Norman N. Holland, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Norman N. Holland

American literary critic

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1927

Date of Death: 28-Sep-2017

Profession: journalist, literary critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Norman N.
Holland (September 19, 1927, New York City - September 28, 2017) was an American literary critic and Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar Emeritus at the University of Florida.Holland's scholarship focused largely on psychoanalytic criticism and cognitive poetics, subjects on which he wrote fifteen books and nearly 250 scholarly articles.
He is widely recognized for his scholarship specifically related to psychoanalytic applications in literary study.
He was known as a major scholar of literary theory, primarily for having been one of the pioneers of reader-response criticism.
Holland's writings have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Persian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.