Hans-Robert Jauss

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Hans-Robert Jauss (1921-1997) was a German academic, notable for his work in reception theory and medieval and modern French literature. After studying with Hans-Georg Gadamer at the University of Heidelberg, he taught mainly at the University of Konstanz as well as at Columbia University, Yale University, and the Sorbonne. He founded and co-edited the journal Poetik und Hermeneutik (1964-1993).

Bibliography

Jauss, Hans Robert. Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics. Translated by Michael Shaw. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982.

Jauss, Hans Robert. Toward an Aesthetic of Reception. Translated by Timothy Bahti. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982.

Jauss, Hans Robert. Wege des Verstehens. Munich: W. Fink, 1994.

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

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