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As a literary critic, I have no "method," no specialty, but am what is called, in another discipline, a "general practitioner" . . . I look through my repertory for the methods and the mixture of methods appropriate to the case before me—in consequence of which the proportion of stylistic analysis to
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critics, though he modestly confessed that he did not always understand them. Despite this self-description, Warren was independent in his critical views, often refusing to approach literature from any one set of theoretical methodology. He was not a religious critic, but he often approached works in
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The work encompasses "definitions and distinctions" of the natures and functions of literature; literary theory, criticism, and history; and general, comparative, and national literature. Warren and Wellek discuss an extrinsic approach to the study of literature involving approaching literature from
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Warren's generalism, however, was not entirely undecided. He expressed ideals commonly referred to by other New
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movement. According to Wellek, the work was written with the idea between Warren and himself that "we should rather combine our forces to produce a book which would formulate a theory of literature with an emphasis on the aesthetic fact which cannot be divorced from evaluation and hence from
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also discusses an intrinsic approach to studying literature, discussing the use of devices such as euphony, rhythm, meter, stylistics, imagery, metaphor, symbols, and myth. The work concludes with a discussion of literary genres, history, and the study of literature in the graduate school.
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it had been translated into eighteen languages (Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, German, Portuguese, Hebrew, Danish, Serbocroat, modern Greek, Swedish, Rumanian, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, French, and
Hungarian, in order).
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Wellek, René. "Collaborating with Austin Warren on Theory of
Literature." Teacher & Critic: Essays By and About Austin Warren. Ed. Myron Simon and Harvey Gross. Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1976. 74-75.
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277:. On September 5, 1959, he married Antonia Degen Keese. Warren retired from the University of Michigan in 1968. He was known for his then-revolutionary abandonment of the formal lecture.
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Warren, Austin. Becoming What One Is. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The
University of Michigan Press, 1995. 83-129.
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Richard Crashaw: A Study in the Baroque Sensibility
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223:T. S. Eliot
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