Literatura e vestibular: discursos cruzados

Abstract

This paper reflects on the relation between the student/reader and the literary text. Reading is regarded as a practice determined by coercions from the institution that elaborates the university entrance exam and applied to an evaluative / selective instance of control. Thus, the focus of this study is on the relation between literature and the university entrance exam, observing in what measure the literary genre fulfills its function within the pedagogic discourse, which is marked by principles of control and subjection.