Intelectuais e o orgulho de ser leitor: uma análise de discursos sobre a leitura

Abstract

This final paper, done under guidance of professor Luzmara Curcino, alongside the Laboratory of Reading Studies (LIRE-CNPq/UFSCar), and in line with the general objective of the current researches of said group, namely, to analyze discourses about reading circulating in our society, is inscribed in the current project of the guiding professor, titled “Proud readers, ashamed readers: emotions in discourses about reading” and dedicated to the analysis of the depictions of the pride or shame of being or not being a reader. In the final paper research, the objective is to analyze statements about reading collected during the execution of my unpaid mandatory curricular internship in UFSCar, under supervision of professor Luzmara Curcino, in the second semester of 2022 and first semester of 2023. These statements about the practice of reading come from texts specifically published in the newspaper O Globo, in the period between 2000 and 2010, that have the common characteristic of being samples of ways to express “pride” in being a reader by intellectuals, national or foreigners. Thus, the goal of this work is to describe, from the perspective of Discourse Analysis, what was said and how that was materialized in these statements, in order to contribute to the discursive studies about prestige cultural practices in Brazil, such as reading, and better comprehend the impact of these discourses about this practice and the representation of these subjects who exercise it and enjoy the symbolic benefits of this exercise, in their condition as intellectuals. Beyond the theoretical basis of the Discourse Analysis, this work was done based on principles of the Cultural History of Reading and the History of Emotions.