(730)THE COMPARATIVE METHOD IN TEACHING OF LITERARY WORKS

摘要

Reading a literary work, in this day and age, requires motivation and ability to understand, which is notalways the case when it comes to subject learners. But the reading of a literary text is provided foraesthetic enjoyment, it develops imagination, the ability to (re) develop the language, the possibility ofreaching increasingly complex senses, as well as develop the clash of different world views andknowledge of oneself and others (and of society as a whole). In this sense, the teacher should look forstrategies that lead students into taking an interest in reading.The purpose of this communication is to present literary reading paths, triggering off the desire toread, following the methodology of comparison, suggested by Adam and Heidmann (2011), under anepistemological framework that contemplates a new alliance between linguistics and literature.The comparative method is a way of preventing the closing of the text itself (and undermines selfsufficiencyof the excerpts contained in the manuals), looking for differences and similarities betweenthem, which presupposes a textual analysis of discourse, fundamental in teaching of literary works, asit enables one to find out what effectively leads to certain senses and effects.