Dos bosques encantados para o mundo contemporâneo: a permanência dos contos de fadas entre os jovens leitores.

Abstract

This education master’s research aimed to discuss what young readers have to say about fairy tales in order to understand the continuity of these stories between them in contemporary time. For this, it developed a methodological process of data collection named discussion group, which precepts approached the ones of the focal group, based on Gatti (2012). The survey was attended by a total of seven young readers between 13 and 17 years old, which over nine fortnightly meetings, mediated by the teacher, discussed aspects regarding characteristics and examples of fairy tales, as well as forms of contact with these stories, always motivated by dynamics with materials of reading that would raise questions about the theme. Theoretically anchored in authors such as Coelho (1985, 2000), Colomer (2017), Zipes (1999, 2000, 2006a, 2006b, 2007), Bettelheim (2014), Corso e Corso (2006), Tatar (2003), among others, the study outlines the theme fairy tales to discuss, based on the obtained results from the discussion group, what these young readers stated about the concept of the genre fairy tales, its versions and the circulation of these fiction narratives among the group. The results indicate that even though they have potent criteria to recognize this kind of narrative, the group of young readers frequently confuse the genre fairy tales to other genres, which resemble thematic like some of the Romanesque; that the most popular versions among them of these narratives correspond to the adaptations of Walt Disney Studios to animation film or literary recounts of these stories, and that as a genre always in adequacy movement to its historical and cultural context, the fairy tales are still alive in the experiences with the books and, mostly, with the cinema and the television. Therefore, it concludes that the fairy tales remain between the young readers in contemporary time increasingly unlinked from their classic literary versions.