Entre novas e velhas distopias: admirável livro novo

Abstract

This dissertation presents the results of a bibliographic and exploratory research, with the main focus is the work with best-sellers and literature teaching in a school of Cornélio Procópio-PR. The main research topics are: mass literature, dystopia, technology and literature teaching. These issues have a theoretical research that underlies them and which is the foundation for the elaboration of activities presented, substantiate mainly on texts of Adorno; Horkheimer (2009), Candido (2002), Cosson (2012), Clayes (2013) and Eco (2011). The question that orients is, in which way guided reading of mass literature, appreciated and known by the students, could contribute to the formation of classical literature readers. Thus, the main aim of this work is to form readers of proposal literature (ECO, 2011). This text versa, therefore, on the website and fan page built Brave New book as an educational product, of the activities undertaken and applied during the stage of the Master program, used as the main corpus the best-seller The Hunger Games of Susanne Collins and The Dystopia 1984 of George Orwell. So, the data collected shows the importance of a teaching of literature that starts of reads chosen and performed by the students, showing possibilities of an effective training readers.