Problems of origin in modern literary history, Ernst Behler; Paul de Man, modernist, Ronald Bush; Aristotle and the history of tragedy, Paul A. Cantor; genre theory, literary history and historical change, Ralph Cohen; the two histories, Alastair Fowler; postmodernism and literary history, John Frow; understanding alterity - "Auslanderliteratur" between relativism and universalism, Ulker Gokberk; transmission failure, Jon Klancher; history, herstory, theirstory, ourstory, Jerome McGann; Caliban and his precursors - the politics of literary history and the Third World, Michael Valdez Moses; measure and countermeasure - the Lovejoy-Wellek debate and romantic periodization, Mark Parker; literary classifications - how have they been made?, David Perkins; antihistoricism in Benedetto Croce and I.A. Richards, John Paul Russo.