CRÔNICA LITERÁRIA NO JORNAL: HISTÓRIA, ESTRUTURA E FUNCIONAMENTO

Abstract

The present work aims to analyse the history, structure and operation of the chronicle. The starting point is the origin of this genre, how it turned throughout and the form it reached singularity as a literary genre, crating, throughout the years, representative persons who gave the chronicle its characteristic as a literary genre that has its place reserved on the press. It is considered studies that have been made by stablished writers. The study is divided in three chapters. It is also studied the structure of the literary genres: from drama to novel, from short story to chronicle. Aristóteles is the starting point to the textual organization of the genres. The study of the literary genres interests to this work because it helps to understand the chronicle as a independent genre. As the structure of the chronicle is analysed, that is characterized for its poetic expression, it is also studied the characteristic of each genre, in order to, at the end of the work, the reader knows the objective of this research. For having a particular connection between writers and the journalistic press, on the third charpter it is analysed the production of four writers from Goiás (Aidenor Aires, Brasigóis Felício, Gabriel Nascente and Luiz de Aquino) writers who publish chronicles in two daily newspapers: O Popular and Diário da Manhã. Along the analyses it is included passages of their chronicles and passages of the interviews the writers gave to the author of this work.