Books written by Norman Norwood Holland

The Critical I

But nevertheless, one can imagine other uses of these lines, other contexts into which they might be inserted (contexts in which they might become sinister, as the “Ten Little Indians” poem becomes in the Agatha Christie story): what if ...

The First Modern Comedies: The Significance of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve

Literature and the Brain

Our brains are behaving oddly, because we know we cannot act to change what we are seeing. This is only one of the special ways our brains behave to with literature, ways that LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN reveals. 474 pp. 13 ill.

Holland's Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature-and-psychology

Holland also offers a bracing discussion of reader-response criticism and a lucid guide to the work of Jacques Lacan.

5 Readers Reading

The Dynamics of Literary Response

The Shakespearean Imagination

Hollands book examines basic issues as how to read a Shakespearean play; why one play is better than another; to what extent we can think of Shakespeare's characters as living...

Shakespeare's Personality

The essays in this volume explore the conflicts he dealt with, the defenses he used, and the way writing, acting, and directing served him psychologically. What sort of person was William Shakespeare?

Meeting Movies

How did such an outrageously sentimental film enable Holland (and many others) to deal with the scary state of the world in 1942 and, indeed, ever since?" "Meeting Movies poses such questions again and again.

Laughing, a Psychology of Humor

Surveys the various psychological theories which attempt to explain the nature of laughter, and explores the relationship between humor and a person's sense of identity

The Critical I

It seems to me that Derrida is claiming for “ writing , ” the pairing of signifiers with signifieds that he adapts from ... At best , Derrida has a bi - active model of reading : readers do some things but texts also do things .

Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery

... murder was quite unnecessary , wasn't it ? " I said . " Yes , " said Rhodes . " If Aval had waited until the meeting this morning , he'd have known that it was . He'd have learned that I had come to the same conclusion he must have come to ...

Holland's Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature-and-psychology

Holland also offers a bracing discussion of reader-response criticism and a lucid guide to the work of Jacques Lacan.

Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare