Ler literatura na idade dos porquês: a importância da investigação em literatura para a infância e juventude a partir dos estudos literários

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Cláudia Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2021.11204

We analyse cases of central and canonical authors of contemporary Portuguese literature who, occasionally and sporadically, wrote texts given to read or purposefully addressed to children and young readers: Vergílio Ferreira, José Saramago and António Lobo Antunes. It is intended to highlight the importance of research in the field of studies of this literary subsystem, from the perspective that defines literature as a system, designed by Itamar Even-Zohar. If the books in this subsystem are characterized by multimodality, or the use of different languages in addition to the verbal one, which often has minimal occupation of the pages, the approach based on literary studies cannot, in the opinion that will be argued, not even fail to relate its specificity of analysis and interpretation with these other forms of aesthetic communication, nor to let their methodologies of creation and reading give second place to the verbal art that, without controversy, defines or goes on defining what literature is.