Sandman: Uma análise literária e sociolinguística

Abstract

The present undergraduate work takes place in the intersection between literature and Comics. This search proposes to analyze the first edition of Sandman, wrote by an American named Neil Gaiman against the concept of literature, canon, the called “high literature”, with the contribution of sociolinguistics, as well as understand the own resources of Comics in the regard to the process of producing meaning in literary reading. The search is justified by the importance inclusion of Comics, especially Sandman, by Neil Gaiman, as “high literature” in schools, especially, in searching formation of literary readers, bearing in mind the importance of literature as a trainer and as able to give young people lives perspective, especially today, inside the caos we live because of the pandemic The way to investigate this possibility will be by bibliography, focus on how Comics literature are made and how this get closer of literature reading be it entertainment or classical, or, yet, texts defined as “high literature”, by Bloom and Leyla Perrone-Moises. With regard to sociolinguistics, we have the proximity of language representation in orality, therefore another variable of methodology study in literature conception. Amongst the obtained results, there are the work's several layers of reading, nevertheless, it is still possible to read it without a greater volume of literary bagage, which makes the work have lovers within readers as well as in non-readers.