Oscar Wilde para crianças: estrutura narrativa e os conteúdos simbólicos nos contos ''O príncipe feliz'', ''O amigo devotado" e "O foguete notável"

Abstract

This work aims at analyzing the production of the Irish writer Oscar Fingal O´Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) for children and adolescents, using three of the tales, “The Happy Prince”, “The Devoted Friend” and “The Remarkable Rocket”, in Oscar Wilde Stories for Children (2000) and published for the first time in 1888, in the book The Happy Prince and Other Tales. The analysis focus on the common elements between traditional fairy tales and Oscar Wilde´s tales for children, the innovative elements Oscar Wilde presents and the latent subjects that could be aroused during the reading and what types of reflections and questionings the text suggests. The choice of the study object is justified by the interest in pointing out the ruptures Oscar Wilde brings in his work, not only with the existing system at the Victorian time, but with the conventional structure and language of fairy tales. The work of Vladimir Propp (1984), that described the magic tales from the study of the pieces constituting the tale and from the relation between the pieces and from the pieces with the whole, was used as a theoretical basis for this work. The studies of Coelho (1987, 2000, 2010), Corso (2006), Jauss (1994, 2002), Bettelheim (2007), among others were used to fundament this work in regards of youth literature and fairy tales. The result of the analysis shows a relation between traditional fairy tales and Oscar Wilde´s tales, highlighting the innovations his work grants to this literary genre and the possible interpretations the characters and their roles suggest.