The dynamics of literary response
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The dynamics of literary response
（The Norton library, N790）
W.W. Norton, 1975
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Reprint of the 1968 ed. published by Oxford University Press, New York; with new pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Reading a poem or a novel, seeing a play or a film, is a special kind of experience. Yet the essential nature of that experience has remained a mystery. Philosophers have discussed the writer's role, and critics the writer's craft, but there has been little disciplined inquiry into the relation of literature to people's minds-the way in which people re-create within themselves the literary experience. Norman Holland approaches the problem armed with a thorough understanding of psychoanalytic concepts, and develops a comprehensive theory of the psychology of literature that deals with poetry, theater, and film, as well as with fiction, myth, pornography, and humor.
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