Literature and the Textbook: an analysis of intermedia relations

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2015v20n2p42

This paper analyzes from the perspective of interart studies, which relations are established between literature and other artistic languages in the context of school education, performing the analysis of chapters that approach the literature content and makes up the portuguese textbooks. It was used document analysis methodology. It was aimed at first, to set the bias of study of these relationships from theoretical assumptions related to intermediality, a search field, relatively new, which is part of interart studies. Soon after it accomplished the analsis of samples of chaptters of two textbooks for high school, trying to identify in these works which are the relations set  between the instances of verbal and nonverbal languages and other media. The manual analysed was acquired by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Education, through the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático – PNLD – and distributed to public schools across the country. Therefore follows a series of technical and educational standards, which are listed in the summons letter for the application in the evaluation process of this program; among these teaching standards is found the guidance for the favoring of the student coexistence with different language representations and for a interdisciplinary and global approach of the contents and of the skills covered by the manuals. As results it can be mentioned that there is a search by the authors of these manuals to comply with these guidelines, however, these attempts lack of improvement.