Children’s Picturebook as Polyphonic Cultural Object
Mariana Parreira Lara do Amaral,
Hilda Aparecida Linhares da Silva,
Mônica Correia Baptista
Abstract:The aim of the present article is to rebuild picturebooks’ identity as polyphonic cultural objects based on a brief historical trajectory. Dialogue established between text and reader in contemporary picturebook’s production is broadened by the presence of different semiosis that allow multiple voices to be heard, since they act as meaning enhancers. The Bakhtinian concept of polyphony is herein held at the picturebook reflections scope to set contrast in children’s literature, which has a moralizing nature an… Show more
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