The Nature of Literary Response: Five Readers Reading

by Clark McPhail

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138536970
• ISBN13: 9781138536975
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"