O ensino de literatura no caminho da semiótica: contribuição de Diana Barros.

Abstract

Research data on the teaching of literature in the metropolitan region of Fortaleza (Brazil) are indicating an unsatisfactory result. Only 11% of the sample corresponds to the highest cognitive levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (analysis, application and evaluation). Nationally, Regina Zilberman notes that the literary text has not been considered as an object of knowledge, in a research carried out on the textbooks of the last two hundred years in Brazil. Such data call for the efforts of semioticians. A prominent example of Semiotics contribution to literary studies in Brazil are the wellknown works of Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros. In the propaedeutic field, in advanced discourse studies and in historical research on Discursive Semiotics in Latin America, Diana Barros reserves a special role for the literary text.