Entre arte e técnica: uma proposta metodológica para a preparação de textos literários narrativos

Abstract

This research presents a study on the conception of literary writing and text editing which objective is to propose a methodology for copydesk of literary narratives. In our bibliographic investigation, we found that it is still a new subject in the academic field, lacking research and also a methodology that could be a guide for editing literary texts, since there is still no manual entirely dedicated to it. The presentation of our bibliographic survey is divided into two parts: the first one discusses the issues of the plot of fictional narrative and the other one brings an exposition about certain stylistic elements in literary narratives. Among the authors studied, we highlight David Madden, with the book Revising Fiction: a handbook for writers, which offers some guidelines about revising narrative manuscripts to fiction writers. Finally, we present our methodological proposal as a conclusion, in order to systematize the results of the bibliographic studying and adapt it in a viable way to apply in copydesk, as we separate in plot and style criteria to be observed by the editor and indicate how could be possible to proceed.