A Research On Norman N.Holland’s The Dynamics Of Literary Response

As a well-known post-psychoanalysting critics in the United States in the 20 th century,Holland used the unique perspective of psychoanalytic analysis to construct the theory of literary acceptance of criticism,and led the literary world with a new attitude of interdisciplinary and post-modernism.The dynamics of Literary response he constructed is a theoretical model that explores the interaction between text and readers from the perspective of psychoanalytic analysis.This theoretical model combines psychoanalytics,reader reaction criticism and new criticism,with fantasy-defense-implication feedback circle as the core,and conducts research on the reader’s response to text experience and reading.Although this theoretical model was constructed by Holland in the early stage,as a kind of criticism method and theoretical concept,it runs through the academic research and critical practice of Holland,and has an important influence on the development trend of Holland’s post-psychoanalytic theory and even the post-modernist theory of the West in the 20 th century.Based on the book The Dynamics of Literary Response,this paper discusses the related issues with Holland’s theory of literary reaction dynamics as the research object.The main body of the thesis studies Holland’s dynamic theory from the four aspects of thought source,theoretical model,critical ideas and theoretical value.The first chapter combs through the context background of Holland’s theory of The dynamics of Literary response and explains the source and theoretical basis of the theory.This part integrates the various elements that influence the formation of Holland’s The dynamics of Literary response into the research scope,analyzes Holland’s physical mechanics skills,electrical engineering professional study experience,American self-psychology and acceptance aesthetic thought trend on its theory.The second chapter is the main part of the thesis.This paper mainly starts the systematic research from the theoretical elements,operating mechanism,operation process and literary effect of constructing Holland’s The dynamics of Literary response.These include the analysis of important concepts in dynamics system,especially the definition of the connotation of the core elements such as reaction,defense,pre-Oedipus and fantasy;In Holland’s view,according to the length of the subject’s influence and the size of emotional fluctuations as the standard,respectively,can achieve the aesthetic effect of pleasure,trust and beauty.This chapter is the main part of the thesis,which explains the relevant elements of the operation of dynamic mode and the running process in depth,which plays an important role in understanding the dynamic mode.The third chapter applies the dynamic theory model to the construction of literary criticism.He makes a strong interpretation of the relationship between readers and text,writers and texts,and summarizes his critical ideas in the process of combining theory and practice.Dynamic model is a modeling attempt to study the relationship between readers and text,so in the actual reading experience of many literary works,it is confirmed that there is an interaction between readers and text,and Holland also applies this model to the study of the relationship between author and work,and reflects the meaning of text,defense and the author’s actual life with the individual’s personality psychology,and pushes back the writer’s realistic character from the works.This part describes,analyzes and expounds these problems,and shows the implicit mutual evidence relationship between dynamic theory and Holland’s literary criticism.The fourth chapter makes a theoretical evaluation and reflection on the theory of The dynamics of Literary response.The Dynamics of Literary Response has important value and significance in the history of literary theory and criticism.It is not only the starting point of Holland’s entire reading reaction theory,but also shifts Freudian attention to authors to readers,Knocked on the door of postmodernism.But there are inevitably some limitations such as not completely out of text-centric theory,too much emphasis on the biological factors of readers,and narrow theoretical applicability.Nevertheless,the interdisciplinary nature and distinctive post-modernity of his theory,as well as the exploration of literary experience and human ontology,have reached a considerable depth,revolutionized our contemporary literary theory and literary criticism,and provided us with a broad thinking about space.Through the above analysis,the thesis attempts to reflect on how to view the complicated interaction between readers and texts in literary criticism in the contemporary context.As a dynamic psychological process,how to realize the purpose of formal transformation from form to meaning when readers ingest their language and structure.And for the four elements of literary activities of communication interaction and dynamics of the profound exploration of the issue of both enlightening points of view.In the end,the author proposes that Holland’s The Dynamics of Literary Response not only opens the curtain of readers’ reading theory as a pioneer,affirms the active position of readers in the process of reading,but also has enlightening significance for the communication and interaction of the four elements of literary activity and the in-depth exploration of the dynamic problems.