René Wellek
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Born | René Wellek August 22, 1903 Literary critic |
René Wellek (August 22, 1903 – November 10, 1995) was a
Biography
René Wellek was born and raised in
From 1939, the beginning of World War II in Europe, Wellek lived in America.[1] He taught first at the University of Iowa for seven years until 1946, and then, beginning in that year, at Yale University, where he established and chaired a department of comparative literature. In the United States, he was "widely regarded as a founder of the study of comparative literature."[1] With Austin Warren, Wellek published a landmark volume entitled Theory of Literature, one of the first works to systematize literary theory.
Beginning in the 1960s, Wellek defended the
Wellek was an elected member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.[6][7]
The crowning work of Wellek's career was an eight-volume magnum opus entitled A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950, the last two volumes of which he dictated from his bed in a nursing home at age 92.[1]
Bibliography
- Immanuel Kant in England 1793–1838, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1931. [Dissertation]
- The Rise of English Literary History, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1941.
- Literature and Ideas, Charlottesville: The University of Virginia, 1948.
- Theory of Literature (with Austin Warren), New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1949.
- A History of Modern Criticism 1750–1950, New Haven: Yale UP, 1955–1992. (8 Volumes)
- Dostoevsky: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1962. (Introduction pp. 1–15; Anthology)
- Concepts of Criticism, Ed. Stephen G. Nichols, Jr. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963. (Collection of Wellek's essays)
- Essays on Czech Literature, The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1963.
- Confrontations: Studies in the Intellectual and Literary Relations between Germany, England, and the United States during the Nineteenth Century, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1965.
- The Literary Theory and Aesthetics of the Prague School, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1969.
- Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism, New Haven: Yale UP, 1971.
- Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, (with Alvaro Ribeiro) Oxford: Oxford UP, 1979. (Anthology)
- Four Critics: Croce, Valéry, Lukács, and Ingarden, Seattle: Washington UP, 1981.
- Chekhov: New Perspectives (Twentieth Century Views), (with Nonna D. Wellek) Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1981. (Anthology)
- The Attack on Literature and Other Essays, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982. (Collection of Wellek's essays)
Journal articles
- "Prospect and Retrospect", Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA), Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1978.
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Robert McG. Thomas Jr. (16 November 1995). "Rene Wellek, 92, a Professor Of Comparative Literature, Dies". The New York Times. p. B 16. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ Wellek, René. Concepts of Criticism ed. S. G. Nichols, Jr. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1963, p. 365.
- ^ Wellek, René. Concepts of Criticism ed. S. G. Nichols, Jr. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1963, p. 2 and p. 20. Reprint of "Literary Theory, Criticism, and History," English Studies Today, 2nd ser., ed. G. A. Bonnard (Bern, Francke Verlag, 1961) pp. 53-65.
- ^ Wellek 1963, p. 17.
- ^ Wellek 1963, p. 20.
- ^ "Rene Wellek". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
References
- Champion, Rafe (Winter 1996). "Rene Wellek - premier scholar of literature". Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- Yeghiayan, Eddie. "René Wellek: A Bibliography". Regents of the University of California. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
- Yeghiayan, Eddie. "Special Issues of Journals on René Wellek". Regents of the University of California. Retrieved 2009-02-16. [dead link]
External links
- Guide to the René Wellek Papers. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
- http://easyliteraturenotes.blogspot.in/2012/08/the-name-and-nature-of-comparative.html
- On Nature of Literature from the Theory of Literature