{ "item_title" : "Literature as Exploration", "item_author" : [" Louise M. Rosenblatt", "Wayne C. Booth "], "item_description" : "First Published in 1938, Rosenblatt's classic is reissued here with 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 and influential 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 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. Eleven presidents and four wars ago Louise Rosenblatt gave us her magnum opus, Literature as Exploration. Since its publication in 1938 it has remained one of the most widely read books on literature and its teaching -- an extraordinary feat of endurance. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, it eloquently escorts the reader to a place where transactions with literature become personally crafted moments of discovery. Sid S. Glassner, Editor Teaching and Learning Literature", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/87/352/568/087352568X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "24.00", "online_price" : "24.00", "our_price" : "24.00", "club_price" : "24.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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