Primary Sources   I   Phenomenology

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (1958, trans. Maria Jolas, 1969).

Ludwig Binswanger, Being-in-the-World (ed. Jacob Needleman 1965).

Jacques Derrida, La Voix et la phénomène: Introduction au problème du signe dans la phénoménologie (1967, Speech and Phenomena, and Other Essays on Husserl’s Theory of Signs, trans David B. Allison trans. 1973).

Hans-Georg Gadamer, Wahrheit und Methode: Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik (1960, 5th ed., Gesammelte Werke vol. I, ed. 1 J. C. B. Mohr 1986 Truth and Method, trans. Garrett Barden and John Cumming, 1975, 2d ed.,  trans. rev. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall, 1989).

Martin Heidegger, "The Origin of the Work of Art" (1936, Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell, 1977).

Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit (1927, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, 1962).

Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology (1950, trans. Dorian Cairns, 1960).

Edmund Husserl, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology (1913, trans. W. R. Boyce Gibson, 1962).

Roman Ingarden, Das literarische Kunstwerk (1931, The Literary Work of Art, trans. George G. Grabowicz, 1973).

Roman Ingarden, Vom Erkennen des literarischen Kunstwerks (1968, The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art, trans. Ruth Ann Crowley and Kenneth R. Olson, 1973).

Wolfgang Iser, Der Akt des Lesens: Theorie ästhetischer Wirkung (1976, The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response, trans. Iser, 1978).

Wolfgang Iser, Der implizite Leser: Kommunikationsformen des Romans von Bunyan bis Beckett (1972, The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett, trans. Iser, 1974).

Hans Robert Jauss, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception (trans. Timothy Bahti,1982).

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (1945, trans. Colin Smith, 1962).

Georges Poulet, "Phenomenology of Reading," New Literary History 1 (1969).

Paul Ricoeur, The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur (ed. Charles E. Reagan and David Stewart, 1978).