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Rosenblatt, Louise Michel was born on August 23, 1904 in Atlantic City. Daughter of Samuel and Jennie (Berman) Rosenblatt.
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Louise Rosenblatt's Literature as Exploration has influenced literary theorists and teachers of literature at all levels. This attractive trade paperback edition 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 of literature is frequently cited as the first presentation of reader-response theory, but she differs from her successors in emphasizing both the reader and the text. Her "transactional" theory of literature examines the reciprocal nature of the literary experience and explains why meaning is neither "in" the text nor "in" the reader. Each reading is "a particular event involving a particular reader and a particular text under particular circumstances." And teachers of literature, Rosenblatt argues, play a pivotal role in influencing how students perform in response to a text.
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Louise M. Rosenblatt’s award-winning work continues increasingly to be read in a wide range of academic fieldsliterary 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 circumstances rules out the dualistic emphasis of other theories on either the reader or the text as separate and static entities. The transactional concept accounts for the importance of factors such as gender, ethnicity, culture, and socioeconomic context. Essential reading for the specialist, this book is also well suited for courses in criticism, critical theory, rhetoric, and aesthetics. Starting from the same nonfoundationalist premises, Rosenblatt avoids the extreme relativism of postmodern theories derived mainly from Continental sources. A deep understanding of the pragmatism of Dewey, James, and Peirce and of key issues in the social sciences is the basis for a view of language and the reading process that recognizes the potentialities for alternative interpretations and at the same time provides a rationale for the responsible reading of texts. The book has been praised for its lucid explanation of the multidimensional character of the reading processevoking, interpreting, and evaluating the work. The nonliterary (efferent) and the literary (aesthetic) are shown not to be opposites but to represent a continuum of reading behaviors. The author amply illustrates her theoretical points with interpretations of varied texts. The epilogue carries further her critique of rival contemporary theories.
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Rosenblatt, Louise Michel was born on August 23, 1904 in Atlantic City. Daughter of Samuel and Jennie (Berman) Rosenblatt.
Bachelor with honors, Barnard College, 1925. Certified d'etudes francaises, University Grenoble, France, 1926. Doctor in Comparative Literature, University Paris, 1931.
Postgraduate, Columbia University, 1934. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Arizona, 1991.
Instructor English, Barnard College, 1927-1938. Assistant Professor of English Brooklyn College, 1938-1948. Associate chief Western European section, chief central reports section Bureau Overseas Intelligence, Office War Information, 1943-1945.
Professor of English education New York University, 1948-1972, professor emerita, 1972.
Visiting professor.Rutgers University, 1972-1975. Member of faculty institutions in English, Northwestern University, Michigan State University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Alabama, U. Alberta (Canada), Auburn University, University Massachusetts, 1978.
Participant Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences, secretary 1941-1942. Consultant in field Franco-American Exchange fellow, 1925-1926.
Guggenheim fellow, 1942-1943.
Recipient New York University Great Teacher award, 1972;National Council Teacher English Distinguished Svc. award, 1973. Russell award for distinguished research, 1980. Leland Jacobs award for Literature, 1981.
Distinguished Alumna award Barnard College, 1990, Distinguished Research award National Conference on Research English, 1990.
Named to the New Jersey Literary Hall Fame, 1988, International Reading Association Hall Fame, 1992.
( Louise Rosenblatt's Literature as Exploration has influ...)
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Member Modern Language Association, American Society Aesthetics, National Council Teachers English (James C. Squire award 2002), National Conference Research English, American Comparative Literature, Society Advancement of America Philosophy, International Comparative Literature Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Sidney Ratner, June 1932. 1 child, Jonathan.