Reading and writing workshop inspired on literature, cinema and fantastic

Abstract

Nowadays, non-verbal language has been gaining space and being explored for its pedagogical character in classrooms. In this article, it is possible to observe that whereas filmic language uses resources such as sound and image, literary language induces the readers to imagine what goes beyond words from their personal experiences. In this sense, a workshop on reading and writing processes was conducted in an undergraduate program of English and literature, based on excerpts of the written version (LOWRY, 2014) and on the filmic version (NOYCE, 2014) of The Giver (1983). The workshop aimed to promote interaction and reflection about the reading of word senses in diferente contexts and supports, as well as encouraging spontaneous creative writing, presenting the multiple views of students and placing them as subjects in the process. As an instigating factor, the ficcional work used had some characteristics of the fantastic. The article finds the theoretical basis for interaction and contextualization in Bakhtin, Garcez, Scnheuwly, Rodrigues; Cerutti-Rizatti and Kleiman, the concept of fantastic in Todorov and the relation among the filmic and literary works in Bourdieu, Fabris, and Duarte.