Literary literacy, literature and readers’ formation: a thematic study

Abstract

In this text, with a qualitative and descriptive approach, the aim is to present a study on literary literacy and about the importance of literature in the readers’ formation. This is a bibliographic research conducted for the theoretical foundation of the first author’s master’s dissertation. Organized into two main sections, initially, the text encompasses conceptualizations and aspects related to literature and literary reading. In the second section, literary literacy is contextualized, linked to human formation, and the aesthetic experience is examined, seen as an essential source for fostering a taste for reading and shaping the literary reader. It is concluded that the critical formation of the reader emerges from the space given to literary reading in the school context, in a movement of sensitization, contemplation, and reflection on literary works.