Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-15T13:31:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carlos Magno Capa.pdf: 502516 bytes, checksum: 80db11ec4bdef98ee9d16dfe6747e75c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-22 / This research have of principal theme the study of the comic-picaresque cycle in the cordel literature (string literature), based in the four leaflets that narrate the achievements of Maria Besta Sabida, of the cordel poet rooted in Feira de Santana, Ant?nio Alves da Silva, discussed under the interdisciplinary approach, involving literary theory, the aesthetics of laughable and studies popular culture. The specific objective of this work of research is: a)chart to the biographical profile of Ant?nio Alves da Silva; b) analyze to the nature of popular comicality, especially taking into account its aesthetic formatively and its resources linguistic-literary expression and c) exam to the specifically picaresque women, with cronotopo particularly adapted to the northeastern Brazilian reality. The position taken in this dissertation, in that respect, took the view that Maria Besta Sabida is a legitimate Brazilian picaresque, in a line of continuity of the Iberian matrix picaresque, of the centuries XVI and XVII. As appendix, will be presented a (new) of all works of AAS, catalogued the second thematic classification of Ariano Suassuna. / Esta pesquisa tem como tema principal o estudo do ciclo c?mico-picaresco na Literatura de Cordel, tomando-se como base os quatro folhetos que narram as proezas de Maria Besta Sabida, do cordelista radicado em Feira de Santana, Ant?nio Alves da Silva, analisado sob o enfoque interdisciplinar, envolvendo a teoria liter?ria, a est?tica do ris?vel e os estudos da cultura popular. O objetivo espec?fico deste trabalho de pesquisa ?: a) tra?ar o perfil biogr?fico de Ant?nio Alves da Silva; b) analisar a natureza da comicidade popular, sobretudo levando?se em conta sua formatividade est?tica e seus recursos de express?o ling??stico-liter?rios e c) examinar a especificidade da picaresca feminina e seu cronotopo particularmente afeito ? realidade nordestina brasileira. A posi??o tomada, nesta disserta??o, a esse respeito, assume o ponto de vista de que Maria Besta Sabida ? uma leg?tima p?cara brasileira, numa linha de continuidade da picaresca matricial ib?rica, dos s?culos XVI e XVII. Como ap?ndice, apresenta-se uma rela??o (in?dita) de todas as obras de AAS, catalogadas segundo classifica??o tem?tica de Ariano Suassuna.