Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Remarks on Formalist and Hermeneutic Features of the Conference Papers 1
5. Part One: Verification of Formalist Analysis
6. The Model of Reading in Rousseau's Dialogues 11
7. Reading as a Process of Reconstruction: A Critique of Recent Structuralist Formulations 19
8. The Reader's Perception of Narrative: Balzac's Paix du menage 28
9. Discursive Criticism and Epistemology 38
10. A Critique of Roland Barthes' Essay on Bataille' s Histoire de l' oeil 48
11. Part Two: Verification of Hermeneutic Criticism
12. Strategies of Reversal in Literary Narrative 61
13. Hermeneutic Criticism and the Description of Form 78
14. Narrative Strategies as a Means of Communication 100
15. Pas de trois: Narrative, Hermeneutics, and Structure in Medieval Poetics 118
16. Part Three: Metacriticism
17. Theses on the Transition from the Aesthetics of Literary Works to a Theory of Aesthetic Experience 137
18. Ariadne's Thread: Repetition and the Narrative Line 148
19. So What? How So? and the Form that Matters 167
20. Conclusion and Epilogue
21. Conclusion: Literary Structuralism and Hermeneutics in Significant Convergence, 1976 177
22. Epilogue 186
23. References 191
24. Index of Authors 199