Abstract: New Criticism itself was interested in autonomous works, not in history.The premises of writing literary history needed then to be scrutinized, i.e. reception aesthetics paid attention to that literary reception and production should be taken into account.Structuralism promoted the idea to reflect on relations and to stop the flux of time in simultaneous moments.Poststructuralism found the way back to history via intertextuality, with the help of the chains of ideas, figures and tropes, used in literatures, that can be followed between times and places.This is where we are now.