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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 Critic". [1] The two met at the University of Iowa in the late 1930s, and by 1940 had begun writing the book; they wrote collaboratively, in a single voice over a period of three years.
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 European philological tradition and was known as a "fair-minded critic of critics."
Wellek, René; Warren, Austin (1993). Teori Kesusastraan [Theory of Literature]. Translated by Melani Budianta. Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama. ISBN 9789794034545. Budianta, Melani (2002). Membaca Sastra: Pengantar Memahami Sastra untuk Perguruan Tinggi [Reading Literature: An Introduction to Understanding Literature for Higher Education ...
The Prague linguistic circle included the Russian émigrés Roman Jakobson, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, 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 until his death in 1945, was the Czech linguist Vilém Mathesius. [8]
Formalism was the dominant mode of academic literary study in the US at least from the end of the Second World War through the 1970s, especially as embodied in René Wellek and Austin Warren's Theory of Literature (1948, 1955, 1962).
In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. A close reading emphasizes the single and the particular over the general, via close attention to individual words, the syntax, the order in which the sentences unfold ideas, as well as formal structures.
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine [a] (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.
René Wellek: Yale University: Completion of a history of modern criticism: Also won in 1951, 1952, 1956 [117] [27] Medieval History: Walter H. Principe: St. Michael's College, University of Toronto [95] Medieval Literature: Alfred David: Indiana University: Preparation of an edition of Chaucer's short poems and The Romaunt of the Rose [39 ...