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Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.
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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.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Louise Rosenblatt
Born:
August 23, 1904
Died:
February 8, 2005
(aged 100)
Bio:
Louise Michelle Rosenblatt was an American university professor. She is best known as a researcher into the teaching of literature.
Known for:
Literature as exploration (1933)
The reader, the text, the poem (1978)
Making meaning with texts (2005)
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