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Reading mediators; Reception Aesthetics; young adult literature; reading literature; horizons of expectations.
This doctoral thesis seeks to compare the views of some reading mediators, since they are the ones responsible for presenting literary works in the school environment. The research arose from the desire to observe how the reading of literature has been discussed within the school environment and how Portuguese Language teachers, reading mediators, have seen and become involved with aesthetically elaborated works, that is, emancipating works and marketable works, also called mass literature. Through the Reception Method, described by Aguiar and Bordini (1988), based on the Reception Aesthetics, which was initially presented by Jauss (2003) and Iser (1996, 1999), we entered the school environment and had direct contact with nineteen mediators whom we invited to be part of the research. From this contact it was possible to determine the horizon of expectations of these mediators and after offering them two works for reading, "O abraço" by Lygia Bojunga and "Fale!" by Laurie Halse Anderson, with the aim of verifying the reception of these works and whether they met, broke, questioned and expanded their horizons of expectations. As a theoretical support, we rely on the following authors: Candido (1972, 2011a, 2011b, 2011c, 2013a, 2013b); Jauss (2003); Adorno (S/D); Lima (2001); Eco (1993, 2013a, 2013b); Campos (2010); Iser (1996, 1999); Caldas (2000); Sodré (1985); Rudiger (1996); Magnani (1997, 2011); Bordini and Aguiar (1988); Abreu (1999); Lajolo and Zilberman (1991a, 1991b, 2019); Zilberman (1986, 1991, 2004), among others. The result of the research was surprising, because by analyzing the reception of the works we were able to visualize the historical relationship that the mediating teacher has with the book, the barriers built due to social devaluation, the gaps left by academic training, the requirements on the part of the documents of the Government of Mato Grosso that guide the action in the classroom, and that at the same time distance the mediator from literary works, and perceive how this set of actions dulled the perception that they should have to expand their horizons of expectations.