ATAÍDE, M. B. C.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5853879361321173; ATÁIDE, Maria Betânia da Costa.
Resumo:
In this dissertation, we analyze the short stories "Encounters on the Peninsula", by Milton
Hatoum, "The Secret Cause" and "Rooster's Mass", by Machado de Assis. We chose these
narratives as the object of study of our work and carried out a reading action with the 2nd year
high school class of the Escola Cidadã Integral Professora Maria Cecília de Castro, in Alcantil-
PB. Our experience with literary reading happened in the emergency remote modality, due to
the context of the pandemic period, which resulted in numerous issues and difficulties for our
performance in the classroom as research teachers. Besides the reading action, we paid attention
to a bibliographic review and constructed a reflective reading of the aforementioned short
stories in order to methodologically develop the following questions: 1) What marks from
Machado de Assis' texts can we verify in the short story "Encounters on the Peninsula", by
Milton Hatoum? With which texts by Machado de Assis does the above mentioned tale most
often dialogue? From these questions, we obtained the following general objective: To
investigate the reception of 2nd grade students through comparative readings between the texts
"Encounters in the Peninsula", by Hatoum, "The Secret Cause" and "Rooster's Mass", by
Machado de Assis. Concerning the specific objectives: a) To identify in Hatoum's short story
"Encounters in the Peninsula" other texts by Machado de Assis; b) To know and analyze the
texts by Machado de Assis present in Hatoum's short story; c) To analyze and understand Milton
Hatoum's short story from the intertextual relations that it incorporates from the Machado de
Assis texts. As for the methodology used, we followed the guidelines of Rildo Cosson (2016)
with the expanded sequence. Since it is a bibliographical research we used the theorists related
to the objectives of the proposed study, such as: Bakhtin (2016) about dialogue, dialogism;
Carvalhal (2004) about Comparative Literature; Aguiar and Bordini (1988) regarding the
receptional method; Kristeva apud Genette (2006) about intertextuality; Cortázar (1993),
Gouveia (2011), Bosi (1997) and Gotlib (2006) for the concept of the short story genre;
Guimarães and Batista (2012) about the conceptions of reading; among others. The corpus of
analysis was composed of three summaries of the aforementioned short stories and a
comparative reading; observations of two classes; a survey questionnaire; classes using the
Google Meet platform and images printed during the reading action.
