Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics, Trans. M. Shaw

FAIN: RP-*0758-81

University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN 55455-2009)
Lindsay Waters (Project Director: November 1980 to October 1990)

To support publication of the English version of the literary theory of Hans Robert Jauss, a leading figure in the German hermeneutic school of criticism. The work argues that literature must be understood in terms of its reception by readers and applies this theory to the European literary tradition.