"Destroying Literary Studies." New Criterion (December 1983), 2(4): 1-8.
Edebiyat biliminin temelleri. Ankara: Basbakanlik Basimevi, 1983.
Turkish translation by Ahmet Edip Uysal of Theory of Literature ( 1949).
"Formalism." [Letter] TLS [ Times Literary Supplement] (July 15, 1983), 4189: 754.
About John Bayley's assertion in a review of Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory that "the intellectual message of literary Marxism was contained in the formalists' doctrines."
Historia literaria: problemas y conceptos. Edited by Sergio Beser, with an Introduction. Barcelona: Editorial Laia, 1983.
Spanish translation by Luis Lopez Oliver of a selection of essays written between 1940- 1973.
Contents:
"A History of Czech Structuralism." Review of Kvetoslav Chvatik's Tschechoslowakischer Strukturalismus: Theorie und Geschichte. RLC--Revue de Littérature Compareé (October-December 1983), 57(4): 513-521.
A History of Modern Criticism, 1750- 1950. Vol. 3: The Age of Transition. Vol. 4: The Later Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 2 vols.
Issued as paperbacks.
"How, Why and When I Became a Comparatist."
Arcadia ( 1983), Sonderheft:
157-160.
This special issue is edited by Erwin
Koppen and Rüdiger von Tiedemann and entitled: "'Wege zur
Komparatistik': Sonderheft für Horst Rüdiger zum
Fünfundsiebzigsten Geburtstag."
"Interview." In "Wellek, René." In Ann Evory and Linda Metzger, eds., Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Volume 8, pp. 522-524. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1983.
Walter W. Ross interviewed René Wellek on June 29, 1981.
"Introduzione." In Francesco De Sanctis's Storia della letteratura italiana, pp. i-xxv. Notes by Grazia Melli Fioravanti. Milan: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 1983. 2 vols.
"Literature, Fiction and Literariness." In Martha Woodmansee and Walter F.W. Lohnes, eds., Erkennen und Deuten: Essays zur Literatur und Literaturtheorie. Edgar Lohner in memoriam, pp. 33-41. Berlin: E. Schmidt, 1983.
See "Literature, Fiction and Literariness" ( 1981).
"The Literary Criticism of D.H. Lawrence." Sewanee Review (Fall 1983), 91(4): 598-613.
"The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel in English and American Criticism." In John Garrard, ed., The Russian Novel from Pushkin to Pasternak, pp. 241-273. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.
"Vjatscheslaw Ivanovs Schriften über Dostojewskij." In Hans Rothe, ed., Dostojevskij und die Literatur: Vorträge zum 100. Todesjahr des Dichters auf der 3. internationalen Tagung des "Slavenkomitees" in Munchen 12-14. Oktober 1981, pp. 262-274. Cologne: Böhlau, 1983.