Literature Out Loud: Experience and Materiality in Collective Literary Readings

Abstract

The reading of literature is commonly thought of as a silent, individual and solitary activity. But other practices of reading literature — historically and contemporaneously — are part of our culture, among them, public readings and reading aloud. Based on the premise of a doctoral thesis on collective reading practices and examples from classrooms (middle and high school) and from a theatrical group, we intend to reflect on the reception possibilities activated in this type of readings.