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Marcela Coladello Ferro
Doutoramento em Estudos da Infância - Universidade do Minho
Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4911-6648
Biography
Sara Reis da Silva
Instituto de Educação - Universidade do Minho
Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0041-728X
Biography
Maria Helena Magalhães
Doutoramento em Estudos da Infância - Universidade do Minho
Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6974-9405
Biography
No 8 (2021), Articles, pages 1-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/elos.8.7975
Submitted: 29-09-2021 Accepted: 08-11-2021 Published: 30-12-2021
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Abstract

In this study, we aim at problematize the place and relevance of the History of Literature in the context of training reading mediators, as well as in the quality of their practices. From a generic approach to the literary work of António Torrado (1939-2021), followed by an analytical reference to some of his narrative texts that make up the wide universe of retextualizations, revisitations or rewritings of the traditional oral literary heritage for children, conclude on the relevance of the knowledge of the History of Literature for the improvement of reading mediation practices undertaken by truly capable mediators, that is, mediators whose reader intertext is also diachronically rich and filled with several literary references in terms of date or publishing period, authorship, literary mode or genre, style, among others.