Literary literacy: the literature reader construction at paradigm’s transition times

Abstract

This text is a chapter of our Master Thesis and discusses from the theoretical point of view that literature’s images of readers are promoted by some works which are concerned by literary literacy’s concept. These works have as aim to verify if they consider the real reader – whom is actually in elementary classrooms -, or the ideal reader – idealized by theoretical studies which are related to this type of reader -. The research is concerned into literature pedagogy field and it considers the emergent thought of complexity paradigm as well as transdisciplinarity. However, enlighten by the view of literary specificities, we bring to discussion writers from Aesthetics, Poetry and Literary Theory fields. The results show that most of the works promote the picture of ideal reader and for this reason, we classified them as Cartesian literary literacy; however, few of these works are related to complexity and transdisciplinarity studies, which led us to call them as complex literary literacy.