BIBLIOGRAPHY
No treatment of the history of the concept of literature
is known. For the term, besides dictionaries, see: Robert
Escarpit, “La Définition du terme 'Littérature,'” Actes du
IIIe Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Littérature
Comparée (The Hague, 1962), 77-89. A. Archibald Hill, “A
Program for the Definition of Literature,” The University
of Texas Studies in English, 37 (1958), 46-52. F. W. House-
holder, et al., comments in Style in Language, ed. Thomas
A. Sebeok (New York, 1960), pp. 339-40, etc. Roman In-
garden, Das literarische Kunstwerk (Halle, 1931). Paul Oskar
Kristeller, “The Modern System of the Arts,” Journal of the
History of Ideas, 12 (1951), 496-527, and 13 (1952), 17-46;
also in Ideas in Cultural Perspective, eds. Philip P. Wiener
and A. Noland (New Brunswick, N.J., 1962), 145-206, and
in
Renaissance Thought II (New York, 1965), pp. 163-227.
Thomas C. Pollock,
The Nature of Literature (Princeton,
1942). René Wellek, “The Name and Nature of Comparative
Literature,”
Comparatists at Work, eds. Stephen G. Nichols,
Jr. and Richard B. Vowles (Waltham, Mass., 1968), pp. 3-27;
idem with Austin Warren,
Theory of Literature (New York,
1949), with bibliographies. Eduard Wölfflin, “Literatura,”
Zeitschrift für lateinische Lexikographie und Grammatik, 5
(1885), 49ff.
RENÉ WELLEK
[See also Ambiguity; Classification of the Arts;
Criticism;
Motif; Myth;
Periodization; Style;
Ut pictura poesis.]
