Preface 7; Part I: Writing Literary theory and history today; 1 Towards a Theory of Literary Discourse 19; 2 Literary History between Narrative and Hypertext 47; 3 World Literature(s) and Peripheries 73; Part II: reconstructing concepts of criticism; 4 Postmodern Textology and Electronic Media 89; 5 The Structure of Literary Text and the Event of Meaning 101; 6 Literariness 123; 7 The Text and Genre 141; 8 Stylistic Subject-Fashioning 161; 9 Fiction, Reality, and Laws 177; 10 Textual and Contextual Spaces 199; 11 Cultural Memory and Literature 217; Works Cited 241; Index 269