CENAS CURITIBANAS: CRÔNICAS DA CIDADE EM O OLHO DA RUA

Abstract

The research’s scope is to study the chronic aimed at analyzing the productions dated of the beginning of last century, published by the city of Curitiba’s newsletter Olho da Rua. Among the various sections devoted to the chronic, texts were selected under the "Crônica da Rua" section. The main focus turned to the theme of urbanization of Curitiba, in particular the improvement projects of the city's downtown streets and cultural attractions, the main novelty the cinema. In this way, it is tried to verify the role of chronicler as an observer of his time fixing his look to the reality and takes away the material to erect their contribution through the daily record. In order to achieve this proposal it is followed a predefined theoretical route, which served as guidance for the analytical treatment of the corpus. Therefore, begins with fast incursion by Cultural Studies, foreseeing to recognizing the contributions of its principles to the study of culture and literature, especially the mass of publications, like the transmitted chronicles in newspapers and peripheral magazines, that is not consecrated as a major editorial project. As a result, the chronicle will be addressed in its foundations, in order to verify their concepts, origins and definitions, as well as recognizing the fundamental aspects that make it a specific genre as it appears. On another front, dedicated to the next item to highlight the ambiguous nature of the genre in question. Thus, arise naturally the questions around the classic intersection between journalism and literature, from which the chronicle has been designed from its origins in the nineteenth century printed in Brazil. After the consolidation of this theoretical framework, it is part of the historical context, social and political publications that will be analyzed. To this end, we conducted a quick inventory of the Curitiba press, since the publication of the first journal in 1854, shortly after the advent of the enactment of the law that created the province and future of Parana State, until early 1907, with the airing of the first issue of the journal Olho da Rua. Consolidated this trend ultimately goes to working with the chronicles, aiming to highlight the records that marked the streets of Curitiba, with regard to improvement projects and urbanization, next to the cultural issues and its innovations in terms of attractive.