Louise Rosenblatt: The Essence of Civility
Louise Rosenblatt: The Essence of Civility is a philosophical, scientific, and practical justification of Rosenblatt's argument that struggling with words develops the mind to cope with ambiguities of reality.
In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt wrote about literature and exploration and addressed an ancient dilemma. The problem was introduced centuries ago when the Akkadians wrote the first dictionary. Writers had depended on words to clarify social conflicts, and eventually, they realized the ambiguity of language. This problem existed beyond the Renaissance.
In the eighteenth century, languages received a resounding blow. The deists and scientists preferred rational numbers to arbitrary words. The result was that ancient writings lost their grip on Western civilization. In an attempt to rescue social harmony, Mathew Arnold, in the nineteenth century, argued that literature at least contained the wisdom of the ages.
In the twentieth century, however, literary critics rationally studied a work of literature, and scientists studied the roots of languages. Both ignored the value of reading literature. Today, technology absorbs and guides our lives. Rosenblatt's ideas are now crucial. When readers struggle with the ambiguities in words, they also struggle with their conceptions of reality. In this process, the brain learns to accept challenges, to rise above rigid assumptions, and to acquire the flexibility to accept the human condition.
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Louise Rosenblatt: The Essence of Civility
Louise Rosenblatt: The Essence of Civility is a philosophical, scientific, and practical justification of Rosenblatt's argument that struggling with words develops the mind to cope with ambiguities of reality.
In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt wrote about literature and exploration and addressed an ancient dilemma. The problem was introduced centuries ago when the Akkadians wrote the first dictionary. Writers had depended on words to clarify social conflicts, and eventually, they realized the ambiguity of language. This problem existed beyond the Renaissance.
In the eighteenth century, languages received a resounding blow. The deists and scientists preferred rational numbers to arbitrary words. The result was that ancient writings lost their grip on Western civilization. In an attempt to rescue social harmony, Mathew Arnold, in the nineteenth century, argued that literature at least contained the wisdom of the ages.
In the twentieth century, however, literary critics rationally studied a work of literature, and scientists studied the roots of languages. Both ignored the value of reading literature. Today, technology absorbs and guides our lives. Rosenblatt's ideas are now crucial. When readers struggle with the ambiguities in words, they also struggle with their conceptions of reality. In this process, the brain learns to accept challenges, to rise above rigid assumptions, and to acquire the flexibility to accept the human condition.
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Louise Rosenblatt: The Essence of Civility

Louise Rosenblatt: The Essence of Civility

by John Somer
Louise Rosenblatt: The Essence of Civility

Louise Rosenblatt: The Essence of Civility

by John Somer

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Louise Rosenblatt: The Essence of Civility is a philosophical, scientific, and practical justification of Rosenblatt's argument that struggling with words develops the mind to cope with ambiguities of reality.
In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt wrote about literature and exploration and addressed an ancient dilemma. The problem was introduced centuries ago when the Akkadians wrote the first dictionary. Writers had depended on words to clarify social conflicts, and eventually, they realized the ambiguity of language. This problem existed beyond the Renaissance.
In the eighteenth century, languages received a resounding blow. The deists and scientists preferred rational numbers to arbitrary words. The result was that ancient writings lost their grip on Western civilization. In an attempt to rescue social harmony, Mathew Arnold, in the nineteenth century, argued that literature at least contained the wisdom of the ages.
In the twentieth century, however, literary critics rationally studied a work of literature, and scientists studied the roots of languages. Both ignored the value of reading literature. Today, technology absorbs and guides our lives. Rosenblatt's ideas are now crucial. When readers struggle with the ambiguities in words, they also struggle with their conceptions of reality. In this process, the brain learns to accept challenges, to rise above rigid assumptions, and to acquire the flexibility to accept the human condition.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940162637042
Publisher: Covenant Books
Publication date: 06/17/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 343 KB

About the Author

John Somer is a professor emeritus of Emporia State University in Kansas. His academic interests are the processes of learning, the cultural shifts in literature through time, and the current zeitgeist.
In 2013, he published A Rose and Spider Web for America’s Troubled Heart. It is a fictional and historical study of the causes and implications of the crisis in our republic. His most recent book is America’s Instability: A Look at the Present, the Past, and a Precarious Future.
He has coedited and coauthored twelve academic books, three of which reached a general audience: The Vonnegut Statement, Writing Under Fire: Stories of the Vietnam War, and The Anchor Book of New Irish Writing.
Somer has had numerous jobs, as a farmer, a railroader, a realtor, a janitor, an electrician, a plumber, and a laborer. He has poured cement, roofed houses, laid hardwood floors, dug ditches, and planted many gardens.
Upon graduating from college, he returned home, where he lay on the floor, taping many sheets of typing paper together so he could have a strip of paper long enough to hold a timeline of the history of the earth and its peoples. His mother, perhaps in desperation, insisted that he get up off the floor and return to college to become a teacher. That worked out just fine because he enjoyed learning with his students about the mystery and beauty of literature. There, he also found his wife and a life.
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