Norman N Holland

Biographic Data

ID255477
NAMENorman N Holland
GIVEN NAMESNorman N
FAMILY NAMEHolland
SIGNATUREHOLLAND N N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Florida
ORCID0000-0001-9862-3449
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS36
WORKS AS AUTHOR31
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1959
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX3

  • Spider-Man? Sure! The neuroscience of suspending disbelief

    Norman N HollandARTICLEInterdisciplinary Science Reviews2008Cited by: 2References: 3

    When 'transported' by stories or plays or movies, we feel no skepticism at, say, Spider-Man's webbing his way among the skyscrapers. Following Coleridge, we have called this phenomenon, the 'willing suspension of disbelief'. Psychological experiments show, however, that during our experience of any narrative, we do not suspend disbelief. We believe, and then we partly disbelieve. Our brains link reality-testing to action and the possibility of ac…

  • The Power (?) of Literature

    Norman N HollandARTICLENew Literary History2004Cited by: 2

    Literature shows its apparent power when we are "absorbed" in a literary experience: Coleridge's "willing suspension of disbelief." We do not sense our bodies or our environment. We cease to judge the reality or probability of events. And we feel real emotions toward people and things we know are fictions. Our sensory and emotional systems behave in this special way because our "disinterested" stance toward works of art inhibits the brain's actio…

  • Where is a Text? A Neurological View

    Norman N HollandARTICLENew Literary History2002Cited by: 1

    New Literary History - Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2002

  • Deconstruction

    Open AccessNorman N HollandARTICLEThe International Journal of…1999

  • Cognitive Linguistics

    Open AccessNorman N HollandARTICLEThe International Journal of…1999Cited by: 3

  • The Story of a Psychoanalytic Critic

    Norman N HollandARTICLEAmerican imago1999

    American Imago - Volume 56, Number 3, Fall 1999

  • Article

    Norman N HollandARTICLENew Literary History1998

    New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 1998

  • A rejoinder to Gerard J. Pape's comments

    Norman N HollandARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology1991

  • Film Response from Eye to I

    Norman N HollandARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1989Cited by: 1

    Research Article| April 01 1989 Film Response from Eye to I: The Kuleshov Experiment Norman N. Holland Norman N. Holland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (2): 415–442. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-88-2-415 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Norman N. Holland; Film Response from Eye to I: The Kuleshov Experiment. South At…

  • The Brain of Robert Frost

    Richard Wakefield, Norman N HollandARTICLEAmerican Literature1989

    With Robert Frost as an example of both a writer and a reader, Holland develops a new way of thinking about literary criticism based on findings in brain research and cognitive psychology

  • Identity of the Literary Text

    Hans Kellner, Mario J Valdés et al.ARTICLEModern Language Notes1986

  • Twenty-Five Years and Thirty Days

    Norman N HollandARTICLEThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly1986Cited by: 2References: 5

    One can imagine the history of psychoanalytic literary criticism (like psychoanalysis itself) as three phases, each enlarging and including the previous one: a classical phase that studied the oedipal conflicts of literary figures; an ego psychology that addressed literary structures; now, a psychology of the self that uses associations to unfold and deepen one's relations to literature. Psychoanalytic criticism used to be disdained in literary c…

  • The Miller's Wife and the Professors

    Norman N HollandARTICLENew Literary History1986

    rT HE SCENE: spring at a large midwestern university. 10:15 A.M. A seminar room. Around the long table and in outer rows of seats are gathered a score or so of professorial-looking types from the English department, some senior, some junior. About a quarter are women, some of them, it turns out, faculty wives. They have assembled for a Working Teachshop by the Visiting Fireman. It is the morning after the lecture and party the night before. Peopl…

  • I-ing Film

    Norman N HollandARTICLECritical Inquiry1986

  • La literatura hispanoamericana

    Norman N Holland, Norman Holland et al.ARTICLEHispania1985

  • Madness and Lust

    Norman N Holland, Norman Holland et al.ARTICLEHispanic Review1985Cited by: 2

  • Freud, Physics, and Literature

    Norman N HollandARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1984

  • The Brain of Robert Frost

    Norman N HollandARTICLENew Literary History1984

    TH HIS TITLE may suggest that I have deliberately chosen a small subject, prompted to mercy perhaps by the weighty burden of some of these cogitations on creation and interpretation. Mercy, however, was not my motive. I have three points in mind. First, I want to show how Robert Frost's interpretations share quite exactly the general style of his writing. In other words, I think one salient fact about the relation between creation and interpretat…

  • Interactive Fiction

    Anthony J Niesz, Norman N HollandARTICLECritical Inquiry1984Cited by: 7

  • Interview

    Wolfgang Iser, Norman N Holland et al.ARTICLEdiacritics1980Cited by: 3

  • Why Ellen Laughed

    Norman N HollandARTICLECritical Inquiry1980Cited by: 1

  • A transactive account of transactive criticism

    Open AccessNorman N HollandARTICLEPoetics1978Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Human Identity

    Norman N HollandARTICLECritical Inquiry1978Cited by: 1

  • Gothic Possibilities

    Norman N Holland, Leona F ShermanARTICLENew Literary History1977Cited by: 2

  • The New Paradigm

    Norman N HollandARTICLENew Literary History1976Cited by: 3

    AM MOST GRATEFUL to the editor for asking me to comment on Professor David Bleich's bold, wide-ranging paper. And thank you, David Bleich, for laying it on the line to literary critics in general as you laid it on the line in June 1971 to this literary critic in particular. As you know, the shift in perspective you then proposed led me to a profound turn in my own thinking about objectivity. 1 I hope it does the same now for other critics and the…