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George Stade

Book Reviews

Autumn/ September 1969

The Dynamics of Literary Criticism

By George Stade

The Dynamics of Literary Criticism by Norman N. Holland. Oxford University Press, $8.00. Psychoanalytic criticism is either diagnostic or per allegoriam. It treats literary texts as symptoms of authors or […]