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.