Das origens à atualidade,da teoria às crenças docentes: o que é literatura?

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss and reflect on how to conceptualize the literature, searching the literary theories in textbooks and in the speeches of faculty definitions used for the same. Understanding that, depending on the weather, the space in which we speak to see how literature is not the same ratings have been worked since Aristotle in ancient Greece up to the present day; sometimes conceiving literature as word art, mimeses, Aristotelian concepts, sometimes seeking elements that could select a work as belonging to literature, literariness, at other times focusing on the ideology and seeing the canons the answer to that question. We also analyzed textbooks, facing the first year of high school, whose concepts are summarized Aristotle's poetics and a blurring and synthesis of something they can not explain. Finally, we have the concepts used by teachers in their classrooms, definitions, in many cases, inconsistent and that demonstrate a lack of familiarity with the theories that discuss the issue and a huge reliance on manuals of literature, and which are often interpreted confusedly by teachers. We look at three distinct spaces the answer to the question what is literature and try to understand where the concepts were taken brought to the classroom.