Norman N. Holland: The Dean of American Psychoanalytic Literary Critics

Author(s) : Jeffrey Berman

Norman N. Holland: The Dean of American Psychoanalytic Literary Critics

Book Details

  • Publisher : Bloomsbury
  • Published : 2022
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 296
  • Category :
    Culture and Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97857
  • ISBN 13 : 9781501373008
  • ISBN 10 : 1501373005

Table of Contents


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

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