VISUAL NARRATIVE: THE LANDSCAPE ESTHETIC AND LITERARY OF PICTUREBOOK

Abstract

In this text, the children's literature book is considered as an object of materialization of language, which triggers literary aesthetic experiences in readers. In the same way as the picture book, the picture book brings in itself the expression a language in illustrated utterances, composing a visual narrative, which allows the reader to interact with the non-verbal text to produce meanings. The image provokes the gaze and stimulates the reader to move between the visual landscapes, between spaces demarcated by a subjective reading of the text. From this perspective, the objective is to reflect on the aesthetic and literary potential of the image book, based on the work "História de Amor", by the author and illustrator Regina Rennó. To this end, it is sought, through a descriptive research, with a qualitative approach, to reflect on the visual narrative marked by the enunciative-discursive approach to language, proposed by Bakhtin e Volochínov (2006), in the studies of Graça Ramos (2011), Palo (2011), Arizpe and Styles (2004) on the reading of images, visual narrative, visual literacy, of Duchak (2014) on visual literacy, with a finishing touch of Annie Rouxel (2013, 2018) about subjective reading. The study points out that the work "Love Story" presents a certain sensitivity in the visual narrative, which allows the reader a literary aesthetic experience. Thus, the need to broaden the reflective look at the relationship between the reader and the visual narrative is highlighted, in which the reading directed by the reader-gaze provokes a literary aesthetic experience, as well as representations based on the meanings attributed.