Paradigmatic transformations in the field of Literary Studies and History have profoundly altered theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of their knowledge constructions. The basic question of this dissertation focuses on the gap between these assumptions, and more traditional of practices literary historiography, examining innovative responses tested in recent years by experiments in literary historiography attentive to many previous questions in both disciplinary spheres. In this horizon, it will be discussed changes in the conceptualization of the literary phenomenon and its expansion beyond the limits of the text and assessed the consequences of the epistemological awakening in History that affected the choice of objects to be investigated, the methods and forms of their writing. The focus of analysis in this dissertation is the writing configurations of these experiments and the assumptions used to justify their proposed alternatives and their expanded communicative circuits, that is, the analysis of the writing inherent in any literary history and extremely significant in its constitution. The corpus of analysis, focused on the innovative nature of their experiments, both in content and in form of writing, proposes, as an alternative to the epic-narrative model, a constellation of essays by diverse authors. Aiming to promote a reading experience that enables the construction of historical knowledge in literary view of fascinating encounters of readers, this corpus is basically formed by A New Literary History of America (2009), A New History of German Literature (2004) and A New History of French Literature (1989).