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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Biography
General
Miscellaneous
Specific topics
Biographers
Narrativity, literariness, fictionality-factualness
Obituaries
Ages
Areas
General
Backscheider, Paula R. Reflections on Biography. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. (W. J. Bate, A. Motion, E. Wharton).
Baena, Rosalía, ed. Transculturing Auto/Biography: Forms of Life Writing. London: Routledge, 2007.
Bertaux, D., ed. Biography and Society. Beverly Hills (CA): Sage, 1981.
Bradford, Richard, ed. Life Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Dilthey, Wilhelm. "La biografía." In Dilthey, El mundo histórico. México: FCE, 1978. 271-76.*
Clifford, James L., ed. Biography as an Art: Selected Criticism 1560-1960. (Galaxy Books 70). Oxford: Oxford UP.
Donnell, Alison, and Pauline Polkey, eds. Representing Lives: Women and Auto/Biography. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
Eakin, Paul John. How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves. Ithaca (NY): Cornell UP, 1999.*
Ellis, David, ed. Imitating Art: Essays in Biography. London: Pluto Press, 1993.
Empson, William (Sir). Using Biography. London: Chatto and Windus, 1984.
Francke, August Hermann. Lebenslauf.
Jung-Stilling, Heinrich. Lebensgeschichte.
Karl, Frederick R., ed. Biography and Source Studies. Vol. 3. AMS Press, 1998.
Lee, Hermione. Biography: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
Madalénat, Daniel. La Biographie. Paris: PUF, 1983.
Maurois, André. Aspects de la Biographie. 1928.
Polkey, Pauline. Women's Lives into Print: The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999.
Problèmes et méthodes de la biographie. Actes du Colloque, Sorbonne, 3-4 mai 1985. 1985.
Rhiel, Mary, and David Suchoff, eds. The Seductions of Biography. London: Routledge, 1996.
Salwak, Dale. ed. The Literary Biography: Problems and Solutions. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
Scheuer, H. Biographie: Studien zur Funktion und zum Wandel einer literarischen Gattung vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. 1979.
Tomashevski, Boris. "Literature and Biography". 1923. In Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views. Ed. L. Matejka and K. Pomorska Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1978. 66-78.
_____. "Literature and Biography." In Twentieth Century Literary Theory. Ed. Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller. Albany: State U of New York P, 1987. 116-23.*
_____. "Literatura y biografía." In Antología del formalismo ruso y el grupo de Bajtin. Ed. Emil Volek. Madrid: Fundamentos, 1992. 177-86.
Wellek, René, and Austin Warren. "Literature and Biography." In Wellek and Warren, Theory of Literature. 1949. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963. 75-80.*
Miscellaneous
Addison. (On biography). Freeholder 35.
Beck, Julie. "Life Stories." The Atlantic 10 Aug. 2015.*
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/08/life-stories-narrative-psychology-redemption-mental-health/400796/
2015
Bertaux, D., and M. Kohli. "The Life Story Approach: A Continental View." American Sociological Review 10 (1984): 215-37.
Biography 35.1 (Winter 2012): "(Post)Human Lives." Ed. Gillian Whitlock and G. Thomas Couser.
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/t-biography.aspx
Bowling, Kivmars. "What Is Life Writing?" Rev. of "The Spirit of the Age: Debating the Past, Present and Future of Life Writing", Conference Kinston U, London, 4-6 July 2007. Literature Compass Blog: Navigating Literary Studies
http://literaturecompass.wordpress.com
Carlyle, Thomas. "Biography." In Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. London: Chapan and Hall, 1899.
Carroll, Joseph. "Human Life History and Gene-Culture Co-Evolution: An Emerging Paradigm." The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture 2 (2011): 23-37.
Carretero González, Margarita, Laura Filardo Llamas, Mª Elena Rodríguez Martín and Mª Isabel Andrés Cuevas. "Narrating Lives through Film: The Biopic Genre." In New Perspectives on English Studies. [32nd International Conference of AEDEAN, Nov. 2008]. CD-ROM. Ed. Marian Amengual et al. Palma: U de les Illes Balears, 2009.*
Chassay, Jean-François. "Biographies, autobiographies, fictions. L'art de mettre des sujets en ruines." In La transmission narrative: Modalités du pacte romanesque contemporain. Ed. Frances Fortier and Andrée Mercier. Canada: Nota Bene, 2011. 83-96.*
Colvin, Sarah. "Why Should Criminology Care about Literary Fiction? Literature, Life Narratives, and Telling Untellable Stories." Punishment and Society 17.2 (April 2015): 211-29.
doi: 10.1177/1462474515577152
http://pun.sagepub.com/content/17/2/211.abstract
2016
Eakin, Paul John. "'The Unseemly Profession': Privacy, Inviolate Personality, and the Ethics of Life Writing." In Eakin, How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves. Ithaca (NY): Cornell UP, 1999. 142-86.*
Edel, Leon. Literary Biography: The Alexander Lectures 1955-56. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1957.
Epstein, William, ed. Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory and Practice of Biography and Biographical Criticism. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 1991.
Ferrarotti, F. "On the Autonomy of the Biographical Method." In Biography and Society. Ed. D. Bertaux. Beverly Hills (CA): Sage, 1981.
Fielding. "Matter Prefatory in Praise of Biography." In Fielding, Joseph Andrews. Book III, Ch. 1.
Fischer, Wolfram, and Martina Goblirsch. "Biographical Structuring: Narrating and Reconstructing the Self in Research and Professional Practice." In Narrative: State of the Art. Ed. Michael Bamberg. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2007. 37-46.* Rpt. of Narrative Inquiry 16.1 (2006).
García Landa, José Angel. Reseña de La memoria de los muertos (The Final Cut), dir. Omar Naim. In García Landa, Blog de notas 28 Jan. 2005.
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z05-1.html#hoynosvamos
2006
_____. "Retropost #104 (28 de enero de 2005) (La Memoria de los Muertos)." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 2 August 2015.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/08/retropost-104-28-de-enero-de-2005.html
2015
_____. "Out of Character." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 23 May 2007.
http://garciala.blogia.com/2007/052202-out-of-character.php
2007-05-31
2007-05-31
_____. "Out of Character: Narratology of the Subject and Personal Life Stories / Out of Character: Narratología del sujeto y su trayectoria vital." Online PDF at Social Science Research Network
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1142863
2008
_____. "Out of Character: Narratología del sujeto y su trayectoria vital." Online PDF at Zaguán 18 June 2009.*
http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/3373
2009
_____. "Out of Character: Narratología del sujeto y su trayectoria vital." iPaper at Academia.edu12 Feb. 2009.*
http://unizar.academia.edu/Jos%C3%A9AngelGarc%C3%ADaLanda/Papers/423028/Out_of_Character_Narratologia_del_sujeto_y_su_trayectoria_vital
2011
_____. "Out of Character: Narratología del sujeto y su trayectoria vital." In Los caminos de la lengua: Estudios en homenaje a Enrique Alcaraz Varó. Ed. J. L. Cifuentes et al. San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante): Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, 2010. 1053-63.*
_____. "Potocki: Formalización del trayecto vital." iPaper at Academia.edu 5 Dec. 2010.*
https://www.academia.edu/383356/
2016
_____. "Potocki: Formalization of Life Paths / Potocki: Formalización del trayecto vital." Social Science Research Network 6 Dec. 2010.*
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1720503
2010
Cognition & the Arts eJournal 6 Dec. 2010.*
http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Arts.html
2013
Literary Theory and Criticism eJournal 6 Dec. 2010.*
http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Lit-Theory-Criticism.html
2012
Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art eJournal 6 Dec. 2010.*
http://www.ssrn.com/link/Aesthetics-Philosophy-Art.html
2013
Philosophy of Mind eJournal 6 Dec. 2010.*
http://www.ssrn.com/link/Philosophy-Mind.html
2013
_____. "Potocki: Formalización del trayecto vital." ResearchGate 11 Feb. 2016.*
https://www.academia.edu/383356/
2016
_____. "Short Bio 2.0." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 14 April 2015.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/short-bio-20.html
2015
Grabes, Herbert. "Truth and Fiction in Literary Biography: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight." In Grabes, Fictitious Biographies: Vladimir Nabokov's English Novels. The Hague: Mouton, 1977. 1-17.*
_____. "Fictitious Biography as Paradigm for the Better World of Art: Bend Sinister." In Grabes, Fictitious Biographies: Vladimir Nabokov's English Novels. The Hague: Mouton, 1977. 18-30.*
_____. "Biography as a Balance between Tragedy and Comedy: Pnin." In Grabes, Fictitious Biographies: Vladimir Nabokov's English Novels. The Hague: Mouton, 1977. 46-53.*
_____. "Biography as Sinking Back into the Past: Transparent Things." In Grabes, Fictitious Biographies: Vladimir Nabokov's English Novels. The Hague: Mouton, 1977. 96-105.*
Gray, Ross. "No Longer a Man: Using Ethnographic Fiction to Represent Life History Research." Auto/Biography 12.1 (2004): 44-61.*
Holmes, Richard. Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer. 1985.
_____. "Biography and Death." 1997 Huizinga Lecture. In New Writing 9. Ed. A. L. Kennedy and John Fowles. London: Vintage / British Council, 2000. 387-410.*
Jensen, Meg. "Separated by a Common Language: The (Differing) Discourses of Life Writing in Theory and Practice." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 24.2 (2010).
Johnson, Samuel. "Dignity and the Uses of Biography." The Rambler (60). 1750-2. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1953.*
_____. Rambler No. 60. [Biography]. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.2716-18.*
Keen, Suzanne. "Life Writing and the Empathetic Circle." Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (Sept. 2016): 9-26.
DOI: 10.6240/concentric.lit.2016.42.2.02
https://www.academia.edu/28909141/
2016
Kohli, M. "Biography: Account, Text, Method." In Biography and Society. Ed. D. Bertaux. Beverly Hills (CA): Sage, 1980.
Leader, Zachary. On Life-writing. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015.
Lehman, Daniel W. Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge. Ohio State UP-Eurospan, 1998.
Lotman, Iuri M. "La biografía literaria en el contexto histórico-cultural (Sobre la correlación tipológica entre el texto y la personalidad del autor)." In Lotman, La Semiosfera, II: Semiótica de la cultura del texto, de la conducta y del espacio. Madrid: Cátedra / Universitat de València, 1998. 213-30.*
Matthews, W., and R. Rader, eds. Autobiography, Biography, and the Novel. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, 1973.
McAdams, Dan P. "Introduction: Life and Myth" In McAdams, The Stories we Live By. New York: Guilford Press, 1993. 11-16.*
Parker, David. The Self in Moral Space: Life Narrative and the Good. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007.
Piazza, Roberta, and Alessandra Fasulo, eds. Marked Identities: Narrating Lives between Social Labels and Individual Biographies. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Reid, H., and L. West. Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Researching Lives. London: Routledge, 2015.
Runyan, W. M. Life Histories and Psychobiography. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1982.
_____. "Alternative Accounts of Lives: An Argument for Epistemological Relativism." Biography 3 (1980): 209-24.
Stodart. "Narrative." In Female Writers. London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London, 1842. (Women and literature; Gender; Women novelists; Novel; Biography; Religion)
Strawson, Galen. "I Am Not a Story." In On Life-writing. Ed. Zachary Leader. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015.
_____. "I Am Not a Story." From On Life-writing. Ed. Zachary Leader. Ed. Ed Lake. Aeon
http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/the-dangerous-idea-that-life-is-a-story/
2015
Sutherland, John. Literary Lives. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.
Turner, Barry. "The British Love Affair with Biography: How to Exploit the Market." In The Writer's Handbook 2009. Ed. Barry Turner. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Tyler, Lisa. "3. Critical Overview of the Biographies." In Ernest Hemingway in Context. Ed. Debra A. Moddelmog and Suzanne del Gizzo. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. 22-31.*
Wagner-Martin, Linda. "Notes from a Women's Biographer. Narrative 1.3 (1994): 265-273.*
Westerhof, G. J., and E. T. Bohlmeijer. "Celebrating Fifty Years of Research and Applications in Reminiscence and Life Review: State of the Art and New Directions." Journal of Aging Studies 29 (2014): 107-114.
doi: 10.1016/j.aging.2014.02.003
White, R. H., ed. The Study of Lives. New York: Atherton Press, 1963.
Wyatt, F. "The Reconstruction of the Individual and of the Collective Past." In The Study of Lives. Ed. R. H. White. New York: Atherton Press, 1963. 304-20.
Zapf, Hubert. "Cultural Ecology and Literary Life Writing." Lecture at the University of Zaragoza, 9 March 2012.*
Bibliography
García Landa, José Ángel. "Biography: A Bibliography." From A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology. iPaper at Academia.edu 23 Sept. 2010.*
http://unizar.academia.edu/Jos%C3%A9AngelGarc%C3%ADaLanda/Papers/296964/Biography--A-Bibliography
2010
Dictionaries
Biographia Britannica. 2nd ed. 1730.
_____. Biographia Britannica. 1780.
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. David Crystal. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. 2nd ed. 1998.
Chalmers, A., ed. The General Biographical Dictionary: A New Edition. Vol XVII. London, 1814. Online:
http://goo.gl/aZN5B0
2015
Cousin, John William. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1910. Online at Wikisource:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Short_Biographical_Dictionary_of_English_Literature
2010
Diccionario biográfico español. Real Academia de la Historia. (forthcoming 2006).
Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. Sir Leslie Stephen. 1885-1909.
_____. Dictionary of National Biography. By A. F. Pollard and Prentout. Cambridge.
_____. Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1973.
_____. Dictionary of National Biography, 1961-1970. Ed. E. T. Williams and C. S. Nichols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1981.
_____. The Dictionary of National Biography 1986-1990.
_____. Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford UP. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison.
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2008
_____. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. 60 vols. Print and online:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 4 (1962).
Great Lives of the 21st Century. 1st Edition. Ely: Melrose Press-International Biographical Centre, 2005 (forthcoming 2004).
The Macmillan Dictionary of Women’s Biography. Ed. Jennifer Uglow. London: Macmillan-Picador, 1999.
Outstanding People of the 20th Century. (Cambridge: International Biographical Centre, 1999.
Who's Who in France
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2009
Who’s Who in the World / 1999 / 16th ed. Ed. Eileen McGuinness et al. New Providence: Marquis Who’s Who, 1999.*
Who'sWho in the World 2005. 22nd ed. New Providence (NJ): Marquis Who'sWho, 2005.*
Films
The Final Cut. Dir. Omar Naim. Cast: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, James Caviezel, Genevieve Buechner, Stephanie Romanov, Mimi Kuzyk, Thom Bishops, Brendan Fletcher. Prod. Nick Wechsler Music by Brian Tyler. Photog. by Tak Fujimoto. Ed. Dede Allen. USA, 2004. (Spanish title: La memoria de los muertos).
Internet resources
Biography.com.*
http://www.biography.com/
2010
Encyclopedia of World Biography.
http://www.notablebiographies.com
2010
Facebook Timeline
http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline
2011
Personajes.biz: Biografías de personajes famosos y históricos
http://www.personajes.biz
2011
Journals
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
Special issue on Queer Autobiographies.
Ed. Thomas C. Spear. (Lehman College, W. Bronx, NY).
(Forthcoming Fall 2000).
Auto/Biography: An International & Interdisciplinary Journal
Print and online.
Ed. Andrew C. Sparkes,
U of Exeter, UK.
Reviews ed. Michael Erben, U of Southampton, UK.
London: Arnold.
Vol. 12.1 (2004).
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Center for Biographical Research, U of Hawaii, Honolulu.
Vol. 12.2 (1989); Vol. 26.1 (Winter 2003): 24-47.
Eletronic ed. in Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk 9/7/04*
Boletín de la Unidad de Estudios Biográficos 1 (1996).
European Journal of Life Writing
Vol. 1 (2012)
http://ejlw.eu/
2012
Journal of Narrative and Life History 7.1-4 (1997).
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 49 (1941).
Publishers
International Biographical Centre. Nicholas S. Law, Director General. An Imprint of Melrose Press, Ltd. St. Thomas Place, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GG, England. Tel.. +44 (0) 1353 646600 ; fax +44 (0) 1353 646601
Series
(Biblioteca de la Memoria). Barcelona: Anagrama, c. 2011.
(Biblioteca Salvat de grandes biografías, 9). Barcelona: Salvat, 1987
(Blackwell Critical Biographies). Oxford: Blackwell, c. 2004.
(Dictionary of Literary Biography, 286). Detroit: Gale, 2003.
(Grandes Biografías de la Historia de España). Series ed. Virgilio Ortega. Barcelona: Planeta DeAgostini, c. 2007.*
(Great Contemporaries Series). London, c. 1968.
(Literary Lives). Houndmills: Macmillan, c. 2000.
(Missouri Biography Series). U of Missouri P, c. 1998.
(Overlook Illustrated Lives). Overlook Press, 2004.
(Oxford Lives). Oxford: Oxford UP, c. 1991.
(Personalia de Muchnik Editores). Barcelona: Muchnik, c. 2001.*
(Routledge Historical Biographies). London: Routledge, c. 2006.
(Temple Biographies). London: Dent, c. 1904.