Lire et éprouver le littéraire : la compréhension comme événement

Abstract

Reading and assessing literary characteristics : understanding considered as an event. Pierre Sève, IUFM de Clermont-Ferrand. Rather than using a priori ideas on literature as a starting point, we think it preferable to attempt to listen to what children can teach us when they are reading literary works. Foursing on three processes, we wish to demonstrate how young children have been able to play a part in the practice of interprétation, and how, in doing this, they have built up the notions which are usually used to describe the literary area. We would like to set up our thesis using their experience as a basis : teaching literary characteristics is teaching how to interprate. Experiencing such an understanding enables us to consider in a different light and retrospectively the elaborated tools as concepts which form the basis of literature.