Literary History

Is INTERPRETATION a terminable, synchronic act leading to the complete understanding of a literary work or, rather, the unfolding in time of a series of texts whose complex relation both to their own context and to that of the reader is constantly in flux? Such is the double question that is reelaborated throughout the disparate articles of this issue devoted to interpretation and literary history. Not all the responses are, of course, the same; while Northrop Frye looks to a kind of essence of literature in the trans-historic narrative of the

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