Agency, telicity and controlling force : a social-cognitive approach to the supernatural in Milagre chué ("A Teeny-Weenie Miracle"), by João Antonio

Vol.41,No.1(2020)

Fábio Lucas Pierini Ana Cláudia Paschoal

https://doi.org/10.5817/ERB2020-1-14

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/142582

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Abstract
The social-cognitive approach of the fantastic narrative (or presenting supernatural elements in general) aims to understand the reasons that allow the construction of meaning in a narrative fiction that, although realistic, presents unverifiable and irreproducible events in the referential reality, guided by the Natural Sciences. Preliminary studies (Pierini 2017) allow us to affirm that the fantastic, for example, is a narrative genre that consolidates in the nineteenth century in reaction to the accelerated disappearance of European society hitherto based on forged relations during the Neolithic period. This reaction has occurred through fiction narratives that present supernatural events in a world where they should not occur from a narrative style that appropriates both investigative reporting and scientific reports, surreptitiously telling to the reader that the supernatural world still exists, but in a disguised way. In Miracle Chué ("A teennie-winnie miracle"), by João Antonio, we find as evidence of this structure the cognitive concepts of agency, teleology and controlling force, even this narrative permits mostly an allegoric reading.

Keywords:
social-cognitive literary approach; João Antonio; Milagre chué; supernatural

Pages:
217–233
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