A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Biography
General
Miscellaneous
Specific topics
Autobiography. See Biographics. Autobiography.
Biographers
Life stories
Narrativity, literariness, fictionality-factualness
Obituaries
Ages
Areas
General
Atlas, James. The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale. Pantheon, 2017.
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.
Denzin, Norman K. Interpretive biography. Newbury Park (CA) and London: Sage, 1989.
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.
Humphrey, Richard. "Family Chronicle." In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Ed. David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2005. 158-59.*
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.
Baroja, Pío. "Las biografías y los ensayos." In Pío Baroja: Obras Completas XVI: Obra dispersa y epistolario: Textos dispersos - Páginas de autocrítica - Prólogo a textos ajenos - Artículos - Epistolario selecto. Ed. José-Carlos Mainer. Rev. Juan Carlos Ara Torralba. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 2000. 1587.
Beck, Julie. "Life Stories." The Atlantic 10 Aug. 2015.*
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
Durán, Isabel, and John Hazlett. "The Power of (Auto)Biography in Recent Literary Studies." In Power and Culture in America: Forms of Interaction and Renewal. Actas del V Congreso SAAS (Salamanca, 2001). Salamanca: Almar, 2002. 381-95.*
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 Gual, Carlos. "Luces y sombras: Novela histórica y biografía apologética." In García Gual, La luz de los lejanos faros: Una defensa apasionada de las humanidades. Barcelona: Planeta-Ariel, 2017. 157-68.*
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.*
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." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 19 June 2008.
http://garciala.blogia.com/2008/061901-potocki-formalizacion-del-trayecto-vital.php
2008
_____. "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
_____. "Potocki: Formalización del trayecto vital (Narratología encontrada en Zaragoza)." Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 20 June 2018.*
https://www.ibercampus.es/potocki-formalizacion-del-trayecto-vital-37007_16.htm
2018
_____. "Short Bio 2.0." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 14 April 2015.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/short-bio-20.html
2015
Gornick, Vivian. "Other People's Lives: What Makes Biography Good?" Rev. of The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale. By James Atlas. Boston Review 13 Oct. 2017.*
http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/vivian-gornick-james-atlas-shadow-garden
2017
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.*
Gustavo Zonana, Víctor. "De viris pessimis: Biografías imaginarias de Marcel Schwob, Jorge Luis Borges y Juan Rodolfo Wilcock." Rilce 16.3 (2000): 673-90.*
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
Kindt, Tom. "Biography." In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Ed. David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2005. 42-44.*
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.
Linde, Charlotte. Life Stories. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
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.*
Mitchell, Orm. "Rainbow and Granite: The Biographer's Charybdis and Scylla." In Autobiographical and Biographical Writing in the Commonwealth. Ed. Doireann MacDermott. Sabadell: AUSA, 1984. 169-74.*
Orazi, Verónica. "(Auto)biografía ficcional: Helena de Troya, Julieta Capuleto, Teresa de Ávila." In Teatro, (auto)biografía y autoficción (2000-2018) en homenaje al profesor José Romera Castillo (Tomo III). Ed. G. Laín Corona and R. Santiago Nogales. Madrid: Visor, 2018.
Parker, David. The Self in Moral Space: Life Narrative and the Good. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007.
Pérez Bowie, José Antonio. "Sobre el teatro biográfico y su relación con el biopic. Una propuesta metodológica." In Teatro, (auto)biografía y autoficción (2000-2018) en homenaje al profesor José Romera Castillo (Tomo III). Ed. G. Laín Corona and R. Santiago Nogales. Madrid: Visor, 2018.
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.
Squire, Corinne, ed. Stories Changing Lives: Narratives and Paths toward Social Change. (Explorations in Narrative Psychology). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2021.
Stephen, Leslie. Prefatory chapter on biographical criticsm, in The Works of Samuel Richardson. Ed. Leslie Stephen. 12 vols. 1883-84.
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.*
Wallace-Crabbe, Chris. "Beginning." In Autobiographical and Biographical Writing in the Commonwealth. Ed. Doireann MacDermott. Sabadell: AUSA, 1984. 235-40.*
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.
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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.*
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2010
_____. "Biography." From A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology. Online at Docslib. 2018.*
https://docslib.org/a-bibliography-of-literary-theory-criticism-and-philology-s30
2022
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
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:
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
DBe (Diccionario Biográfico Electrónico). Real Academia de la Historia.*
2022
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.
2008
_____. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. 60 vols. Print and online:
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.
Michaud. Biographie Universelle.
Nouvelle Biographie Générale. Didot, 1860.
Outstanding People of the 20th Century. (Cambridge: International Biographical Centre, 1999.
Who's Who in France
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.*
2010
Encyclopedia of World Biography.
http://www.notablebiographies.com
2010
Facebook Timeline
http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline
2011
The Jacana Great Lives Site.
http://www.jacanaent.com/Biographies/
2017
Personajes.biz: Biografías de personajes famosos y históricos
2011
Prabook (World Biographical Encyclopedia).*
https://prabook.com/web/jose_angel_garcia.landa/150510
2022
Wikipedia. "DARPA LifeLog." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog
2022
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)
2012
Journal of Narrative and Life History 7.1-4 (1997).
Memoria: Revista de Estudios Biográficos. Ed. Anna Caballé (1996-2007).
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 49 (1941).
Prizes
Premio Comillas de Biografía
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.
Societies and Institutions
Center for Biographical Research, U of Hawaii, Honolulu.
Unidad de Estudios Biográficos, U de Barcelona (dir. Anna Caballé).
Real Academia de la Historia. Diccionario Biográfico. Online ed (2021): DB-e.*
2021
Video
Pulido Mendoza, Manuel. "¿Es la biografía un género literario o histórico?" Video lecture. Medium 26 April 2018.*
2018
See also Life (Human life experience); People; Individuals.
Biography: Specific topics
Biographers
Boyd, Brian."A Biographer's Life." 2001. In Boyd, Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays. New York: Columbia UP, 2011. 8-18.*
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.*
Miller, J. Hillis. "History, Narrative, Responsibility: 'The Aspern Papers'." In Miller, Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James. New York: Fordham UP, 2005. 12-29.*
Snipes, Wilson. "The Biographer as a Center of Reference." Biography 5.3 (1982): 215-25.
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.
Literature
Amis, Kingsley. The Biographer's Moustache. Novel. London: Flamingo, 1995.
Byatt, A. S. Possession: A Romance. London: Chatto, 1990. Booker Prize.
_____. Possession: A Romance. London: Vintage, 1991.*
_____. Possession. New York: Random House-Vintage International.
_____.The Biographer's Tale. Novel. London: London: Chatto and Windus, 2000.*
Golding, William. The Paper Men. Novel. London: Faber, 1984.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Dar. [= The Gift]. Novel. 1936. Pub. serially. Sovremennye Zapiski 1937-38.
_____. Dar. New York: Chekhov, 1952.
_____. The Gift. Trans. Michael Scammell and Dmitri Nabokov with Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Putnam's, 1963.
_____. The Gift. Popular Library, 1963.
_____. The Gift. 1938. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
_____. The Gift. London: Granada.
_____. The Gift. New York: Random House-Vintage International [c. 1990?].
_____. Le Don. Paris: Gallimard, 1967.
_____. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. English novel. Norfolk (CT) and London: New Directions, 1941.
_____. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Introd. Conrad Brenner. Norfolk (CT): New Directions, 1959.
_____. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960.
_____. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964.
_____. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Afterword by John Lanchester. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995.*
_____. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. New York: Random House-Vintage International [c. 1990?].
_____. La Vraie Vie de Sebastian Knight. Trans. Yvonne Davert. Paris: Albin Michel, 1951.
_____. La Vraie vie de Sebastian Knight. Paris: Gallimard, 1962.
Life Stories
Linde, Charlotte. "Life Story." In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Ed. David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2005. 277-78.*
Narrativity, literariness, fictionality-factualness
Rader, Ralph. "Literary Form in Factual Narrative: The Example of Boswell's Johnson." In Essays in Eighteenth Century Biography. Ed. P. B. Daghlian. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.
_____. "Literary Form in Factual Narrative: The Example of Boswell's Johnson." In Boswell's Life of Johnson: New Questions, New Answers. Ed. John A. Vance. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1985.
_____. "Literary Form in Factual Narrative: The Example of Boswell's Johnson." In Modern Critical Interpretations: Johnson and Boswell. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
Matthews, W., and R. Rader, eds. Autobiography, Biography, and the Novel. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, 1973.
Obituaries
Corona Marzol, Isabel. "Dying for More: Generic Functionality and the Representation of Social Actors in British and Spanish Obituaries Headlines." In Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos) / Proceedings of the 5th International AELFE Conference). Ed. Mª Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría, Ramón Plo Alastrué and Claus Peter Neumann. CD-ROM. Zaragoza: AELFE / Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2005. 119-26.*
Fernández Toledo, Piedad. "La apropiación genérica en las esquelas: ¿están cambiando los tiempos?" In Homenaje a Francisco Gutiérrez Díez. Ed. Rafael Monroy. Murcia: Edit.um, 2013. 117-40.*
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
2006-07-08
_____. "Obit." In García Landa, Vanity Fea Feb. 2008. (Alain Robbe-Grillet, Douglas Johnson).
http://garciala.blogia.com/2008/022002-obit.php
2008
Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer. "Over Our Dead Bodies." Dissent (Winter 2014).*
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/over-our-dead-bodies
2014
Films
The Final Cut. Writer and 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
ObituariesHelp.org.*
2020
Obituaries Today
http://www.obituariestoday.com/
2009
Women's biographies
Booth, Alison. "Screenshots in the Longue Durée: Feminist Narratology, Digital Humanities, and Collective Biographies of Women." In Narrative Theory Unbound: Feminist and Queer Interventions. Ed Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2015. 169-93.*
https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/68569/Warhol_Lanser_Book4CD_W.pdf
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Biography: Ages
Classical Antiquity
White, C., trans. Early Christian Lives. London: Penguin, 1998.
18th century
Daghlian, P. B., ed. Essays in Eighteenth Century Biography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.
20th century
Romera Castillo, José, and Francisco Gutiérrez Carbajo, eds. Biografías Literarias (1975-1997). Madrid: Visor Libros, 1998.
Series
(Biografías Espasa – Nuestro Tiempo). Gen. ed. Ricardo López de Uralde. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, c. 1992.*
21st century
Oró-Piqueras, Maricel. "Fictionalising Biography Throughout the Life-course: Creative Memory in Penelope Lively's Making It Up." In Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer. Bern: Peter Lang, 2016. 81-102.*
English Biographies
General
Dunn, Waldo H. English Biography. 1916.
Evans, Bergen. "Dr. Johnson's Theory of Biography." Review of English Studies 10 (1934): 301-10.*
Longaker, Maria. English Biography in the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia, 19- ?.
Major, John C. The Role of Personal Memoirs in English Biography and Novel. Philadelphia, 1935.
Saintsbury, George. "Some Great Biographies." Macmillan's Magazine (June 1892). In Saintsbury, Essays in English Literature 1780-1860. Second series. London: Dent, 1895. 383-414.
Stauffer, Donald A. English Biography Before 1700. Cambridge (MA), 1930.
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
Medieval
Boffey, J. "Middle English Lives." In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Ed. D. Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
17th century
Faller, Lincoln B. Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England. 1988.
Literature
Aubrey, John. 'Brief Lives,' chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696. Edited from the Authors's MSS. Ed. Andrew Clark. With Facsimiles. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898.
_____. 'Brief Lives,' chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696. Edited from the Authors's MSS. Ed. Andrew Clark (MA Lincoln College, Oxford, MA and LLD., St. Andrew's). With Facsimiles. Vol. I (A-H). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898. Online facsimile at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/brieflives01clargoog
2020
_____. Brief Lives. Ed. O. L. Dick. 1949. Rpt. Penguin.
_____. Brief Lives. 2 vols. Ed. Andrew Clark. Oxford: Clarendon, 1898.
_____. Brief Lives. Ed. R. W. Barber. London: Boydell and Brewer.
_____. Aubrey's Brief Lives. Ed. Oliver Lawson Dick. London, 1949; Ann Arbor, 1957.
_____. Aubrey's Brief Lives. Ed. Oliver Lawson Dick. (Penguin Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
_____. Brief Lives. In Brief Lives and Other Selected Writings. Ed. Anthony Powell. London: Cresset Press, 1949.*
18th century
Dutoit, Thomas. "Vérité animale et hétéro-biographique. The Mysteries of Udolpho d'Ann Radcliffe." In L'animal autobiographique: Autour de Jacques Derrida. Ed. Marie-Louise Mallet. Paris: Galilée / CNL, 1999. 369-400.*
Cafarelli, Annette Wheeler. Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from Johnson to De Quincey. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1990.
Faller, Lincoln B. Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England. 1988.
Rawlings, Philip, ed. Drunks, Whores, and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century. London: Routledge, 1992.
Sherburne, George, and Donald F. Bond. "Biography and Letter-Writing." In The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1789). Vol. 3 of A Literary History of England. Ed. A. C. Baugh. London: Routledge, 1948. 2nd ed. 1967. 1063-80.*
Stauffer, Donald A. The Art of Biography in Eighteenth Century England. 2 vols. Princeton, 1941.
Wendorf, Richard. The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and Georgian England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Audio
Martínez-Lage, Miguel.j "La génesis de la biografía moderna, I: La aristocracia intelectual del siglo XVIII: Samuel Johnson." Audio lecture. Fundación Juan March 9 Oct. 2007.*
http://www.march.es/conferencias/anteriores/voz.aspx?id=1925&l=1
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19th century
Amigoni, David. Victorian Biography: Intellectuals and the Ordering of Discourse. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheathsheaf, 1993.
Brake, Laurel. "The Serialisation of Books: Macmillan's English Men of Letters Series and the New Biography." In Brake, Print in Transition, 1850-1910. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2001. 52-66.*
Cafarelli, Annette Wheeler. Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from Johnson to De Quincey. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1990.
Lockridge, Laurence S., John Maynard and Donald D. Stone, eds. Nineteenth Century Lives: Essays Presented to Jerome Hamilton Buckley. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.
20th century
Ward, A. C. "Travellers and Biographers." In Ward, Twentieth-Century Literature 1901-1950. London: Methuen, 1956. 219-40.
American
Storut, Cushing. The Veracious Imagination: Essays in American History, Literature, and Biography. Middletown (CT): Wesleyan UP, 1981.
Internet resources
American National Biography Online.
2004
Other Biographies in English
General
MacDermott, Doireann. "Introduction." In Autobiographical and Biographical Writing in the Commonwealth. Ed. Doireann MacDermott. Sabadell: AUSA, 1984. 7-14.*
_____, ed. Autobiographical and Biographical Writing in the Commonwealth. Sabadell: AUSA, 1984.*
Australia
Internet resources
Australian Biography Project.*
https://www.australianbiography.gov.au
2019
Canada
Delgado, Ana Beatriz. "Biographers, Biographees: Authorial Issues in Canadian Literary Biographies." 2003. In Actas del XXVII Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN / Proceedings of the 27th International AEDEAN Conference. Ed. Antonio R[odríguez] Celada, Daniel Pastor García, and Pedro Javier Pardo García. CD-ROM. Salamanca: Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Universidad de Salamanca) / Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, 2004.*
Ireland
Harmon, Maurice. "Literary Biography in Twentieth-Century Ireland." In The Genius of Irish Prose. Ed. Augustine Martin. Dublin: Mercier, 1985.155-64.*
French biographies
Jefferson, Ann. Biography and the Question of Literature in France. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.
Spanish biographies
Miscellaneous
Miguel Miguel, Miguel Ángel. "Biografías para una historia de España: Una propuesta CLIL/AICLE para enseñar Lengua e Historia." MA diss. U Antonio de Nebrija, 2010. Online at Redined.*
https://redined.educacion.gob.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11162/90825/00820113013558.pdf
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Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Diccionario Biográfico Español. 50 vols. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, 2011-2012.
Vidas de españoles célebres. 3 vols. 1807, 1830, 1833.
Internet resources
Real Academia de la Historia.*
2019
16th c.
Castellano López, Abigaíl, and Adrián J. Sáez, ed. Vidas en armas: Biografías militares del Siglo de Oro. (Anejos de Etiópicas, 4). Huelva: Departamento de Filología de la Universidad de Huelva - Etiópicas, 2019. Online at Academia.*
https://www.academia.edu/40233605/
2019
Galván, Luis. "Autorreferencia y autonomía: Las vidas de soldados en la constitución del sistema literario moderno." In Vidas en armas: Biografías militares del Siglo de Oro. Ed. Abigaíl López Castellano and Adrián J. Sáez. Huelva: Etiópicas, 2019. 49-70.*
https://www.academia.edu/40233605/
2019
20th c.
Pulido Mendoza, Manuel. Plutarco de moda: La biografía literaria en España, 1900-1950. Editora Regional de Extremadura.
21st c.
Freear-Papio, Helen. "Género, raza y esperanza: el teatro biográfico feminista de Itziar Pascual." In Teatro, (auto)biografía y autoficción (2000-2018) en homenaje al profesor José Romera Castillo (Tomo III). Ed. G. Laín Corona and R. Santiago Nogales. Madrid: Visor, 2018.
Lagos Gismero, Manuel. "Zarzuelas y musicales de inspiración biográfica: vidas en solfa a la escena (2000-2017)." In Teatro, (auto)biografía y autoficción (2000-2018) en homenaje al profesor José Romera Castillo (Tomo III). Ed. G. Laín Corona and R. Santiago Nogales. Madrid: Visor, 2018.
Soriano García, María Victoria. "La biografía y la autobiografía en las óperas del siglo XXI: Ainadamar y La conquista de México en el Teatro Real." In Teatro, (auto)biografía y autoficción (2000-2018) en homenaje al profesor José Romera Castillo (Tomo III). Ed. G. Laín Corona and R. Santiago Nogales. Madrid: Visor, 2018.
Vicente Gómez, Francisco. "Vidas a la escena (ajenas y propias). La (auto)biografía como procedimiento dramático: de La comedia científica o el café de Negrín, de José Ramón Fernández a Los Gondra (una historia vasca), de Borja Ortiz de Gondra." In Teatro, (auto)biografía y autoficción (2000-2018) en homenaje al profesor José Romera Castillo (Tomo III). Ed. G. Laín Corona and R. Santiago Nogales. Madrid: Visor, 2018.
Other areas
Greek biography
Classical
García Gual, Carlos. "De la historia crítica a la biografía novelesca." In García Gual, Historia, novela y tragedia. Madrid: Alianza, 2006. 73-80.* (Thucydides).
_____. "De la biografía y de Alejandro." In García Gual, Historia, novela y tragedia. Madrid: Alianza, 2006. 81-95.*
_____. "Elementos novelescos en la Vida de Alejandro del Pseudo Calístenes." In García Gual, Historia, novela y tragedia. Madrid: Alianza, 2006. 140-49.*
Latin biographies
Browning, Robert. "XXXVII. Biografía." (El Bajo Imperio). In Historia de la literatura clásica (Cambridge University) II: Literatura latina. Ed. E. J. Kenney and W. V. Clausen. Madrid: Gredos, 1989. 783-91.*
Provençal biographies
Medieval
Boutière, Jean, and A.-H. Schutz. Biographies des troubadours: Textes provençaux des XIIIe et XIVe siècles. Rev. ed. Jean Boutière, with Iréné Cluzel. Paris: Nizet, 1964.
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