The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work

by Louise M. Rosenblatt and Professor Emeritus Louise M. Rosenblatt

Book Overview

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 circumstances rules out the dualistic emphasis of other theories on either the reader or the text as separate and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809318059
• ISBN13: 9780809318056
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"