Norman N. Holland

The Dean of American Psychoanalytic Literary Critics

Jeffrey Berman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7300-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA, where he has been teaching since 1973. He is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including Confidentiality and Its Discontents, coauthored with Paul Mosher, which received the 2017 Book Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association. An Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was selected by the Princeton Review in 2012 as one of the country’s top 300 professors.

1. Writing Non-Psychoanalytically: The First Modern Comedies and The Shakespearean Imagination
2. Becoming a Freudian: Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare
3. Theorizing Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: The Dynamics of Literary Response
4. Developing a New Model of Reader-Response Criticism: Poems in Persons and 5 Readers Reading
5. Extending Identity Theory in the 1980s: “Re-Covering ‘The Purloined Letter,” Laughing, The I and Being Human, and The Brain of Robert Frost
6. Speaking in a Lone Voice Among the New Cryptics: Holland’s Guide and The Critical I
7. Penning Fiction: “A Cyberreader Defends” and Death in a Delphi Seminar
8. Exposing the Film Critic’s Free Associations: Meeting Movies
9. Venturing into a New Field: Literature and the Brain
10. Contemplating Endings
Conclusion: Norman Holland’s Legacy
Works Cited

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Psychoanalytic Horizons
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-7300-5 / 1501373005
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7300-8 / 9781501373008
Zustand	Neuware