Preface

9-18

Dilthey and his influence

19-32

Dilthey and literary scholarship

33-50

Dilthey's plea for an aesthetic theory to account for the new tendencies of the age

51-57

Critique of the three previous approaches to aesthetic theory

58-78

The dual nature of Dilthey's approach

79-96

Art and experience

Basic characteristics of literature and poetic mind

97-105

The onto-psychological foundations of art and literature

106-132

The nature of literary art

Essence and type

133-155

Works of art and literature as symbolic creations

The language of forms

156-166

The literary work

Mode of being, categories for its analysis. historicity of poetic techniques

167-186

Dilthey's plans for rewriting the poetik

Conclusion of the present study

187-196

Chronological list of Dilthey's writings

Appendix

197-203

Bibliography

204-204