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René Wellek

Book Reviews

Spring 1954

Auerbach’s Special Realism

By René Wellek

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Erich Auerbach. Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask. Princeton University Press. $7.50. Erich Auerbach’s remarkable book on Western literature, […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1949

The Impasse of Literary History

By René Wellek

Theory Of American Literature by Howard Mumford Jones. Cornell University Press. $2.75. Literary History Of The United States edited by Robert E. Spiller, Willard Thorp, Thomas H. Johnson, H. S. […]