René Wellek

René Wellek foi um importante crítico literário e professor ligado inicialmente ao Círculo Linguístico de Praga.

Obra:
* Immanuel Kant in England: 1793-1838 (1931)
* The Rise of English Literary History (1941)
* Theory of Literature (1949, con Austin Warren)
* A History of Modern Criticism: 1750–1950 (8 vols., 1955–92)
* Dostoevsky: a collection of critical essays (a cura di, 1962)
* Essays on Czech Literature (1963)
* Confrontations: Studies in the Intellectual and Literary Relations between Germany, England, and the United States during the Nineteenth Century (1965)
* Concepts of Criticism (1965)
* The Literary Theory and Aesthetics of the Prague School (1969)
* Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism (1970)
* Four Critics: Croce, Valéry, Lukács, and Ingarden (1981)
* The Attack on Literature and other essays (1982)