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the horizon of the past. In practice critics usually support their refusal to read the 'Soracte Ode' in a certain way by reference to how they think poetry was read in Ancient Rome. This suggests that the 'history of reading' could and should be extended to Antiquity itself. Such a project, however, even if inspired by the aesthetics of reception, could not be considered an 'application' of anything Jauss has done.
Indeed, the possibilities for direct application of his work are, I believe, very limited. The Provokation essay has not provided a consistent and feasible model for literary history, even if some of its proposals can still (after 25 years) contribute to a reorientation of research. The "Spleen" essay has not offered an acceptable model for interpretation, either in its original form or in its adaptation by Edmunds. The value of the aesthetics of reception, therefore, seems to me to be not primarily historical or hermeneutical, but heuristic.
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