Louise Rosenblatt and others discuss the importance of the reader in constructing meaning of the text. The reader is seen as an active agent in their literary experiences. Rosenblatt proposes that there is a “transaction between reader and text. Each ‘transaction’ is a unique experience in which the reader and text continuously act and are acted upon by each other.” She placed these transactions on a continuum between aesthetic (pleasure-based) and efferent (meaning-based) reading.  *Reader response theory also serves as a theoretical framework for literature-based reading.