Defining the Critical Stance Rosenblatt (1938, 1978) – –Defines stance as the orientation the reader takes toward a text during reading event – –Identifies two stances Aesthetic – the lived through experience of the text Efferent – a concentration on the information and concepts – –The distinction between aesthetic and [efferent] reading, then, derives ultimately from what the reader does, the stance that he adopts and the activities he carries out in relation to the text.
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