Me, you, he, she, we and the narrator: conversations about literature

Authors

• Vanderléia Müller Schons Universidade Feevale https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-6951
• Lovani Volmer Universidade Feevale https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3458-1005
• Rosemari Lorenz Martins Universidade Feevale https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-5508

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v47i90.17558

Keywords:

Reading, Narrator, Reader development

Abstract

This study is part of the field of literary reading and intends to investigate the role of the narrator as a symbolic mediator of reading, and, thus, also responsible for either approximating or distancing the reader from a novel. In relation to this, literature is seen as a way to instrumentalize readers into becoming more critical, growing to be authors conscient of the reflections necessary to freely and critically make decisions in the context they are inserted in. Grounded on theoretical support from scholars of literary reading, of narrative, of the narrator and of mediation, we analyzed the book Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods, by Rick Riordan, and presented a mediated reading project carried out with teenagers aged 11 to 13, in a community school from Rio Grande do Sul. Among the obtained results, the importance of the process described in the study for the development of the students’ reader profiles, which contributes to teaching practices and the selection of narratives that pertain to each proposal, are highlighted.

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