A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Literary history:
20th-century literature
General
Early 20th
1st World War
Modernism. See Aesthetics. Movements, styles. Modernism
1930s
1940s
Late 20th-century
1960s
General
Ackroyd, Peter. The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures. Ed. and introd. Thomas Wright. London: Chatto & Windus, 2001.*
Albérès, René Marie. L'Aventure intellectuelle du XXe siècle. Paris: Albin Michel.
_____. La Révolte des écrivains d'aujourd'hui. Paris: Gallimard.
Becker, George J. Realism in Modern Literature. New York: Ungar, 1980.
Bergonzi, Bernard. The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth-Century Literature. New York: St. Martin's, 1988.
_____, ed. The Twentieth Century. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1970. 17-48.
Blöcker, G. Líneas y perfiles de la literatura moderna. Barcelona: Guadarrama.
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.*
Boisdeffre, P. de. Métamorphoses de la littérature. 2 vols. Paris: Alsatia, 1951.
_____. Metamorfosis de la literatura. 3 vols. Barcelona: Guadarrama.
"Books of the Century." Daily Mail 21 July 1998: 8.
Bradbury, M., and J. McFarlane, eds. Modernism: 1890-1930. 1976. New ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.
Brower, Reuben A., ed. Twentieth Century Literature in Retrospect. Cambridge (MA), 1971.
Buitenhuis, Peter. The Great War of Words: Literature as Propaganda, 1914 and After. London: Batsford, 1989.
Butler, Christopher. After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1980.
_____. Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in Europe 1900-1916. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994?
Butor, M. "La littérature d'aujourd'hui." Tel Quel (April 1962).
Carey, John. The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939. London: Faber, 1992.
Carnero, Guillermo. Las armas abisinias: Ensayos sobre literatura y arte del siglo XX. Barcelona: Anthropos, 1989.
Clifford, J. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature and Art. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1988.
Connolly, Cyril. Cien libros clave del movimiento moderno 1880-1950. México, 1993.
D'haen, Theo, and Hans Bertens. Het postmodernisme in de internationale literatuur. 1988.
Eagleton, Terry. Exiles and Emigrés: Studies in Modern Literture. London: Chatto, 1970.
Fletcher, John. New Directions in Literature: Critical Approaches to a Contemporary Phenomenon. London: Calder, 1968.
Frank, Joseph. The Widening Gyre: Crisis and Mastery in Modern Literature. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers UP, 1963.
Gerbod, F., and P. Gerbod. Introduction à la vie littéraire du XXe. siècle. Paris: PUF, 1985.
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1: The War of the Words. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.
_____. No Man's Land, vol. 2: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.
_____. No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the 20th Century, vol. 3: Letters from the Front. New Haven: Yale UP, 1994.
Glicksberg, C. I. The Ironic Vision of Modern Literature. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1969.
Goriély, B. Le avanguardie letterarie in Europa. Milan: Feltrinelli, 1967.
Gould, Eric. Mythical Intentions in Modern Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for their Lives: The Modernist Women 1910-1940. London: Women's Press, 1987.
Howe, Irving. Decline of the New. New York: Harcourt, 1970.
Hoyles, John. The Literary Underground: Writers and the Totalitarian Experience, 1900-1950. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.
Howe, Irving. A World More Attractive: A View of Modern Literature and Politics. 1963.
Humm, Maggie. Border Traffic: Strategies of Contemporary Women Writers. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1991.*
Isaacs, J. An Assessment of 20th Century Literature. 1951.
Jump, Harriet Devine. Diverse Voices: Twentieth-Century Women's Writing from Around the World. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.
Kenner, Hugh. Gnomon: Essays in Contemporary Literature. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958.
Klein, Leonard S., ed. Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. Rev. ed. New York: Ungar, 1983.
Kostelanetz, Richard, ed. Contemporary Literature. New York, 1964.
Langbaum, Robert. The Modern Spirit: Essays on the Continuity of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature. New York: Oxford UP; London: Chatto, 1970.
Magris, Claudio. El anillo de Clarisse: Tradición y nihilismo en la literatura moderna. Barcelona: Península, 1993.
Mauriac, Claude. L'Alittérature contemporaine. Paris: Albin Michel, 1969.
_____. La Aliteratura contemporánea. Trans. Ana Cela. Madrid: Guadarrama, 1972.
Medina Bañón, Raquel, and Barbara Zecchi. Sexualidad y escritura (1850-2000). Anthropos Editorial, 2002.
http://books.google.es/books?id=Xm6rKaN6m3YC
2014
Miller, J. Hillis. Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers. 1965.
Panova, O. Yu., and V. M. Tolmachev, eds. Literatura i ideologiia: Vek dvadtsatyi. Moscow, 2016.
Priestley, J. B. "The Moderns." In Priestley, Literature and Western Man. 1960. London: Readers Union / Heinemann, 1960. 239-353.*
Ricardou, Jean. "Penser la littérature aujourd'hui." Marche romane 21.1/2 (1971): 7-17.
Scott, Nathan A., Jr. Rehearsals of Discomposure: Alienation and Reconciliation in Modern Literature. New York, 1952.
_____. Modern Literature and the Religious Frontier. New York, 1958.
_____. The Broken Center: Studies in the Theological Horizons of Modern Literature. New Haven, 1966.
Shaw, Philip, and Peter Stockwell, eds. Subjectivity and Literature: From the Romantics to the Present Day. London: Pinter, 1991.
Sturrock, John, ed. The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. 1997.*
Symons, Julian. Makers of the New: The Revolution in Literature 1912-1939. London: Deutsch, 1987.
Sypher, Wylie. The Loss of the Self. New York: Random House, 1960.
_____. The Loss of the Self in Modern Literature and Art. New York: Vintage, 1962.
Thody, Philip. Twentieth-Century Literature: Critical Issues and Themes. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1995.
Torre, G. de. Historia de las literaturas de vanguardia. 2 vols. Barcelona: Guadarrama.
Tratner, Michael. Deficits and Desires: Economics and Sexuality in 20th century Literature. Cambridge UP, 2001.
Williams, Keith, and Steven Matthews, eds. Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After. (Studies in 20th Century Literature). Harlow (Essex): Addison Wesley Longman, 1997.*
Wilson, Edmund. Axel's Castle. 1931. London: Fontana-Flamingo, 1979.
_____. Axel's Castle. A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930. New York: Macmillan, Collier Books, 1991.*
_____. El Castillo de Axel. Madrid: Cupsa, 1969.
_____. The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties. New York: Farrar, 1952.
Zhenzhao, P. N. (20th Century Western Literature). 2001. (In Chinese).
Bibliography
Ross, Shawna, et al. "XIV Modern Literature." The Year's Work in English Studies (2022). Online at Oxford Academic.*
https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maac014
2022
Internet resources
18th, 19th and 20th Century Literature Resources.
http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/ modlinks.htm
The Modern World
http://www.themodernword.com/themodword.cfm
2006-04-10
Journals
Anchor Review 2 (June 1957)
Calendar of Modern Letters (April 1927).
Contemporary Literature 23 (1982).
Current Writing 3 (1991).
International Literary Annual 2 (1959).
Journal of Modern Literature
Editor: Morton P. Levitt
921 Anderson Hall
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
USA
Vol. 19.2 (Fall 1995).*
Lettre Internationale (German ed.)
London Magazine
Subscriptions:
30 Thurloe Place
London SW7
UK
The Modern Word.
http://www.themodernword.com/default.aspx
2013
New Writing and Writers 13 (1976).
Notes on Contemporary Literature 22.3 (Carrollton, GA, May 1992).
Scripsi 3.2-3 (1985).
Spiral-Bound Newsletter. (The Modern World).
http://www.themodernword.com/spiral-bound.html
2006-04-10
Studies in Twentieth Century Literature
Editor: Michael Ossar
Eisenhower 104
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-1003
(Submissions in German and Russian)
Editor: Marshall Olds
1111 Olsfathe Hall
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0318
(Submissions in French and Spanish)
USA
Vol. 14.1 (1989).
Twentieth Century Literature
Editor: William Mc Brien
Hofstra University
Hempstead
New York 11550
USA
20th Century Studies 7/8 (1972).
Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature 8.2 (Spring 1967).
Series
(Biblioteca Contemporánea; Clásicos Bestsellers, 32). Luis de Caralt, n.d.*
(Biblioteca de Clásicos Contemporáneos). Valencia: Pre-Textos, c. 2014.*
(Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers). Westport (CT): Greenwood Press.*
(Grandes Escritores Contemporáneos, 8). Series ed. Luis de Castresana and José Gerardo Manrique de Lara. Madrid: EPESA, 1969.*
(Literatura Contemporánea Seix Barral, 18). Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1984.*
(El País: Clásicos del Siglo XX). Madrid: Diario El País, c. 2003.*
(Modern Literature in Perspective). Harlow (Essex): Longman.*
(Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin, c. 1989.*
(Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature 17). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996.*
(Studies in 20th Century Literature). Harlow (Essex): Addison Wesley Longman, 1997.*
Early 20th c.
Albérès, René Marie. L'Aventure intellectuelle du XXe siècle. Paris: Albin Michel, 1950. 1969.
_____. Panorama de las literaturas europeas (1900-1970). Trans. L. Aguado. Madrid: Al-Borak, 1972. Trans. of L'Aventure intellectuelle du XXe. siècle.
Boussart, M., et al. "The First Decades of the Twentieth Century." In A History of European Literature. Ed. Annick Benoit-Dusausoy and Guy Fontaine. London: Routledge, 2000. 531-79.*
Horia, Vintila. Introducción a la Literatura del siglo XX. Madrid: Gredos, 1976.
Kazin, Alfred. "The Background of Modern Literature." 1958. In Kazin, Contemporaries. London: Secker, 1963. 1-25.
Loeffelholz, Mary. Experimental Lives: Women and Literature 1900-1945. New York: Twayne, 1992.
Losada Goya, José Manuel, Kurt Reichenberger and Alfredo Rodríguez López-Vázquez, eds. De Baudelaire a Lorca: Acercamiento a la modernidad literaria. 3 vols. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 1996.*
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques. Vivants Piliers. (Les Lettres nouvelles). Paris: Les Lettres nouvelles, 1960.
Torre, Guillermo de. Literaturas europeas de vanguardia. 1925. Ed. José Luis Calvo Carilla. 2003.
_____. Historia de las literaturas de vanguardia. 2 vols. Barcelona: Guadarrama.
Twentieth Century Authors—First Supplement. 1952.
Wilson, Edmund. "Modern Literature: Between the Whirlpool and the Rock." New Republic 48 (2 Nov. 1926). Rpt. in From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson. Ed. Janet Groth and David Castronovo. Athens (OH): Ohio UP, 1995.
Bibliographies
Seymour-Smith, Andrew Martin. World Authors, 1900-1950. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1996.
1st World War
Barriuso, Ramón. "La literatura y la propaganda gubernamental en la Gran Guerra." XVI Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. Valladolid: Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid, 1994. 509-16.
Modernism. See Movements, Styles, Periods: Modernism.
1920s
Baldick, Chris. Literature of the 1920s: Writers among the Ruins. Vol. 3. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012.
1930s
Althof, R., et al. "The Era of Ideologies (1930-1945)." In A History of European Literature. Ed. Annick Benoit-Dusausoy and Guy Fontaine. London: Routledge, 2000. 580-625.*
Jolas, Eugene. "Frontierless Decade." Editorial. transition (1938).
Wilson, Edmund. The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period. Ed. Leon Edel. 1982.
1940s
Wilson, Edmund. The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period. Ed. Leon Edel. 1983.
Late 20th century
General
Sturrock, John. The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.*
Miscellaneous
Bachmann, Ingeborg. Problemas de la literatura contemporánea: Conferencias de Francfort. Trans. José María Valverde. Madrid: Tecnos, 1990.
De Clercq, M., H. Bousset, et al. "The Postwar Era: 1945-1968." In A History of European Literature. Ed. Annick Benoit-Dusausoy and Guy Fontaine. London: Routledge, 2000. 626-74.*
Clifford, James. Dilemas de la cultura: Antropología, literatura y arte en la perspectiva postmoderna. Trans. Carlos Reynoso. Barcelona: Gedisa, 1995.
Gunning, Dave. Postcolonial Literature. (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature). Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, forthcoming 2010.
Jurak, Mirko, ed. Cross-Cultural Studies: American, Canadian, and European Literatures 1945-1985. Ljubljana: Edward Kardelj University of Ljubljana, 1988.
Kostelanetz, Richard, ed. On Contemporary Literature. New York: Avon, 1969.
Kyndrup, M. "Contemporary Figures and Trends." In A History of European Literature. Ed. Annick Benoit-Dusausoy and Guy Fontaine. London: Routledge, 2000. 675-705.* (Postmodernism, late 20th c.).
Wheen, Francis, ed. Lord Gnome's Literary Companion: The Best of the Literary Review Page of Private Eye. London: Verso, 1995.
Internet resources
Contemporary Literature.
http://www.english.nwu.edu/weblinks/contemporary.html
Journals
Clarín: Revista de nueva literatura 10 (1997).
New Letters: A Magazine of Writing and Art.
Trafika: An International Literary Review
New York and Prague: Trafika, Inc./Modrá Musa Publishers/World Literature Society, Prague.
Janovského, 14,
170 00 Prague 7,
Czech Republic.
Vol. 3 (1993).
Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.
Taylor and Francis – Routledge.
Founding ed. Susheila Nasta.
Department of English and Drama,
Queen Mary and Westfield College,
U of London.
World Literature Today
Series
(Contemporary World Writers). Manchester: Manchester UP.*
1960s
Jason, Philip K."The Sixties Past and Present." Contemporary Literature 36.4 (1995): 702-707.*
1980s
Colby, Vineta. World Authors, 1980-1985. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1991.
1990s
Miller, Laura, ed. The Salon.com Guide to Contemporary Authors. With Adam Begley. New York: Penguin, 2000.*
Huber, Irmtrud. Literature after Postmodernism: Reconstructive Fantasies. Basingstroke: Palgrave, 2014.
