Do canone literario ás provas de vestibular : canonização e escolarização da literatura / The process of literary canon formation : the scholar literature

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2008

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Much has been debated in the last few years regarding the directions taken by literature teaching of children and adolescents. Among other aspects, these discussions have been characterized by a belief in the failure of the insertion of literature in the classroom. Even though it is agreed that literary reading should be encouraged in schools, it seldom takes place in the way it is hoped or wished for. In this context, the position in favor of the reading of canonic works is also a consensus among scholars and teachers, and from this perspective, pre-college preparatory reading lists acquire particular importance as a means of literary schooling. This dissertation is inserted within this context; it aims at analyzing the way in which pre-college examination lists promote new canonic constructions(or the new way of presenting the literary canon) and transform themselves in curricula guidelines, which determine what is to be read, and how it is going to be read, including the treatment given to the literary object in schools, dividing space with didactic material in general, the main instrument for the insertion of literary teaching in schools, and which is responsible for a reconfiguration of literary discourse, which happens through the promotion of adidactization of this knowledge, as it were. Thus, reading lists dialogue with critic-historiographic discourse, which are used to give legitimation to choices made and with didactic-pedagogical discourse (through didactic textbooks). This way, they allow for a new canonization process, which silence critic-historiographic discourse and generates an erasure of didactic discourse. Given the importance they acquire in this context, reading lists lead to disabling effects for the maintenance of the canon itself and for the teaching of literature that by far surpass the usual justification that with such lists "students will read more"

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literature canone literatura - estudo e ensino canon literacy vestibular escolarização letramento

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