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HANS-ROBERT JAUSS (1921 - 1997)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Asthetische Erfahrung und literarische Hermeneutik.  1982.

    • Question and Answer: Forms of Dialogic Understanding.  Ed. and trans. Michael Hays.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.

  • Versuche im Field der asthetischen Erfahrung.  Vol. 1 of Asthetische Erfahrung und literarische Hermeneutik.  Munich: Fink, 1977. 

    • Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics. Trans. Michael Shaw.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.

  • Toward an Aesthetic of Reception.  Trans. Timothy Bahti.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • "The Theory of Reception: a Retrospective of its Unrecognised Prehistory."  Literary Theory Today.  Ed. Peter Collier and Helga Geyer-Ryan.  Cambridge: Polity, 1990.  53-73.
  • "History and Genre."  New Literary History 17 (1986): 203-332.

  • "The Identity of the Poetic Text in the Changing Horizon of Understanding."  Identity of the Literary Text.  Ed. Mario J. Valdes and Owen Miller.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1985.  146-174.

  • "."  Forschung in der Bundesrepublik.  Ed. Christopher Schneider.  Weinheim, 1983.

    • "Historia Calamitatum et Fortunarum Mearum or: a Paradigm Shift in Literary Study."  The Future of Literary Theory.  Ed. Ralph Cohen.  London: Routledge, 1980.  112-128.

  • "Poiesis."  Critical Inquiry 8 (1982): 591-608.

  • "Trends in Literary Theory: the American Reception of Reception Theory."  German Quarterly 55 (1982): 80-96.

  • "Limits and Tasks of Literary Hermeneutics."  Diogenes 109 (1980): 92-119.

  • "."  Literaturwissenschaft als Provokation.  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1970. 

    • "History of Art and Pragmatic History."  New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism.  Ed. Richard Amacher and Victor Lange.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1979. 

      • Toward an Aesthetic of Reception.  Trans. Timothy Bahti.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  46-75. 

  • "Theses on the Transition from the Aesthetics of Literary Works to a Theory of Aesthetic Experience."  Interpretation of Narrative.  Ed. Mario J. Valdes and Owen J. Miller.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1978.  137-147.

  • "The Idealist Embarrassment: Observations on Marxist Aesthetics."  New Literary History 5 (1974): 191-208.

  • "Levels of Identification of Hero and Audience."  New Literary History 5 (1974): 283-317.

  • "."  Grundriss der Romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters.  Vol. 6.  Carl Winters Universitas, 1972. 

    • "Theories of Genre and Medieval Literature."  Toward an Aesthetic of Reception.  Trans. Timothy Bahti.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  76-109. 

  • "Literaturgeschichte als Provokation der Literaturwissenshaft."  Inaugural Lecture, University of Constanz, 1967.  Literaturwissenschaft als Provokation.  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1970.  Rpt. in Rezeptionsasthetik: Theorie und Praxis.  Ed. Rainer Warning.  Munich: , 126-162. 

    • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch.  New York: Norton, 2001.  1550-1564.

    • Critical Theory Since 1965.  Ed. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1986.  164-184.

    • "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory."  Toward an Aesthetic of Reception.  Trans. Timothy Bahti.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  3-45.

    • "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory."  Trans. Elizabeth Benzinger.  New Literary History 1 (1969): 7-37. 

• Selected Interviews:

  • "Interview / Hans R. Jauss."  Diacritics (1975): 53-61.

On-Line:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory  (1967)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Clarke, Richard.  "‘Effective’ Literary History: A Critical Analysis of Jauss’s ‘Literary History as Challenge to Literary Theory.’"  Postscript 3 (1997): 87-100.

  • De Man, Paul.  "Introduction."  Toward an Aesthetic of Reception.  Trans. Timothy Bahti.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  vii-xxv.  Rpt. as "Reading and History" in The Resistance to Theory.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1986.  54-72.

  • Holub, Robert C.  "From the History of Reception to Aesthetic Experience."  Reception Theory: a Critical Introduction.  London: Methuen, 1984.  53-82.

  • Rush, Ormond.  The Reception of Doctrine: an Appropriation of Hans Robert Jauss' Reception Aesthetics and Literary Hermeneutics.  Rome: Pontifical Gregorian University, 1997.

On-Line:

• de Beaugrande, Robert: Critical Discourse: Jauss

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Hans Robert Jauss

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