Norman N. Holland (September 19, 1927, New York City - September 28, 2017) was an American literary critic and Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar Emeritus at the University of Florida.[1]
Holland's scholarship focused largely on psychoanalytic criticism and cognitive poetics, subjects on which he wrote fifteen books and nearly 250 scholarly articles.[2] He is widely recognized for his scholarship specifically related to psychoanalytic applications in literary study. He was known as a major scholar of literary theory, primarily for having been one of the pioneers of reader-response criticism.[3] Holland's writings have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Persian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.[4]
- ^ "UF scholar, literary critic Norman Holland dies at 90". The Gainesville Sun. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
- ^ A partial bibliography of Norman Holland's publications can be found here: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/nholland/bibliog.htm
- ^ See Tompkins, Jane P. (ed.) (1980). Reader-response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-structuralism. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-2401-X. Tompkins' is one of several important texts that deal with the history of reader-response and Norman Holland's role in its development.
- ^ Holland's translated works include Xiao. Trans. Pan Guoqing. Shanghai: Shanghai People's Publishing House, 1991 (translated into Chinese from Laughing: A Psychology of Humor, originally published in 1982) and La dinamica della risposta letteraria. Trans. Fernando Villa. Rev. Gabriella Fenocchia. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1986. Introduzione all'edizione italiana di Vanna Gentili (translated into Italian from The Dynamics of Literary Response, originally published in 1989. For further translations of Holland's texts, see his bibliography