Title: Introduction: criticism, theory, and anti-theory
Abstract: Abstract From the theory of literature to the theory revolution In 1936, the comparativist scholar-critic René Wellek called for a sustained and systematic effort to clarify the basic theoretical problems underpinning the relatively new, but expanding, academic profession of criticism. Wellek had grown up in a Czech family in Vienna speaking German; he wrote his first book on Kant, became a member of the Prague Linguistic Circle, moved to London in 1935, and then to Yale, and in 1949, with Austin Warren, wrote the first systematic theoretical book on literary studies, The Theory of Literature. He was better placed than any other literary scholar of his time to comment on the state of criticism immediately before World War II.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-26
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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