
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)