The Dynamics of Literary Response / / Norman N. Holland.

Begins a series of theoretical discoveries about reading and writing intended to lead to a new kind of criticism.  Called theoretical criticism, its goal is to look at literature from an acceptance of the relationship between the reader and the work.

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1989]
©1989
Year of Publication:1989
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (378 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Morningside Edition
  • Preface to the 1975 Edition
  • Preface
  • I. The Model Developed
  • 1. Literature as Transformation
  • 2. A Dictionary of Fantasy
  • 3. The “Willing Suspension of Disbelief”
  • 4. Form as Defense
  • 5. The Displacement to Language
  • 6. Meaning as Defense
  • II. The Model Applied
  • 7. Evaluation
  • 8. Style and the Man
  • 9. Myth
  • 10. Character and Identification
  • 11. Affect
  • 12. The Model Moralized
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Index