Intertextual relationships and litterary competency in Fernando Alonso’s narrative work

• Main Author: Sánchéz García, S.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Castilla, La Mancha 2011-11-01
• Series: Ocnos
• Subjects: Spanish Children´s Literature; Intertextuality; Reader’s intertext; Literary competence
• Online Access: http://ruidera.uclm.es:8080/xmlui/handle/10578/1735

The teaching of literature in the school focustheir objectives in the formation of the literarycompetence, for this reason literary studies shouldopt for a global discourse analysis, studying notonly formal and structural aspects of the literarytexts, but also considering the receptor and thecontext under which literary communicationoccurs. The relations established between thediscourse and the reader should be a key elementin addressing the analysis of literary texts. In thisregard we emphasize the importance of intertextualresources for the formation of a strong literarycompetence and development of the intertextreader.Taking into account the ludic and didactic possibilities that the intertextual game presents for the child reader, in this article we analyze the intertextual reference contained in the works of Fernando Alonso. El misterioso influjo de la barquillera and Las raíces del mar. Two narrations that indicate the potential of such texts to stimulate reading and didactic use of the literature.