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Norman N. Holland

By Jeffrey Berman

Norman N. Holland

By Jeffrey Berman

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Norman Holland was unquestionably the leading 20th-century American psychoanalytic literary critic. Long known as the Dean of American psychoanalytic literary critics, Holland produced an enormous body of scholarship that appeals to both neophytes in the field and advanced researchers, many of whom have been influenced by his writings. Holland was one of the first proponents of reader-response criticism, the theorist of readers' identity themes, and the author of fifteen books that have become classics in the field.
Jeffrey Berman analyzes all of Holland's books, and many of his 250 scholarly articles, highlighting continuities and discontinuities in the critic's thinking over time. A controversial if not polarizing figure, Holland is discussed in relation to his closest colleagues, including Murray Schwartz, Bernard Paris, and Leslie Fiedler, as well as his fiercest critics, among them Frederick Crews, David Bleich, and Jonathan Culler, creating a dynamic and personal portrait. Insofar as this text illuminates the evolving mind of a premier literary critic, it produces a parallel profile of the American reader, the primary object of Holland's extensive work.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
296
Release Date:
2022-09-22
Publication Date:
2022-09-22
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501373005
ISBN13:
9781501373008
Weight:
376 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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