… A text never exists alone, but for reference, opposition or contribution to other texts, in which it more than opens a dialogue in the times implicit. It is read, then, in two levels: of point of view that tries to elaborate – from the experience with that it works – and in the universe where this point of view if inserts (FOUCAMBERT, 1997, p.106 and 111). In the truth, in if treating to school, all they know and they learn to read, but it has a very great gamma of possibilities of readings. Therefore, she is necessary, to the professor, to have clearly that reading if waits that pupil knows. In this direction, the theory of the reception, that values the paper of the reader as party to suit of production of the workmanship, comes to contribute for one better agreement of what it is reading, especially reading of the literary text.
Considered the most recent manifestation of the hermeneutics study of the meaning of the text, the theory of the reception opposes it German Gadamer, hermeneuta, a time that it does not concentrate itself in studying only workmanships of the past. The aesthetic one of the reception of the great importance for the paper of the reader in literature, as already was said before. It considers that reading and author is equally important, therefore the text alone has literary value for the significao who is attributed to it by the reader, with the practical one of the reading. For the theory of the reception the act of the reading if of the one in a dynamic process in which the reader has its horizon of expectations exactly modified when this is reaffirmed: … The reading is not gradual a linear movement, a question mere cumulative: our initial speculations generate a picture of references for the interpretation of what it comes to follow, …