I survey my intellectual history, especially the evolution of my thinking about literature’s impact on human behavior.
Tag Archives: Norman Holland
Why I Think the Way I Think
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Antonio Gramsci, Beowulf, Carl Jung, Carleton College, Hans Robert Jauss, Harper Lee, Huckleberry Finn, intellectual history, J. Paul Hunter, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jerome Beaty, Karl Marx, Literary Theory, Madame Bovary, Mark Twain, New Criticism, Percy Bysshe Shelley, racism, Reader Response Theory, reception theory, Sigmund Freud, Terry Eagleton, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tobias Smollett Comments closed
What Our Favorite Books Reveal about Us
I am having my students compose personal reading histories. Freud provides a useful framework for exploring anxieties and wishes.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Beyond the Pleasure Principle, fort/da game, psychological approaches, Sigmund Freud Comments closed
A Lit Theory that Affirms Readers
The students in my “Theories of the Reader ” course found the theorists we read affirming.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged English Education, Hans Robert Jauss, Literary Theory, Reader Response Theory, Wayne Booth, Wolfgang Iser Comments closed
The Reader’s Role in Literature
Reader Response Theory focuses on the reader’s involvement in literature, opening up avenues untouched by formalist criticism.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Hans Robert Jauss, Literary Criticism, Reader Response Theory, Stanley Fish, Wolfgang Iser Comments closed
What Personal Reading Histories Tell Us
I can’t recommend enough the value of writing your reading history. It will reveal to you sides of yourself you didn’t know you had.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alice Walker, Bernard Waber, Bluest Eye, Blume, Book of Light, Cat in the Hat, Clifton, Color Purple, Dr. Seuss, Freckle Juice, Go Ask Alice, I Know Why the Caged Burn Sings, Ira Sleeps Over, Judy Blume, Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelou, Missing Piece, reading histories, Shel Silverstein, Toni Morrison Comments closed
