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The Nature of Literary Response - Five Readers Reading (Hardcover)
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The Nature of Literary Response - Five Readers Reading (Hardcover)
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In a rare fusion of literary sensibility with psychological
research, Norman N. Holland brings to light important data showing
how personality in the fullest sense of character development and
identity affects the way in which we read and interpret literature.
This book will show that readers respond to literature in terms of
their own lifestyle, character, personality, or identity. By such
terms, psychoanalytic writers mean an individual's characteristic
way of dealing with the demands of outer and inner reality. Each
new experience develops the style, while the pre-existing style
shapes each new experience. The sub-title of this book, Five
Readers Reading, reflects the fact that the author, a distinguished
literary critic, worked with five student readers, using a battery
of psychological tests and extensive interviews to study the ways
they reacted to classic short stories by Faulkner, Hemingway, and
others. Combining his own interpretation of the stories with his
understanding of the readers and their reactions, Holland derives
four principles that inform literary response. He then goes on to
show how these principles apply, not just to literary response, but
to the way personality shapes any experience. The book carries
Holland's previous studies of creation and responsive recreation
forward to a major theoretical statement. He rejects the artificial
idea that one must think of a text (or other event) as separate
from its perceivers, illustrating the dynamics by which perceiver
and perceived mutually create an experience. For critics and
students of the psychology of human behavior, this is challenging
and seminal reading.
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