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Formation of readers, Aesthetics of reception, juvenile literature
The presente study had as objective to analyze the literary reception of two works aimed at juvenile audience, “O flautista de Hamelin (1993)” by the english poet Robert Browning and O flautista misterioso e os ratos de Hamelin (2006) by the brazilian Braulio Tavares. To this end, face-to-face meetings were held with a group of students from the 9th grade of elementary school at the State School “João Catarino de Souza”, in the city of Barra do Bugres, in the state of Mato Grosso. In the first moment, we applied a socioeconomic and cultural questionnaire to the students, in order to know our audience and observe if they had the habit of reading outside the school environment, how often they read, what types of books they liked and if they knew literature string, as it is one of our objects of study. Our goal was to provide to the students the contact with different literary texts and to verify in what extent the presented works meet, question, break and extend the horizons of student’s expectations, for this reason, the proposed rereadings were chosen based on the utilitarian and emancipatory discourse contained in each one of them. We used the reception method, proposed by the authors Maria da Glória Bordini and Vera Teixeira Aguiar (1988; 2018) supported by the studies of Hans Robert Jauss (1994) on the aesthetics of reception and Wolfgang Iser (1976;1996) which illustrates the theory of the effect . We also base our studies on the theory of the critic Antonio Candido (1972; 2000; 2006, 1999), Regina Zilberman (2007; 2015; 2012; 1999), Marisa Lajolo (2007; 1988), Edmir Perroti (1986), Aroldo Jose Abreu Pinto (2003) and other theorists who dialogue about the formation of readers in school and about the marketing character that juvenile literature has assumed since its formation. The research is relevant, as literature is a powerful instrument of humanization of individuals, as it makes us reflect on the world and on our fellow man, therefore it cannot be restricted to pedagogical activity, but rather with the intention of emancipating readers to become aware of and critical of the world that surrounds them.