School, in Natal-RN. The theoretical basis of this study was based on authors such as Coseriu (1992; 2007) who defend the idea of three linguistic levels and the autonomy of texts; Koch and Oesterreicher (2007) contribute with the proposal of analyzing the ten parameters that determine the variations of oral and written discourses; Kabatek (2006) offers the concept of discursive traditions, important for analyzing the discursive traditions that will be used by students. Reinhardt (2017), Oesterreicher (2007), Quesada (2011) contribute with information on performance and mimesis of orality in theatrical texts. Finally, the process of retextualization of texts is based on the studies of Marcuschi (2010). In this research, data analysis will be based on students’ productions throughout the texts produced in the didactic sequence with a class of 2nd grade high school students. This pedagogical material will be the outstanding product of our research. The data collection and analysis process will occur in two main stages: the first consists of analyzing the students’ initial productions, proposed in the first module; the second focuses on analyzing the final productions, proposed in the fourth module. The data obtained in each stage will allow us to observe the impact of the sequence on writing, interpretation, and narrative organization skills, as well as serve as a basis for analyzing the discursive traditions used by students in their initial and final productions.