The Scarlet Letter: A Review
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Q: If the book did not evoke any past memories or associations, do you
consider it literature? Based on which other criteria?
I. I did not make a very clear connection with the text at all during my
reading of it. Rosenblat said "The readers attention to the text activates
certain elements in h ....
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.... the text has
been taken in by other people. After all, it isn't one person that turns a
story into a classic; the same should be said of literature. Rosenblat
said the same idea better than I: "Keeping the live process of the
literary experience before us, I shall attempt to look more deeply into the
nature of the literary experience, and to explore implications for problems
of literary theory. . ." I think that Rosenblat would agree with me that
it might not be literature in my own se ....
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