Realidade e Piauí: o jornalismo literário e o narrador em revista

Abstract

This study discusses literary journalism, especially that published in two magazines that practice this aspect: Realidade (1966-1976) and piauí (in circulation since 2006). The work points out the differences and similarities between the textual aesthetics used by publications in their different periods, based on the analysis of the narrative focus in narrative reports. This aspect has its investigation permeated by technological and cultural transformations that interfere in the narrators’ modes of representation in their respective times. The main objective of this research is to answer how the magazines Realidade and piauí use the narrative focus in cover stories, in their respective times, and how transformations of technological base, and their impacts, interfere in the aesthetics of the text practiced today in piauí. In its theoretical basis, the text reflects on the origins of journalism and its intimate relationship with modernity, focusing on Brazilian particularities in the development of this process. From this, one arrives at the context and the influences that influenced the creation of the study’s target publications. The dissertation deepens, then, the relations between journalism and literature, objectivity and subjectivity, which led to the context of the emergence of new journalism, providing a basis for the analysis of the clipping of the object of study.