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Wellek, René was born on August 22, 1903 in Vienna, Austria. Came to United States, 1939, naturalized, 1946. Son of Bronislav and Gabriele (von Zelewski) Wellek.
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Provocative and penetrating, these essays attest to Mr. Wellek’s intense concern during the past two decades with the problems besetting the disciplines of literary theory, criticism, and history. Each essay accordingly sets as its goal the development of a concept that will contribute to better understanding of the literary work. Trenchant investigation of such significant critical concepts as baroque, romanticism, and realism are complemented by illuminating surveys of the current state of literary criticism and related commentaries on contemporary literary theory and scholarship. Concepts of Criticism constitutes a valuable statement of Mr. Wellek’s theoretical position. A number of the essays are published for the first time and a bibliography of Mr. Wellek’s publications is included. René Wellek, author of A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950, is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale.
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With the erudition that has distinguished his lifelong study of literary criticism, Wellek considers the trends, theories, and quarrels of recent years. He continues to insist that criticism--whether written by structuralists, phenomenologists, Marxists, or the New Critics--makes judgments and also takes into account "a common humanity that makes all art accessible to us." He also considers the relationship between literature and linguistics and the difficulty of constructing evolutionary models for literary history. Originally published in 1982. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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The large but underrated corpus of Greek scholia, the marginal and interlinear notes found in manuscripts, is a very important source for ancient literary criticism. The evidence of the scholia significantly adds to and enhances the picture that can be gained from studying the relevant treatises (such as Aristotle's Poetics): scholia also contain concepts that are not found in the treatises, and they are indicative of how the concepts are actually put to use in the progressive interpretation of texts. This book also demonstrates that it is vital to study both ancient terminology and the cases where a particular phenomenon is simply paraphrased. Nineteen thematic chapters provide a repertoire of the various terms and concepts of ancient literary criticism. The relevant witnesses are extensively quoted in Greek and English translation. A glossary of Greek terms (with translation) and several indices enable the book also to be used for reference.
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Wellek, René. The Concept of Realism in Literary Scholarship. 1st Edition. Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1960. 8°. 20 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Text markings in margins throughout. Inscribed by author on front wrapper: With the good wishes of René Wellek / Congratulations on your move! [Offprint from: Neophilologus, Vol.45, No.1, 1960.]
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Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty of René Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, have left an indelible mark on the field of literary and cultural studies. Spanning over fifty years of critical production, this anthology offers unique insights into the origin, development, and expansion of Girard's "mimetic theory"—a groundbreaking account of human interaction and of the genesis of cultural forms. The essays run the gamut of Western literary culture, from Racine and Shakespeare to the existentialist writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. The authors who have most influenced Girard—Stendhal, Proust, and Dostoevsky—receive extended treatment, and Girard's observations on the changing landscape of literary studies are chronicled in several essays devoted to psychoanalysis, formalism, structuralism, and post-structuralism. Though at times overshadowed by his work in religious and cultural anthropology, Girard's work in the area of literary studies has been the wellspring of his thought. All of the essays in this volume develop the idea that the greatest authors are also the greatest students of human nature, for their artistic intuitions are generally more penetrating than the analyses of the philosophers or the social scientists. Girard does not offer us a theory of literature but literature as theory.
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author emeritus comparative literature educator
Wellek, René was born on August 22, 1903 in Vienna, Austria. Came to United States, 1939, naturalized, 1946. Son of Bronislav and Gabriele (von Zelewski) Wellek.
Doctor of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1926. Postgraduate, Princeton University, 1928. Doctor of Humane Letters, Lawrence College, 1958.
Doctor of Letters, Oxford and Harvard universities, 1960. Doctor of Letters, University Maryland, 1964. Doctor of Letters, Boston College, 1966.
Doctor of Letters, Columbia University, 1968. Doctor of Letters, University Montreal, 1970. Doctor of Letters, University Louvain, 1970.
Doctor of Letters, University Michigan, 1972. Doctor of Letters, University Munich, 1972. Doctor of Letters, University East Anglia, 1975.
Doctor of Letters, State University of New York-Binghamton, 1983. Doctor of Letters, City University of New York, 1984. Doctor of Letters, University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1986.
Instructor, Smith College, 1928-1929. Instructor Princeton University, 1929-1930. Privatdocent Charles University, 1930-1935.
Lecturer School Slavonic Studies, University London, 1935-1939. Member faculty University Iowa, 1939-1946, professor English, 1944-1946. Professor Slavic and comparative literature Yale University, 1946-1952, director graduate studies comparative literature, also chairman Slavic department, 1948-1959, chairman department comparative literature, 1960-1972, fellow Silliman College, from 1950, Sterling professor comparative literature, 1952-1972, Sterling professor emeritus, from 1972.
Visiting professor Harvard University, 1950, 53-54. Lecturer Princeton seminars in literature criticism, 1950, visiting professor comparative literature, fall 1973. Visiting summer professor University Minnesota, 1947, Columbia University, 1948, University Hawaii, 1961, University California, Berkeley, 1963, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1980.
Fellow Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1942, Kenyon School English, 1949, Indiana School Letters, 1950-1972. Visiting Patten professor comparative literature Indiana University, Bloomington, spring 1974. Senior fellow Society Humanities Cornell University, 1977.
Visiting professor University California, San Diego, 1979, Riverside, 1982, Santa Barbara, 1983. Walker-Ames professor University Washington, Seattle, 1979, State University of New York, Albany, 1980. In charge ASTP program on Czechoslovakia, University Iowa, 1943-1944.
Member joint committee American Council Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council Slavic Studies, 1948-1957.
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Author: Immanuel Kant in England, 1931, The Rise of English Literary History, 1941, (with Norman Foerster) Literary Scholarship, 1941, (with Austin Warren) Theory of Literature, 1949, (with Thomas M. Raysor) The English Romantic Poets, 1951, A History of Modern Criticism, Volume 1 and 2, 1955, 3 and 4, 1965, 5 and 6, 1986, Dostoevsky, 1962, Concepts of Criticism, 1963, Essays on Czech Literature, 1963, Confrontations, 1965, Discriminations, 1970, Four Critics: Croce, Valéry, Lukács, Ingarden, 1981, The Attack on Literature and Other Essays, 1982, Chekhov: New Perspectives, 1984. Editorial board: Philological Quarterly, 1941-1946, Comparative Literature, since 1949, Dictionary of the History of Ideas.
Member Royal Netherlands Academy (foreign), Italian National Academy (foreign), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Bavarian Academy, British Academy, International Association Comparative Literature (president 1961-1964), American Association Comparative Literature (president 1962-1965), Czechoslovak Society Arts and Sciences American (president 1962-1966), Modern Humanities Research Association (president 1974), P.E.N. Club New York, Modern Language Association (editorial board 1946-1950, 53-59, committee research activities 1949-1955, executive council 1959, vice president 1964), Connecticut Academy, American Philosophical Society, Linguistic Society.
Married Olga Brodská, December 23, 1932 (deceased September 1967). 1 son, Alexander Ivan. Married Nonna D. Shaw, May 21, 1968.