Author: Wellek, René.
Title: Concepts of criticism.
Description: Edited by Sthephen G. Nichols, Jr. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1964. 2nd printing. Paperback. xv,403 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - René Wellek (1903-1995) was a Czech-American comparative literary critic. Like Erich Auerbach, Wellek was an eminent product of the Central European philological tradition and was known as a vastly erudite and fair-minded critic of critics. Beginning in the 1960s, Wellek defended the New Critics against the condemnation of their work in the name of a structuralist-influenced literary theory, and is thus sometimes classed as a conservative critic. Wellek advocated a synthesized approach to literary criticism, one that included 1) literary theory, 2) a careful study of previous works of criticism, and 3) a thorough understanding of the surrounding history involved in an author's creation of a work, including the author's personal history and milieu.

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