Revisiting Rosenblatt's Transactional Approach Through Shaun Tan's The Red Tree
Readers interpret the meaning from the text in many different manners and Loise Rosenblatt put forward the transactional approach to reading which holds true that reading is more of a transaction between the reader and the text. This theory comes under the umbrella term of Reader Response Criticism. The Red Tree is a children's picture book by Shaun Tan. He is an Australian artist, film maker and a writer as well. This paper tries to interpret The Red Tree using the Transactional Approach to understand whether reading can actually be a transaction instead of being totally passive. Keywords Reader Response, Transactional approach, Picture book, Interaction DOI 10.7176/JLLL/55 02 Publication date April 30 th 2019
Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics