: New Directions in Literary History (1974)

Notes on Contributors; Introduction – Ralph Cohen; 1. Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory – Hans Robert Jauss 2. Past Significance and Present Meaning in Literary History – Robert Weimann 3. Some Observations on Method in Literary Studies - D. W. Robertson, Jr 4. The Life and Death of Literary Forms – Alastair Fowler 5. History – Writing as Answerable Style – Geoffrey H. Hartman 6. History and Fiction as Modes of Comprehension – Louis O. Mink 7. The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach – Wolfgang Iser 8. The Stylistic Approach to Literary History – Michael Riffaterre 9. Poetry as Fiction – Barbara Herrnstein Smith 10. The Limits of Literature – Henryk Markiewicz 11. Ut Pictura Noesis? Criticism in Literary Studies and Art History – Svetlana and Paul Alpers 12. Notes for an Anatomy of Modern Autobiography – Francis R. Hart 13. Dreaming with Adam: Notes on Imaginary History – George Garrett