Poe: do conto à dramaturgia em movimento semiótico

Abstract

It cannot be denied that man is a being of speech, because it is through him that he shapes his life and sense his existence. In this sense, it is worth mentioning that every language is organized by a system of signs, be it verbal, visual, oral, audible, gestural, or any other, and semiotics, as a general science of signs, it is necessary to investigate how these signs are related and they organize themselves as a semiotic system in the multiple manifestations of languages. Faced with the various possibilities of using language, the literary text, which makes particular use of verbal language, materialized in different formats, or genres, such as lyrical, dramatic and narrative, its process of construction of meanings, with effect also is configured in a peculiar way. Based on this premise, this research seeks to bring to light the semiosis process engendered in the genre short story called Edgar Allan Poe's heaped barrel. Within this process, the focus is on reflecting on the potential of constructing meanings based on the structure of the short story that proved to be powerful enough to promote the transcreation of one genre within the semiotic system of literature (story) to another (dramaturgy). In order to give birth to this semiotic movement, we opted for a methodological path of bibliographic review that was anchored in the theoretical conceptions arising from semiotic theory. Thus, the discussions are mainly subsidized by Pierce, Eco, Barthes, Kristeva, Cortázar, Poe, Maingueneau, Plaza, and Campos