Louise Rosenblatt
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Louise Rosenblatt (August 23, 1904-February 8, 2005) was an American literary critic.
She is best known for her influential text Literature as Exploration (1938), in which she argues that literature involves a transaction between the reader, the writer, and the text. Her work made her a well-known reader-response theorist.
She attended Barnard College, the women's college at Columbia University in New York City. Her roommate in college was Margaret Mead, the anthropologist.
[edit] Works
- Literature as Exploration (1938, reissued in 1968, 1976, 1983, and 1995)
- The Reader, The Text, The Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work (1978, revised paperback edition 1994)
- Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays (2005)
[edit] Reference
- Clifford, J. (editor) (1991), The experience of reading: Louise Rosenblatt and reader-response theory
