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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERARY THEORY, CRITICISM AND PHILOLOGY

by Jos ngel GARCA LANDA (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

DEFINITIONS OF LITERATURE
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Top ten Alborg, Juan Luis. Sobre crtica y crticos. (Definition of literature, 15-268.). Madrid: Gredos, 1991.* Attridge, Derek. The Singularity of Literature. London: Routledge, 2004. Compagnon, Antoine. "La littrature." In Compagnon, Le dmon de la thorie: Littrature et sens commun. Paris: Seuil, 1998. 2000. 27-46.* Eagleton, Terry. "Introduction: What is Literature?" In Eagleton, Literary Theory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983. 1-16. Escarpit, R. "La dfinition du terme 'littrature'." Actes du IIIe Congrs de l'Association Internationale de Littrature Compare. The Hague: Mouton, 1962. 77-89. Fendler, Susanne, and Ruth Wittlinger, eds. The Idea of Literature in Europe. Houndmills: U of Durham / Macmillan, 1999. Fish, Stanley E. "What Is Stylistics and Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?" Part 1 in Approaches to Poetics. Ed. Seymour Chatman. New York: Columbia UP, 1973. 109-52. Rpt. in Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? 68-96. Part 2 in Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1980. 246-67.* Robson, W. W. "The Definition of Literature." In Robson, The Definition of Literature and Other Essays. 1982. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984. 1-19.* Todorov, Tzvetan. "La notion de littrature." In Todorov, Les Genres du discours. Paris: Seuil, 1978. 13-26.*

Wellek, Ren. "Literature and its Cognates." In Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Ph. P. Wiener. New York: Scribner's, 1973. 5.3.81.

General Alborg, Juan Luis. Sobre crtica y crticos. (Definition of literature, 15-268.). Madrid: Gredos, 1991.* Attridge, Derek. "'This Strange Institution Called Literature': An Interview with Jacques Derrida." In Derrida, Acts of Literature. Ed. Derek Attridge. New York: Routledge, 1992. 33-75.* _____. The Singularity of Literature. London: Routledge, 2004. Barthes, Roland. "Littrature et signification." Tel quel (1963). Rpt. in Barthes, Essais critiques. Paris: Seuil, 1964. 258-76. Bass, Alan. "'Literature' / Literature." In Velocities of Change. Ed. Richard Macksey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1974. 341-53. Beardsley, Monroe C. "The Concept of Literature." In Literary Theory and Structure. Ed. Frank Brady, John Palmer and Martin Price. New Haven: Yale UP, 1973. 23-39. Benjamin, Andrew. "Philosophy's Other: the Plural Event as Literature." The Literal 21.2 (July 1998): 227 Compagnon, Antoine. "La littrature." In Compagnon, Le dmon de la thorie: Littrature et sens commun. Paris: Seuil, 1998. 2000. 27-46.* _____. Para qu sirve la literatura? Barcelona: Acantilado, 2008. Cook, Guy. "Making the Subtle Difference: Literature and NonLiterature in the Classroom." In The Language and Literature Reader. Ed. Ronald Carter and Peter Stockwell. Abingdon (UK) Routledge, 2008.* Coste, Didier. "Narrative and Verbal Art: Literariness in Communication." In Coste, Narrative as Communication. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989. 71-96.* Domnguez Caparrs, Jos. "Captulo I. Definicin de la literatura. Sus funciones." In Domnguez Caparrs, Teora de la Literatura. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Ramn Areces, 2002. 14-32.* Eagleton, Terry. "Introduction: What is Literature?" In Eagleton, Literary Theory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983. 1-16. Escarpit, R. "La dfinition du terme 'littrature'." Actes du IIIe

Congrs de l'Association Internationale de Littrature Compare. The Hague: Mouton, 1962. 77-89. Fendler, Susanne, and Ruth Wittlinger, eds. The Idea of Literature in Europe. Houndmills: U of Durham / Macmillan, 1999. Fiedler, Leslie. What Was Literature? Class Culture and Mass Society. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. Fish, Stanley E. "What Is Stylistics and Why Are :They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?" Part 1 in Approaches to Poetics. Ed. Seymour Chatman. New York: Columbia UP, 1973. 109-52. Rpt. in Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? 68-96. Part 2 in Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1980. 246-67.* Fowler, Roger. "Literature as Discourse." Select. in TwentiethCentury Literary Theory. Ed. K. M. Newton. London: Macmillan, 1988. 125-30.* _____. "Preliminaries to a Sociolinguistic Theory of Literary Discourse." In Fowler, Literature as Social Discourse: The Practice of Linguistic Criticism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1981. 180-200.* Garca Berrio, Antonio. "Lingstica, literaridad/poeticidad (Gramtica, Pragmtica, Texto)". 1616. Anuario de la Sociedad Espaola de Literatura General y Comparada 2 (1979): 125170. Girolamo, C. di. Critica della letterariet. Miln: Il Saggiatore, 1978. Groeben, N. and M. Schreier. "Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Aspects of the Concept of Literature: The Example of Polyvalence Convention." Poetics 26.1 (1998). Guijarro, Jos Luis. "The Possible Place of Relevance Theory in a Cognitive Explanation of Literature." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 11 (November 1998): 117-37.* Hassan, Ihab. "A ReVision of Literature." New Literary History 8.1 (1976). Hopkins, Chris. Thinking about Texts. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000. Iser, Wolfgang. "Changing Functions of Literature." In Iser, Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989. Pbk. 1993. 197-214.8 Lzaro Carreter, F. "Qu es la literatura?" Santander: Publicaciones de la Universidad Internacional Menndez Pelayo, 1976. _____. "The Literal Message." Critical Inquiry 3 (1976): 315-22. _____. "El mensaje literal." In Lzaro, Estudios de lingstica. Barcelona: Crtica, 1980. 173-92.

Lotman, I. M. "The Content and Structure of the Concept of 'Literature'." PTL 1.2 (1976): 339-56. _____. "The Content and Structure of the Concept of 'Literature'." Select. in Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Ed. K. M. Newton. London: Macmillan, 1988. 176-9. Magny, Claude-Edmonde. "Limites, non frontires, de la littrature." In Magny, Les Sandales d'Empdocle: Essai sur les limites de la littrature. Neuchtel: ditions de la Baconnire, 1945. 26788.* Margghescou, M. Le concept de littrariet. The Hague: Mouton, 1974. Marx, William. L'Adieu la littrature: Histoire d'une dvalorisation, XVIIIe-XXe sicle. (Paradoxe). Paris: Minuit. Martnez Bonati, Flix. La estructura de la obra literaria. 1960. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1972. _____. Fictive Discourse and the Structure of Literature: A Phenomenological Approach. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981. Miner, Earl. "The Objective Fallacy and the Real Existence of Literature." PTL 1.1 (1976): 11-31. New, Christopher. "What Is Literature? Clearing the Ground." "What Is Literature? Definitions and Resemblances." In New, Philosophy of Literature: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 1999. 1-18, 19-38.* Randall, Marilyn Joan. "The Context of Literary Communication: Convention and Presupposition." Journal of Literary Semantics 17.1 (1988): 46-53. Rey, Alain. "Littrature." In Dictionnaire des littratures en langue franaise. Robson, W. W. "The Definition of Literature." In Robson, The Definition of Literature and Other Essays. 1982. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984. 1-19.* Royle, Nicholas. Veering: A Theory of Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012. Ohmann, Richard. "Los actos de habla y la definicin de la literatura". In Mayoral 11-34. Trans. of "Speech Acts and the Definition of Literature". Philosophy and Rhetoric 4.1 (1971): 1-19. _____. "Literature as Act." In Approaches to Poetics. Ed. Seymour Chatman. New York: Columbia UP, 1973. 81-107. _____. "The Social Definition of Literature." In What Is Literature? Ed. Paul Hernadi. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978. 89-101. Ortiz, Jos Mara. "Literatura: En busca de una tierra de asilo (o de la

literatura como significante." Revista de Filologa Moderna 2/3 (1992): 217-34. Rey-Debove, Josette. "Note sur une interprtation autonymique de la littrarit: le mode du 'comme je dis'." Littrature 4 (1971). Sartre, Jean-Paul. "Qu'est-ce que la littrature?" In Sartre, Situations, II. Paris: Gallimard, 1948. 55-330. _____. What is Literature? Trans. Bernard Frechtman. New York: Harper, 1949. Trans. of Situations II. _____. What is Literature? Trans. Bernard Frechtman. London: Methuen, 1950. 1967. _____. Qu es la literatura? Trans. Aurora Bernrdez. 6th ed. Buenos Aires: Losada, 1976. Trans. of "Qu'est-ce que la littrature?". Situations 2. _____. Qu es la literatura? . Buenos Aires: Losada, 1976. _____. From "What Is Literature?" In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001. Schwartz, Murray M. "Where Is Literature?" College English 6 (1975): 756-65. Stevenson, R. L. "On Style in Literature: Its Technical Elements." The Contemporary Review (1885). (Nature of literature; Nature of poetry; Nature of prose; Metre; Rhythm; Style) _____. "On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature." In Stevenson, Essays in the Art of Writing. London: Chatto, 1910. 3-46.* _____. "Sobre algunos elementos tcnicos del estilo literario." In Stevenson, Obras completas. Barcelona: RBA, 2005. 4.24860.* Talens, Jenaro, Jos Romera Castillo, Antonio Tordera and Vicente Hernndez Esteve. Elementos para una semitica del texto artstico (poesa, narrativa, teatro, cine). 1978. 4th ed. Madrid: Ctedra, 1988.* Todorov, Tzvetan. "La notion de littrature." In Todorov, Les Genres du discours. Paris: Seuil, 1978. 13-26.* _____. "La notion de littrature." In Todorov, La Notion de littrature et autres essais. Paris: Seuil, 1987. 9-26. Tynianov, Iuri. "O literaturnom fakte." Lef 2 (1924): 100-16. _____. "Le fait littraire." In Tynianov, Formalisme et histoire littraire. Ed. and trans. Catherine Depretto-Genty. Lausanne: L'Age d'Homme, 1991. 212-31.* _____. "El hecho literario." In Antologa del formalismo ruso y el

grupo de Bajtin. Ed. Emil Volek. Madrid: Fundamentos, 1992. 205-26.* Valverde, Jos Mara. La literatura: Qu era y qu es. Barcelona: Montesinos, 1982. van Peer, Willie. "But What Is Literature? Toward a Descriptive Definition of Literature." In The Language and Literature Reader. Ed. Ronald Carter and Peter Stockwell. Abingdon (UK) Routledge, 2008.* Was ist Literatur? Mnchen: K. Albert, l98l Wellek, Ren. "The Mode of Existence of a Literary Work of Art." Southern Review (Spring 1942). _____. "The Mode of Existence of the Literary Work." In Twentieth Century Literary Theory. Ed. Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller. Albany: State U of New York P, 1987. 71-84.* _____. "Literature and its Cognates." In Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Ph. P. Wiener. New York: Scribner's, 1973. 5.3.81. Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas. Washington, D.C., 1871. (Nature of literature) Williams, Raymond. Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1977.* _____. Marxismo y literatura. Trans. Pablo di Masso. Barcelona: Pennsula, 1980. _____. From Marxism and Literature (From Part I, ch. 3, "Literature"). In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.* Woodmansee, Martha. "Speech-Act Theory and the Perpetuation of the Doctrine of Literary Autonomy." Centrum 6.2 (1978): 7589. Zeller, Hans. "A New Approach to the Critical Constitution of Literary Texts." Studies in Bibliography 28 (1975): 231-63.

See also Pragmatics of literature.