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From: Jane Chinault <chinault>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:16:19 -0400
Louise Rosenblatt's Transaction Theory that is the reader and the text come together through a transactive process and a new "poem" or meaning is created needs to be considered. That can't be ignored. A reader is always going to have an interpretation. To get to the point of why the writer wrote it is just hypothesizing, unless there is an explanation offered. A great example would be the poem The Road Not Taken. Without knowing the background on that poem, a reader has an interpretation that is fairly accurate to the literal meaning, but to get to the underlying reason why the poet wrote the poem... only the poet knows.
Jane S. Chinault, Library Media Specialist B-C Grammar School No. 1 114 Hook Avenue West Columbia, SC 29169-5228
chinault at lex2.k12.sc.us
(library office) 803-739-3133
(school fax) 803-739-8384
Received on Mon 07 Apr 2008 07:16:19 AM CDT
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:16:19 -0400
Louise Rosenblatt's Transaction Theory that is the reader and the text come together through a transactive process and a new "poem" or meaning is created needs to be considered. That can't be ignored. A reader is always going to have an interpretation. To get to the point of why the writer wrote it is just hypothesizing, unless there is an explanation offered. A great example would be the poem The Road Not Taken. Without knowing the background on that poem, a reader has an interpretation that is fairly accurate to the literal meaning, but to get to the underlying reason why the poet wrote the poem... only the poet knows.
Jane S. Chinault, Library Media Specialist B-C Grammar School No. 1 114 Hook Avenue West Columbia, SC 29169-5228
chinault at lex2.k12.sc.us
(library office) 803-739-3133
(school fax) 803-739-8384
Received on Mon 07 Apr 2008 07:16:19 AM CDT
