Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaEsoteric narratives as self-help books: a semiotics perspective
On a greimasian semiotics perspective it intends to study the Brazilian best-seller reader and also the evolution of the esoteric narratives in that country. To do so, a list of yearly fiction best-sellers in Brazil is being organized, in between the years 1975 to 2006, based on the ranking of books...
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Lenguaje: | Portugués |
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Laboratório Editorial FCL-UNESP
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/casa/article/view/560 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/60098 |
| Sumario: | On a greimasian semiotics perspective it intends to study the Brazilian best-seller reader and also the evolution of the esoteric narratives in that country. To do so, a list of yearly fiction best-sellers in Brazil is being organized, in between the years 1975 to 2006, based on the ranking of books of a national coverage magazine, “Veja”, which made it possible to formulate hypothesis on the modern best-seller reader’s expectations and, most important, the gradual changing from the esoteric books to self-help books literature in the 90’s.
Keywords: Reader. Reading. Best-seller. Greimasian semiotics. Esoteric book. Self-help book. |
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