About this title: 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 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. The author's philosophy is frequently cited as the first ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
ISBN-13:9780873525688ISBN:087352568X
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Edition: 5th edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MODERN LANGUAGE ASSN OF AMER
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780873525688ISBN:087352568X
Description: New. 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 examine... read more
"Having read this after her text-The Reader, the Text, the Poem, this one was a little review. She writes, "As long as artificial and pedantic notion of literary culture persists, students will continue in their indifference to the great works of the past and present."
"This is one of the texts that got it all started. I'm referring to the teaching of literature as a transactional process in which students interpret writing in their own way, not in a set way that their teacher prescribes. It's a blow to B.F. Skinner's notions of behaviorism and a nod in the direction of Vygotsky's social constructivism. It allows for innovation rather than stagnation and repetition."
"I have been going crazy trying to remember the title of this book. I finally realized I saved all my papers and could just look in there to find the title. I remember that my professors thought this book was very ground breaking for teaching literature. I remember only bits and pieces now, but at the time it made a lot of sense and cover many ideas about reading I had never considered. Now that I have some real teaching experience, I am interested in revisiting this text."
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