"An Answer to Roman Ingarden." In Fridrun Rimer and Klaus Zerinschek, eds., Komparatistik. Theoretische Überlegungen und südosteuropäische Wechselseitgkeit. Festschrift für Zoran Konstantinovic. Innsbruch, am 5 Juni 1980, pp. 21-26. Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte. F. 3. Bd 51. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1981.
"Auerbach and Vico." In Giorgio Tagliacozzo, ed., Vico, Past and Present, Vol. II, pp. 85-96. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1981.
"David Herbert Lawrence critico letterario." (Remo Ceserani and Anita Piemonti, trs.) Belfagor (March 31, 1981), 36(2): 129-143.
See "The Literary Criticism of D.H. Lawrence" ( 1983).
Four Critics: Croce, Valéry, Lukács, and Ingarden. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1981.
Based on four lectures at the University of Washington, October 11, 18, 24, and November 1, 1979.
"A Historical Perspective: Literary Criticism." In Paul Hernadi, ed., What Is Criticism?, pp. 297-321. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Revision of 1968 essay.
A History of Modern Criticism, 1750- 1950. Vol. 1: The Later Eighteenth Century. Vol. 2: The Romantic Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. 2 vols. Issued as paperbacks.
"Irodalom, fikcio, irodalalmisag." [In Hungarian] (Éva Zehery, tr.) Helikon [Budapest] ( 1981), 27(1): 11-18.
"The Later Leavis." Southern Review (July 1981), 17(3): 490-500.
"Literature, Fiction and Literariness." In Zoran Konstatinovic, Warren Anderson and Walter Dietze, eds., Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Innsbruck, August 20-25, 1979, Vol. 1: Classical Models in Literature, pp. 19-25. Innsbruck: Amoe/Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1981.
"Reflections on my History of Modern Criticism." In Bela Kopeczi and Gyorgy M. Vajda, eds., Actes du VIIIe Congres de l'Association Internationale de Litterature Comparee. VIIIe Congres de l'AILC: Budapest, 12-17 aout 1976/Proceedings of the 8th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Budapest, August 1217, 1976. II: Litteratures de diverses cultures au vingtieme siecle. Vol. 2: Twentieth Century Literatures Originating in Different Cultures, and Comparative Literature in Theory and Practice, pp. 439-447. Budapest: Akadémia Kiadó, 1981. [ Stuttgart: Kunst und Wissen, 1980.
See "Reflections on my History of Modern Criticism ( 1977).
Review of Hans Hertel and Sven Moller Kristensen, eds., The Activist Critic: A Symposium on the Political Ideas, Literary Methods and International Reception of George Brandes. Orbis Litterarum ( 1981), 36(4): 354-356.
Review of Robert Boyer's F.R. Leavis: Judgment and Discipline of Thought, and R. P. Bilan's The Literary Criticism of F.R. Leavis, and Francis Mulhern's The Moment of `Scrutiny'. Modern Language Review (January 1981), 76(1): 175-180.