Question And Answer: Forms Of Dialogic Understanding Ästhetische Erfahrung Und Literarische Hermeneutik. Selections. English

An effort to understand the multifaceted self in relation to the cultural sphere. The author deals with the specific mechanism of literary and cultural understanding, refining his notion of the hermeneutic circle - how the reader interacts with the text and participates in a dialogue with it. The Communicative Role Of The Fictive -- A Questioning Adam: On The History Of The Functions Of Question And Answer -- Three Case Studies In Aesthetic Application -- Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse And Goethe's Werther Within The Shift Of Horizons From The French Enlightenment To German Idealism -- Horizon Structure And Dialogicity. Hans Robert Jauss ; Edited, Translated, And With A Foreword By Michael Hays. Essays Selected From Ästhetische Erhahrung Und Literarische Hermeneutik--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 263-268)and Index.