An Ethical Ideal? Louise Rosenblatt and Democracy—A Personalist Reconsideration

Abstract

Louise Rosenblatt's theory of literary experience was a landmark in twentieth-century contributions to aesthetics, pedagogy, and literary theory. Her work is consistently studied, although critical re-evaluations have waned in the past ten years or so. This essay turns to Rosenblatt's political commitment to democracy and argues that in her writing, her politics are in conflict with her more personalist sympathies concerning the value of the human being. I draw on the philosophy of personalism to show how Rosenblatt's writing on imagination offers a more congenial framework for thinking about building harmonious human relations.

“No More Being Stuck” in Reading Literature: Effects of Reader Response Journal Project on EFL Teacher Trainees’ Literacy Engagement

“…Reader response application also offers multifaceted benefits in terms of freedom in expressing ideas and democracy education [41] argues that through RRT as a landmark of education, readers as the society members learn how to be challenge themselves in adjusting themselves with diversity to get harmonious interaction in that their ways of aesthetic reading are influenced by the readers' personal accounts [42] and the culture portrayed in the text being enjoyed [43].…”