关键词: 韦勒克, 米勒, 帕洛夫, 俄国形式主义, 推陈出新型学术传承

Abstract: “Make-it-new” is an innovative approach to academic inheritance. A rereading of Wellek’s “The Crisis of Comparative Literature” along with Hillis Miller’s “The (Language) Crisis of Comparative Literature” reveals the latter to be an illustration of “making-it-new.” A rereading of Wellek and Warren’s Literary Theory along with Perloff’s Infrathin brings out “make-it-new” insights in the latter. Miller’s “(Language) Crisis” alludes to “cultural gap” created by “cultural imperialism.” Through criticizing Western-centrism, Miller initiates a new criterion for comparative literature. As Russian formalist leader Jacobson’s disciple, Wellek is expected to contribute to Literary Theory accurate and insightful interpretation of Jacobson. Perloff read about Jacobson in Literary Theory. She kept rereading Jacobson for 60 years until 2022 when she launched in Infrathin micropoetics by making Russian formalism new.

Key words: René Wellek, Hillis Miller, Majorie Perloff, Russian formalism, making-it-new approach to academic inheritance