The Dynamics of Literary Response

Serendipity in the Theater: Maude Adams as James M. Barrie's American Muse

“…Of his initial reaction, years later, Barrie expressed to Adams in a letter, "What a lucky day for me when you and Babbie merged into one" (Robbins, 1956, p. 177, italics added). This merging is typical of mother-infant early development, seen in psychoanalysis of adults as a regression to the oral stage (see Holland, 1968). Moreover, Holland's (2003) recent neuropsychoanalytic rationale for the emotional responses to fiction as real, experienced during the willing suspension of disbelief when seeing movies, plays, or reading a book, is applicable to this case.…”

Dissoziation und Kreativit�t?Entr�ckungen im Alltag

“…Das ist vergleichbar der therapeutischen Ich-Spaltung in Analysen, bei der zwischen Übertragungs-und Realobjekt unterschieden werden muss, damit in der Übertragungsneurose gearbeitet werden kann. Das Lesen ist in gewissem Sinne aber auch eine dyadische Situation von Leser und Autor, und in den Zuständen der "milden Narkose" finden vielfältige Projektionen und Introjektionen statt in einem ständigen Hin und Her von Leser, Text und Autor (Holland 1979 …”

Cultural Tools and Cognition: a co-revolutionary relation

“…In literary discourse, the source of debate is whether literature is a fundamental category of discourse, with distinctive formal and structural properties, or whether it is a cultural form that is maintained by social conventions. Following the trajectory of reader response theories through Richards (1929) and Hirsch (1967), with criticism by Holland (1968) and Iser (1978) for example, Miall calls attention to the danger inherent in not gaining an understanding of literary reading before it is substantially transformed through new technologies, or it disappears altogether.…”