O mundo como provocação : uma poética dos elementos materiais em Calvin e Haroldo.

Abstract

This dissertation analyses the recurring images in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson, more specifically, the images referring to the relations child x substance, through the presence of elements earth, water, air and fire, in the phenomenological perspective of Gaston Bachelard. We select ten comic strips related to each material elements and we investigated in what extend the images on them have found have confluences with Bachelard’s assumptions about material imagination. We articulated the selected images in the strip to the complex relationship between thought, emotion and feelings, with theoretical corpus Bachelard’s works, beyond references of biology, neuroscience and literary criticism as well as theories about comics.