Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Louise Michelle Rosenblatt, 1982.
Creator: | Rosenblatt, Louise M. 1904-2005 | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 394 pages Sound recording 8 reels | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteEducator; interviewee married Sidney Ratner
Scope and ContentsFamily life and early education; Barnard College, B.A. 1921; Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Sorbonne: study in Grenoble and Paris, defense of dissertation, 1931; assistant, English Department, Barnard; marriage to Sidney Ratner, 1932; Commission on Human Relations, 1935-1936; involvement in progressive education movement, especially as applied to literature, 1930s; development of own theory of literature; assistant professor, English Department, Brooklyn College, 1938-1948; Office of War Information, 1943-1945; professor, School of Education, New York University, 1948-1972; New Criticism of 1950s and reactions against it; intellectual upheavals of 1960s; teaching methodology and transactional theory of reading; family trip to Japan, 1962; membership in National Council of Teachers of English and Modern Language Association; works: LITERATURE AS EXPLORATION, THE READER, THE TEXT, THE POEM; impressions of Margaret Mead, Leonie Adams and others
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