Louise M. Rosenblatt's award-winning work continues increasingly to be read in a wide range of academic fields--literary criticism, reading theory, aesthetics, composition, rhetoric, speech communication, and education. Her view of the reading transaction as a unique event involving reader and text at a particular time under particular ...
Louise Rosenblatt's "Literature as Exploration" has influenced literary theorists and teachers of literature at all levels for six decades. Now reissued in an attractive trade edition, it features a new foreword by Wayne Booth, a new preface and retrospective chapter by the author, and an updated list of suggested readings. In "Literature as ...
First published in 1938, LITERATURE AS EXPLORATION is widely recognized as the first exposition of reader-response criticism. Rosenblatt discusses the psychological, social & aesthetic aspects of the reading experience & argues that teachers must consider what students bring to literature. The fifth edition includes a new foreword by the ...
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Louise M. Rosenblatt, Edmund J. Farrell, James R. Squire, National Council of Teachers of English, Mo.) National Council of Teachers of English. Convention (1988 : Saint Louis
In Literature as Exploration, Rosenblatt presents her unique theory of literature and focuses on the immense, often untapped, potential for the study and teaching of literature in a democratic society. Her "transactional" theory of literature examines the reciprocal nature of the literary experience and explains why meaning is neither "in" the ...
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