O FOLHETO POPULAR E AS REVISTAS ILUSTRADAS

OS CIRCUITOS DE COMUNICAÇÃO CIDADE / SERTÃO NA VIRADA DO SÉCULO XIX PARA O SÉCULO XX

Abstract

In ‘literatura de cordel’ and particularly in Leandro Gomes de Barros work, woman, seen in the popular traditional literature as fragile, ingenuous and generous, becomes malicious, frivolous and superficial. Man, is also represented according to new patterns of behavior and morality: from strong and courageous, he becomes snobbish, self-seeking, a person that doesn’t measure efforts to achieve his objectives. This representations, of wide circulation in the illustrated magazines, started to reach the ‘sertão nordestino’ with the firsts ‘folhetos’ which might have acted as channel of diffusion of a “modern sensibility” in a kind of society where the ideas circulating in the areas most cosmopolitans of the country were still then very restricted.