Presents a lecture of Professor Paul H. Fry that compares the theories of literary history exposed by Mikhail Bakhtin and Hans Robert Jauss. The vision of literature and history of Foucault and Barthes and the formalist theory are discussed by the teacher. Throughout the lecture Fry explains how literature and history have facilitated the social immersion of the reader and textEducação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::Letras