Educação e literatura : experiências poéticas de ler e escutar narrativas literárias.

Abstract

This dissertation is a philosophical study in phenomenology of language that took place in the town of Chapadinha, located in the interior of Maranhão. The interest in research emerged from the approximation of the poetic gesture of literature with the act of philosophizing, of relearning to look at the world in action operating in language. The poetic image raised in the action of narrating literary stories in childhood is inspiration to pursue the study around the educational dimension of literature. The problematization occurred in the experience and perception that the arts and philosophy are seen as uninteresting areas by the majority of students in the schools in which this study began. Thus, the question arises: what is there to think and know about the phenomenon of literary reading in the Basic Education school? Thus, the study was intended to study the poetic gesture in vocalized and written language from the description of experiences with reading literary texts. In this intention, the methodology took place in a qualitative perspective in order not to make universal or generalist surveys, but a description of the singularities experienced in the action of reading and listening to literary narratives. Four meetings were organized in October 2020 with children aged eight and ten years old. These moments of experiences with reading in dialogue with Paul Zumthor, Tzvetan Todorov and Gaston Bachelard, allowed us to consider that the encounter between literature and education can be thought of in a close relationship with the narrated world as the presence of the body located in the world. In conclusion, this research constituted a path of resistance to literary reading at school as a superfluous action, in which there is no delay in reading, there is no patience, and there is no listening. The poetic gesture is an invitation to thought, existential reflection, the presence of the body and the production of meanings.