• René Wellek (August 22, 1903 – November 10, 1995) was a Czech-American comparative literary critic. Like Erich Auerbach, Wellek was a product of the Central...
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    Theory of Literature is a book on literary scholarship by René Wellek, of the structuralist Prague school, and Austin Warren, a self-described "old New...
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  • Schleiermacher, Wilhelm Dilthey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Erich Auerbach, René Wellek Marxism (see Marxist literary criticism) – which emphasizes themes of...
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  • Robert Jauss from the then young University of Konstanz, and from the US René Wellek, Geoffrey Hartman and Peter Demetz (all at Yale), along with the liberal...
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  • "criticism must become more scientific, or precise and systematic". René Wellek, however, argued against this by noting that a number of the New Critics...
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    The American Comparative Literature Association awarded him the 2004 René Wellek Prize for his book The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural...
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  • C. McGalliard, René Wellek, W. L. Schramm) (1941) Rage for Order: Essays in Criticism (1948) Theory of Literature (with René Wellek) (1949) New England...
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    ISBN 978-0-8166-1227-7. Bakhtin, Mikhail (1984). p. 114 Bakhtin, Mikhail (1984). p. 105 René Wellek. "Bakhtin's View of Dostoevsky: "Polyphony" and "Carnivalesque"". University...
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  • New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. ISBN 978-0156957052. OCLC 4908303. René, Wellek (1956). Theory of literature. Warren, Austin, 1899-1986 (3d ed.). New...
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  • and Sergei Karcevskiy, as well as the famous Czech literary scholars René Wellek and Jan Mukařovský. The instigator of the circle, and its first president...
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    prime intellectual force (other members included Nikolai Trubetzkoy, René Wellek and Jan Mukařovský). Jakobson immersed himself in both the academic and...
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  • attempted to relegate the apologue in literary and artistic importance. As René Wellek observes, Hegel in his Aesthetics (mediated to at least some extent by...
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  • of the Second World War through the 1970s, especially as embodied in René Wellek and Austin Warren's Theory of Literature (1948, 1955, 1962). Beginning...
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    Finitude, 2002). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 and won the René Wellek Prize in 2020. In 2024 Hägglund was awarded Jan Myrdal’s big prize –...
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    theatre in Prague, as he learned that Hitler's army had occupied Austria. René Wellek: Otokar Fischer, in: The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 17,...
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    Blondheim in 1934), where he remained for the rest of his life. According to René Wellek and Austin Warren: Leo Spitzer early applied [parallelism of linguistic...
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    Pearl as a Symbol", "MLN", 65 (1950), 155–61; reprinted in Conley, 1970 René Wellek, "'The Pearl', Studies in English by Members of the English Seminar of...
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  • included a Guggenheim Fellowship and, for their book Cruel Optimism, the René Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association and the Alan...
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    as a literary critic – a position set out in his early exchange with René Wellek (reprinted in The Common Pursuit).[definition needed] Leavis is often...
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    Nancy Ashton Nichols Leon Plantinga Christopher Ricks Charles Rosen René Wellek Susan J. Wolfson Hamilton, Paul (2016). The Oxford Handbook of European...
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    Critique of Religion: A Response." In 2020, the book was awarded the René Wellek Prize. "This Life". Penguin Random House. Penguin Random House. Retrieved...
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  • from his students and colleagues engaged in related projects (such as René Wellek and Leo Spitzer, with whom Lovejoy engaged in extended debates), scholars...
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  • Renaissance. 1992: Best American Essays for "Canon, Syllabus, List" 1994: René Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association for Cultural...
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  • the subject in the study of comparative literature was contested by René Wellek, a leading figure in US comparative literature, who argued that the study...
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    (1905–1989)  United States novel, poetry, essays, literary criticism René Wellek (1903–1995) 41 Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)  United States drama, novel...
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    Geologic Record 2.4.3 Eras and Periods of Geologic Time The lead author was René Dubos, who wrote the introduction "The Mysteries of Life". 3.1 The Nature...
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    Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics: René Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998–1999 Eby Award for...
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    blind. This caused him to rely increasingly on his students, including René Wellek and Bohumil Trnka, to assist him in his teaching, reading, and writing...
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    Hrozný, Josef Dobrovský, Josef Jungmann, Vilém Mathesius, Julius Pokorny, René Wellek, Jan Mukařovský Medicine – Carl von Rokitansky, Joseph Škoda, Jan Janský...
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  • original on February 1, 2015. Retrieved March 5, 2015. "Guide to the René Wellek Papers". Online Archive of California. Irvine: University of California...
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