Question: Does the art
in literature reside in the reader or the text?
Answer: Rosenblatt or John
Rowe Ransom. This study finds that “The work of art lies not in the reader or
the text but in the transaction between the two in a particular social
context.” P. 261.
Comment: Of course. Both points of view, Rosenblatt’s
contributions of the readers to the meaning of literary works and Ransom’s
exclusion of extraneous elements in the reader’s point of view, are important
in the history of the interpretation of literature. In other words, both points
of view are correct and useful. RayS.
Title: “A
Longitudinal Study of the Spectator Stance as a Function of Age and Genre.” Lee
Galda. Research in the Teaching of
English (October 1990), 261-278.
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