Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays A source page for quotes linked to Louise Rosenblatt. 0 quotes
Transactions with literature: a fifty-y... A source page for quotes linked to Louise Rosenblatt. 0 quotes
“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.” NeedsMomentsPastMemoriesConditionsEventsParticularPersonalityReaderElementsResponseDetermineMoodCombinationTraitsPreoccupationPersonality TraitsPast Events Book:Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt
“Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.” WorldLiteratureUnderstandingWiseIntroducingBeing Wise Author:Louise Rosenblatt
“A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.” ReaderGuidanceRelevant Author:Louise Rosenblatt
“Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.” PeopleBookHappens Book:Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays Source: Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays
“Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.” GivingWritingBookReadingReaderPagesProfessorsInk Author:Louise Rosenblatt