Palavra e imagem: uma leitura de Marginal à Esquerda, de Angela Lago

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the existing relations between word and image in the picture book, taking into consideration the importance of image reading as an indispensable resource for the formation of young readers. The work starts from the assumption that education for the image it is necessary, because it is a tool that contributes to win the younger ones interest, stimulating their creativity, imagination, waking them to reading and thus broadening their expectations horizons. This work shows that analytical methods of text and image relation in the hybrid book help in the apprehension of different meanings raised by itself. For this work corpus, it was chosen the title Marginal à esquerda, by Ângela Lago, and for the analysis, the appreciation categories text and image, by Nicolajeva and Scott (2011), as well as the illustration reading criteria proposed by Camargo (1995), Oliveira (2008) and Linden (2011). The approach begins with reflections on youth literature, emphasizing its particularities as well as their target audience, the young reader. Then, elements used for reading the image are presented, and in turn, how they relate with the word. For the implementation of these aspects to the research corpus, the criteria considered most relevant in the selected work were chosen. From this perspective, the essay proposal shows that the above criteria facilitate the comprehension of the different languages, collaborating with the reader in the sense that he understands the meaning they seek to represent.