The Nature of Literary Response
Title | The Nature of Literary Response PDF eBook |
Author | Clark McPhail |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2017-07-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351478893 |
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.
5 Readers Reading
Title | 5 Readers Reading PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Norwood Holland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 1975-01-01 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN | 9780300018547 |
The Dynamics of Literary Response
Title | The Dynamics of Literary Response PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Norwood Holland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 1989-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780231069809 |
The Dynamics of Literary Response
Title | The Dynamics of Literary Response PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Norwood Holland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN |
Digging Into Literature
Title | Digging Into Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Wolfe |
Publisher | Macmillan Higher Education |
Pages | 451 |
Release | 2015-11-17 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1319020275 |
Digging Into Literature reveals the critical strategies that any college student can use for reading, analyzing, and writing about literary texts. It is based on a groundbreaking study of the successful interpretive and argumentative moves of more than a thousand professional and student essays. Full of practical charts and summaries, with plenty of exercises and activities for trying out the strategies, the book convincingly reveals that while great literature is profoundly and endlessly complex, writing cogent and effective essays about it doesn’t have to be.
Style and Reader Response
Title | Style and Reader Response PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Bell |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2021-02-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027260370 |
Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real readers, players, audiences, and viewers respond to, experience, and interpret texts. Contributions to the book investigate discourse types such as contemporary literature, poetry, political speeches, digital fiction, art exhibitions, and online news discourse. The volume also exemplifies the variety of empirical approaches in reception research, with contributors drawing on a range of methods including discussion groups, interviews, questionnaires, and think-aloud protocols with data analysed from both online and offline sources. Style and Reader Response makes an important contribution to an emerging paradigm within stylistics in which verifiable insights from readers are used to generate new models and new understandings of texts across media, with each essay demonstrating the centrality of empirical research for theoretical, methodological, and/or analytical advancements within and beyond stylistics.
The Intimate Critique
Title | The Intimate Critique PDF eBook |
Author | Diane P. Freedman |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780822312925 |
For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts--above all, "objectivity"--seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement away from this tradition. With their rich spectrum of personal and passionate voices, these essays challenge and ultimately breach the boundaries between criticism and narrative, experience and expression, literature and life. Grounded in feminism and connected to the race, class, and gender paradigms in cultural studies, the twenty-six contributors to this volume--including Jane Tompkins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Shirley Nelson Garner, and Shirley Goek-Lin Lim--respond in new, refreshing ways to literary subjects ranging from Homer to Freud, Middlemarch to The Woman Warrior, Shiva Naipaul to Frederick Douglass. Revealing the beliefs and formative life experiences that inform their essays, these writers characteristically recount the process by which their opinions took shape--a process as conducive to self-discovery as it is to critical insight. The result--which has been referred to as "personal writing," "experimental critical writing," or "intellectual autobiography"--maps a dramatic change in the direction of literary criticism. Contributors. Julia Balen, Dana Beckelman, Ellen Brown, Sandra M. Brown, Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton, Suzanne Bunkers, Peter Carlton, Brenda Daly, Victoria Ekanger, Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, Shirley Nelson Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Melody Graulich, Gail Griffin, Dolan Hubbard, Kendall, Susan Koppelman, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Linda Robertson, Carol Taylor, Jane Tompkins, Cheryl Torsney, Trace Yamamoto, Frances Murphy Zauhar