Literature teaching in Brazil: an approach to the high school curriculum

Abstract

This text discusses some aspects addressed in Literature Teaching in Brazil and points out some ways of how literature should be worked in the classroom, so that there is the understanding of the student-reader. In this sense, it is placed on the historical, social and cultural aspects that are present in the literary texts and that are requested by the teacher-mediator for understanding and taste for reading satisfactory, on the part of the student. Thus, it is based on theoretical contributions proposed by Candido (2006) who presents modes and concepts about the style as the literary text is understood, through the student's investigative view. In this sense, it elucidates about the contextualization and stylization of the text, through the mediation of the teacher. The contribution of the author Malard (1985)  reveals some reasons for learning  Literature through critical reading on the texts. The  methodology used in this text is based on bibliographical research. As for the result this study, it is concluded that the best way to work the literary texts for the understanding and taste for the student's reading is by the individualization of the reader, in the classroom, with analysis, criticism, adequacy, intervention and contextualization expressed by the mediator teacher.