from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and
Philology
http://bit.ly/abibliog
by José
Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Letters
General
Altman,
Janet G. Epistolarity: Approaches to a
Form. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1982.
Derrida,
Jacques. The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud
and Beyond. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.
Raleigh,
Walter. "On Letters and Letter-Writers." In Raleigh, On Writing and Writers. London: Arnold,
1926. 35-102.*
Miscellaneous
Ballestín,
C., and L. P. Rodríguez Suárez, eds. Discursos subterráneos: Pensamiento y epistolaridad. Zaragoza:
Mira, 2009.
Butt, John
E. "Pope Seen through his Letters." BBC broadcast. Listener 20 June 1957.
Dawson,
George. "Letter-Writing and Famous Letter-Writers." In Dawson, Shakespeare and Other Lectures. Ed.
George St Clair. London: Kegan Paul, 1888.
234-47.*
Fludernik, Monika. "Letters as Narrative."
In The Routledge Encyclopedia of
Narrative Theory. Ed. David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan.
Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2005. 277.*
Goldsmith,
Elizabeth C. Writing the Female Voice:
Essays on Epistolary Literature.
London: Pinter, 1989.
Jiménez
Catalán, Rosa María. "Greetings in Letters by EFL Primary School Children.
A Longitudinal Study." Atlantis
38.1 (June 2016): 11-32.*
Johnson,
Samuel. "Criticism on Epistolary Writings." The Rambler (152). 1750-2. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1953.*
Magoudi, Ali. La Lettre fantôme. (Paradoxe). Paris: Minuit.
Oliveira,
Joao Gama, and Albert-László Barabási. "Darwin and Einstein Correspondence
Patterns." Nature 437, 1251
(2005). PDF in
http://www.nd.edu/~networks/Publication%20Categories/publications.htm#anchorpub_5002
2005-12-24
Robertson,
Jean. The Art of Letter Writing. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1942.
Torras
Francés, Meri. Tomando cartas en el asunto:
Las amistades peligrosas de las mujeres con el género epistolar. Zaragoza:
Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2001.
Literature
Chekhov, Anton (Antón P. Chéjov). "Dos
cartas." 1884. In Chéjov, Cuentos
completos (1880-1885). Ed. Paul Viejo. 3rd ed. Madrid: Páginas de Espuma,
2014. 803-4.*
_____. "Novísimo epistolario." 1884. In
Chéjov, Cuentos completos (1880-1885).
Ed. Paul Viejo. 3rd ed. Madrid: Páginas de Espuma, 2014. 959-62.*
Dixon,
Sarah. "Lines Occasion'd by the Burning of Some Letters." In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: The Annotated
Anthology. Ed. David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. 3rd ed. Chichester:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. 323.*
Finch, Anne
(Countess of Winchilsea). "To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of
Writing Letters." In Eighteenth-Century
Poetry: The Annotated Anthology. Ed. David Fairer and Christine Gerrard.
3rd ed. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. 37-39.*
James,
Henry. "A Bundle of Letters." In James, Complete Stories (II) 1874-1884. (The Library of America). New
York: Literary Classics of the United States, c. 1999.
Nabokov,
Vladimir. "Pis'ma." Poem. Written Berlin, 23 Jan. 1923. Rpt. in Stikhi.
85.
_____.
"Letters." Trans. Brian Boyd and Dmitri Nabokov. In Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and
Uncollected Writings. Ed. Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle. Trans. Dmitri
Nabokov. London: Allen Lane / Penguin Press, 2000. 108.*
Richardson,
Samuel. Letters Written to and for
Particular Friends, on the most important Occasions. Directing not only the
Requisite Style and Forms to be observed in Writing Familiar Letters; but how
to think and act justly and prudently, in the common Concerns of Human Life. 1741.
_____. Familiar Letters on Important Occasions.
Ed. B. W. Downs. 1928. (= Letters Written
to and for Particular Friends…).
_____. Familiar Letters on Important Occasions.
4th ed. In Literature Online:
Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Chadwyck-Healey.
Wilde,
Oscar. "On the Sale by Auction of Keats's Love Letters." Sonnet. In The Portable Oscar Wilde. Ed. Richard
Aldington and Stanley Weintraub. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981. 665-66.*
Music
Foly,
Liane. "Au fur et à mesure." Music video. 1990. YouTube (pottepel) 15 July 2009.*
https://youtu.be/ihRIlWTxqz8
2018
Series
(Illustrated
Letters). Collins and Brown.
Letters in literature
Goldberg,
Jonathan. "Rebel Letters: Postal Effects from Richard II to Henry IV."
Renaissance Drama 19 (1988): 3-28.
_____.
"Rebel Letters: Postal Effects from Richard
II to Henry IV." In Postmodern Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen
Orgel and Sean Keilen. New York and London: Garland, 1999. 127-52.*
Stewart,
Alan. Shakespeare's Letters. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 2008.
See also
Epistolary fiction.
Letters:
Ages
Ancient
Audio
Guillén,
Claudio. "(I) De la oralidad a la escritura: Los
orígenes." Audio. Lecture at Fundación Juan March 5 Feb. 1991.
(Correspondencia epistolar y literatura). Online at Fundación
Juan March.*
https://www.march.es/conferencias/anteriores/voz.aspx?p1=21990&l=1
2018
Medieval
Breitow,
A. Die
Entwicklung mittelaltericher Briefsteller bis zur Mitte des 12. Jahrhunderts. Greifswald, 1908.
Anthologies
Orejudo,
Antonio, ed. Cartas de batalla. 1993.
(Critical edition of medieval challenge letters).
Early Modern
Daybnell, James, ed. Early Modern Women's Letter Writing,
1450-1700. (Early Modern Literature in History). Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2001.
Letters:
Areas
English
Classical guides
The Experienc'd Secretary. Letter writing guide.1699.
Fulwood,
William. (Guide to letter-writing). 1568.
The Lover's Secretary. Letter writing guide.1692
Richardson,
Samuel. Letters Written to and for
Particular Friends, Directing the Requisite Style and Forms . . . in Writing
Familiar Letters. 1741.
The Secretary Study. Letter writing guide.1652.
The Young Secretary Guide. Letter writing guide.1687.
Contemporary guides
Alexander,
L. G. Essay and Letter Writing. London:
Longman, 1965.*
Burbidge,
Nicky, Peta Gray, Sheila Levy, and Mario Rinvolucri. Letters. (Resource Books for
Teachers). Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.*
Pitman's Commercial Correspondence and
Commercial English. Rev.
ed. London: Pitman & Sons, 1928.*
General
Hornbeak,
Katherine. "Complete Letter-Writer in English, 1568-1800." Smith College Studies in Modern Language
15 (1934): 1-150.
Strachey, Lytton. "English Letter Writers." 1905. In Strachey,
Characters and Commentaries. London:
Chatto and Windus, 1933. 3-68.*
Miscellaneous
Ellis,
Jonathan, ed. Letter Writing among Poets:
From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2015.
Anthologies
Kermode,
Frank (Sir), and Anita Kermode, eds. The
Oxford Book of Letters. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.
Series
(English
Letters). Intelex / Oxford UP, c. 2004.
http://www.nlx.oup.com
2004.
Medieval
Nevalainen,
Terttu, and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg. "Constraints on Politeness: The
Pragmatics of Address Formulae in Early English Correspondence." In Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic
Developments in the History of English. Ed. Andreas Jucker. (Pragmatics
& Beyond, ns 35). .Amsterdam : John Benjamins. 1995. 541-601.
Internet resources
Corpus of Early English Correspondence.
http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/doe/projects/ceec
Early modern / 16th century
Fitzmaurice,
Susan M. The Familiar Letter in Early
Modern English: A Pragmatic Approach. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002.
Lerer,
Seth. Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry
VIII. (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture). Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1997.
Stewart,
Alan. Shakespeare's Letters. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 2008.
Strachey, Lytton. "The Elizabethans." (Letters). 1905. In
Strachey, Characters and Commentaries. London:
Chatto and Windus, 1933. 3-10.*
17th century
Prieto
Pablos, Juan Antonio. "Diarios y cartas del
siglo XVII." In Estudios literarios
ingleses: La Restauración. Ed. Bernd Dietz. Madrid: Cátedra, 1986. 245-64.*
Thompson,
E. N. S. "Character Books and Familiar Letters." In Thompson,The Seventeenth-Century English Essay.
Iowa City (IA), 1926.
Routh,
Harold V. "XVI. The Advent of Modern Thought in Popular Literature. The
Witch Controversy. Pamphleteers." In Cavalier
and Puritan. 1911. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Vol. VII of The Cambridge History of English and
American Literature. An Encyclopedia
in Eighteen Volumes. Ed. A. W. Ward et al. New York: Putnam's; Cambridge,
England: Cambridge UP, 1907–21. Electronic edition
(Bartleby.com).* (1. Demonology in
the Middle Ages; 2. Belief in witchcraft; 3. George Gifford's Dialogues of Witches; 4. King James's Daemonologie; 5. William Perkin's Art of Witch craft; 6. Witch-hunting; 7.
Astrological treatises; 8. Rosicrucianism; 9. The history of the broadside; 10.
The street ballad and other forms of popular literature. 11. Cavalier and
Roundhead satires; 12. Social pamphlets; 13. Coffee-houses; 14. Letter writing;
15. Romances of chivalry; 16. The essay; 17. Humanists; 18. John Wagstaffe's Question of Witchcraft).
http://www.bartleby.com/217/
2018
18th century
Davis, Herbert. "The Correspondence of the Augustans." In Essays in English Literature from the
Renaissance to the Victorian Age: Presented to A. S. P. Woodhouse. Ed. M.
MacLure and F. W. Watt. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1964. 195-212.*
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.*
19th century
Abad García, María Pilar. La unidad en la obra de Gerard Manley
Hopkins: Su literatura epistolar. Ph.D. diss. Universidad de Valladolid 1983. Secretariado de
Publicaciones, Universidad de Valladolid, 1984.*
20th century
Faya Cerqueiro, Fátima María.
"Who Requests Whom and How They Do It: Use of Request Markers in Late
Modern English Letters." In Proceedings
from the 31st AEDEAN Conference. Ed. M. J. Lorenzo Modia et al. CD-ROM: A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña, 2008. 269-78.*
Horrillo Godino,
Zoraida. "Pen
and Lipstick: British Women's Letter and Diary Writing during WWII." In Proceedings
of the 29th AEDEAN Conference: Universidad de Jaén 15 al 20 diciembre 2005.
CD-ROM. Ed. Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes et al. Jaén: AEDEAN / Servicio de
Publicaciones U de Jaén, 2006. 205-11.*
US Letters
19th
century
Redkey, Edwin S. A Grand Army of
Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861-1865.
(Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 63). Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1993.
20th century
Quesenberry, Krista. "From the Hemingway Letters Project." Hemingway Review 37.2 (2018): 138-48.*
Spanier, Sandra. "4.
Letters." In Ernest Hemingway in
Context. Ed. Debra A. Moddelmog and Suzanne del Gizzo. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 2013. 33-42.*
French
letters
17th century
Puget de la
Serre, Jean. Sécretaire de la Cour.
Writing guide for letters.
_____. Sécretaire à la mode. Letter writing
guide. 1641.
German
letters
Medieval
Schecker,
Michael. "Zwei Aspekte der Texttypik: Funktionalität und Kulturelle
Expressivität. Exemplarisch erläutert am Beispiel des spätmittelalterlichen
Kaufmannsbriefs." In Texte-Konstitution,
Verarbeitung, Typik. Ed. Susanne Michaelis and Doris Tophinke. Munich:
Lincom Europa.
17th century
Krummacher,
H. H., ed. Briefe deutscher
Barockautoren: Probleme ihrer Erfassung und Erschließung. Hamburg:
Hauswedell, 1978.
19th century
Benjamin,
Walter, ed. (Ps. Detlev Holz). Deutsche Menschen. (German letters
1783-1833). Switzerland, 1936. Reisssued in Germany.
Spanish
letters
21st
century
Video
Royuela,
Alberto, and Juan Martínez Grasa. "Carta
certificada de Alberto Royuela al fiscal José María Mena." Video. YouTube (Expediente Royuela) 28 Nov.
2022.* (José Mª Mena, Rafael García Ruiz, Jorge Irigaray García de la Serrana,
Carlos Jiménez Villarejo, Carlos Morín, mafia, organized crime, PSOE).
https://youtu.be/P54LDqfO7TE
2022
Latin
American
Fernández, Teodosio. "Sobre la correspondencia juvenil de Jorge Luis
Borges." In Cartografía literaria: En homenaje al
profesor José Romera Castillo. Ed. G. Laín Corona and R. Santiago Nogales.
Madrid: Visor, 2018. 1.513-27. Online at Academia.*
https://www.academia.edu/41019749/
2019
Greek
letters
Barrio Vega, Mª Luisa
del. "La epístola como elemento constitutivo de
otra obra literaria en la Literatura Griega." Epos 7 (1991): 13-26.*
Latin
letters
Erasmus of
Rotterdam. Libellus de conscribendis
epistolis. 1521.
