Literary canon, school canon and hidden canon

Abstract

The literary work is a product of a culture and a context. The meaning of the literary work must be interpreted in the framework of a cultural system that is continuously changing. Readers of the work, beyond the purely linguistic skills, should have the reading skills to enable them to access the literary encoding. This is essential when we address the most important aspects about teaching of literature: what to teach, how to keep alive the literature in a society with multiple technologies where coexists different reading mediums, what readings recommend, or when and how read the classics that should arrived in the appropriate age and in the right time.