A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Theory / Theories
NB: In this list, the word "theory" is not used in the moronically restricted sense of "(post-)structuralist literary and cultural theory." There are separate lists on that.
Theory
Theories
On Metatheory
Theory
Alonso, Enrique. "Teoría." In Compendio de Lógica, Argumentación y Retórica. Ed. Luis Vega Reñón and Paula Olmos Gómez. Madrid: Trotta, 2011. 3rd ed. 2016. 583-85.*
Althusser, Louis. Sobre el trabajo teórico: dificultades y recursos. (Cuadernos Anagrama 9). Barcelona: Anagrama, 1970.
_____. Para una crítica de la práctica teórica. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1974.
Beaugrande, R. de. "Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Disconnection, Conflict, or Dialectic?" Applied Linguistics 18.3 (1997): 279-313.
Bhabha, Homi K. "The Commitment to Theory." In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.*
Blum, A. "Theorizing." In Understanding Everyday Life. Ed. J. D. Douglas. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971.
Blum, Alan, and Peter McHugh, eds. Friends, Enemies, and Strangers: Theorizing in Art, Science, and Everyday Life. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1979.
Blumenberg, Hans. La risa de la muchacha tracia: Una protohistoria de la teoría. Valencia: Pre-textos, 2000.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Outline of a Theory of Practice. 1972. Trans. Richard Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1977. 1982. 1986.
Bueno, G. Teoría y praxis. Oviedo: Ediciones de la Universidad, 1975.
Bunge, Mario. Teoría y realidad. Barcelona: Ariel, 1972. 1985.
Castoriadis, Cornelius. "II. Théorie et projet révolutionnaire." In Castoriadis, L'Institution imaginaire de la société. Paris: Seuil, 1975. Rpt. (Points; Essais, 383). 1999. 105-70.* (1. Praxis et projet [Savoir et faire. Praxis et projet]; 2. Racines du projet révolutionnaire [Les racines sociales du projet révolutionnaire. Révolution et rationalisation. Révolution et totalité sociale. Racines subjectives du projet révolutionnaire. Logique du projet révolutionnaire]; 3. Autonomie et aliénation [Sens de l'autonomie. —l'Individu. Dimension sociale de l'autonomie. L'hétéronomie instituée: l'aliénation comme phénomène social. Le 'communisme' dans son acception mythique]).
Christian, Barbara T. "The Race for Theory". Cultural Critique 6 (1987): 51-63.
_____ "The Race for Theory." In Literary Criticism and Theory. Ed. R. C. Davis and L. Finke. London: Longman, 1989. 842-51.*
_____. "The Race for Theory." In Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
_____. "The Race for Theory." In Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer. 3rd ed. White Plains (NY): Longman, 1994. 123-31.*
_____. "The Race for Theory." In Gender and Theory. Ed. L. Kaufman. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
_____. "The Race for Theory." In The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. London: Routledge, 1995. 457-60.*
_____. "The Race for Theory." In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.*
Croce, Benedetto. "The Theoretic Activity and the Practical Activity." In Croce, Aesthetic. London: Vision Press / Peter Owen, 1967. 47-54.*
de Man, Paul. "The Resistance to Theory." Yale French Studies 63 (1982): 3-20.
_____. "The Resistance to Theory." In de Man, The Resistance to Theory. Introd. Wlad Godzich. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1986. 1-26.*
_____. "The Resistance to Theory." Select. in Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Ed. K. M. Newton. London: Macmillan, 1988. 158-64.*
_____. "The Resistance to Theory." In Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Ed. David Lodge. London: Longman, 1988. 354-71.*
_____. "The Resistance to Theory." In Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer. 3rd ed. White Plains (NY): Longman, 1994. 93-108.*
_____. "The Resistance to Theory." In Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. Ed. Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh. 3rd ed. London: Arnold, 1996. 198-214.*
_____. The Rhetoric of Romanticism. New York: Columbia UP, 1984.
_____. The Resistance to Theory. Introd. Wlad Godzich. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1986
_____. La resistencia a la teoría. (Visor, Literatura y debate crítico, 4). Madrid: Visor.
Evans, Mary. "In Praise of Theory." Feminist Review 10 (1982): 61-74.
_____. "In Praise of Theory: The Case for Women's Studies." In Theories of Women's Studies. Ed. Gloria Bowles and Renate Duelli Klein. London: Routledge, 1983.Fildes, Sarah. "The Inevitability of Theory." Feminist Review 14 (1983): 62-70.
Fish, Stanley E. "Pragmatics and Literary Theory 1: Consequences." Critical Inquiry 11.3 (1985): 432-58.
_____. "La théorie est sans conséquences." Critique 41 (1985). Trans. of "Pragmatics and Literary Theory 1: Consequences."
Foster, Lawrence, and J. W. Swanson, eds. Experience and Theory. Amherst (MA), 1970.
Habermas, Jürgen.Theorie und Praxis. 4th ed. Frankfurt a/M: Suhrkamp, 1971.
_____. Theory and Practice. Trans. John Viertel. Boston: Beacon, 1973.
Herbert, Stacey, and Bess Rose, eds. The Practice of Theory: Questions on the Roles and Uses of Theory in the Arts and Sciences. 1999 special issue of theory@buffalo. . Comparative Lit. Dep. 638 Clemens Hall, SUNY Amherst, NY 14260 (barose@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Kant, Immanuel. Théorie et pratique. (GF 689). Paris: Garnier-Flammarion.
_____. (Emmanuel Kant). Teoría y práctica. Ed. Roberto Rodríguez Aramayo. Madrid: Tecnos, 1986.
_____. Teoría y Práctica. Madrid: Alianza, 2004.
_____. "En torno al tópico: 'eso vale para la teoría pero no sirve de nada para la práctica'." Trans. and notes by Roberto Rodríguez Aramayo. In Kant, Fundamentación para una metafísica de las costumbres. Crítica de la Razón Práctica. En torno al tópico: "Eso vale para la teoría, pero no sirve de nada en la práctica". Hacia la paz perpetua. Sobre un presunto derecho de mentir por filantropía. Introd. Maximiliano Hernández. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Kant, II). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA, 2014. 255-98.*
Knapp, Steven, and Walter Benn Michaels. "Against Theory." Critical Inquiry 8 (1982): 723-42.
_____. "Against Theory." In Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism. Ed. W. J. T. Mitchell. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985. 11-30.
_____. "Against Theory." In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.
Miller, J. Hillis. "Theory and Practice: Response to Vincent Leitch." Critical Inquiry 6.4 (1980): 609-14.
O'Neill, P. "In Defence of Theory." PACE (SCEPCHE Newsletter) 3 (1991): 9-11.
Thompson, E. P. The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays. London: Merlin, 1978.
Todd, Richard, and Luisa Flora, eds. Theme Parks, Rainforests and Sprouting Wastelands: European Essays on Theory and Performance in Contemporary British Fiction. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998.
Trew, Tony. "Theory and Ideology at Work." In Language and Control. By R. Fowler et al. London: Routledge, 1979. 94-116.
_____. "Theory and Ideology at Work." In Critical Discourse Analysis: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Ed. Michael Toolan. London: Routledge, 2002. 1.180-201.*
Wagner, David G. "Daring Modesty: On Metatheory, Observation, and Theory Growth." In Postmodernism and Social Theory: The Debate over General Theory. Ed. Steven Seidman and David G. Wagner. Cambridge (MA): Blackwell, 1992. 199-220.*
Theories
Wolman, Benjamin B. Teorías y sistemas contemporáneos en psicología. Traducción directa del inglés por el Dr. José Toro Trallero. Barcelona: Martínez Roca, 1979.* (From the edition in New York: Harper, 1960; Primera Parte: Condicionamiento, conductismo e intencionalismo; Segunda parte: Psicoanálisis y sistemas afines; Tercera parte: Psicologías de la comprensión, de la gestalt y del campo. Cuarta parte: La psicología y el método científico).
Bouamrane, Ali. "What is a Theory?" Revue des Langues 9 (1990): 49-58.
Brockman, John. This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Work. Edge, 2013.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Stories, Theories and Things. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.
Deutsch, David. "A New Way to Explain Explanation." Video talk at Ted.com (July-Oct. 2009).*
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain_explanation.html
2012
Falguera López, José Luis. "El papel semántico de los métodos de determinación para una teoría científica." In Semántica y lenguajes especializados. Ed. C. Inchaurralde et al. Zaragoza: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1992. 103-12.*
Galison, Peter. How Experiments End. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.* (Physics, atoms, particles, quantum theory, theories).
García Landa, José Ángel. "Teoría y práctica." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 16 Feb. 2007.
http://garciala.blogia.com/2007/021609-teoria-y-practica.php
2007-02-28
_____. "El Gran Diseño y Hacedor de Estrellas (5): La Teoría de Todo." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 19 August 2011.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/08/el-gran-diseno-y-hacedor-de-estrellas-5.html
2011
Gooding, David. "'Magnetic Curves' and the Magnetic Field: Experimentation and Representation in the History of a Theory." In The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences. Ed. David Gooding, Trevor Pinch and Simon Schaffer. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989. 183-223.*
Gooding, David, Trevor Pinch and Simon Schaffer, eds. The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989. 1993.*
Gould, Stephen J. "Evolution as Fact and Theory." Discover Magazine (May 1981).
_____. "Evolution as Fact and Theory." In Gould, In Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990. 253-62.
_____. "Sex, Drugs, Disasters and the Extinction of Dinosaurs." In Gould, The Flamingo's smile. 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.417-26.* (Theories).
_____. "El sexo, las drogas, los desastres y la extinción de los dinosaurios." In Gould, La sonrisa del flamenco. Barcelona: RBA, 1995. 353-61.*
_____. The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History. 1985.
_____. La sonrisa del flamenco. Trans. Antonio Resines. Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori-Crítica, 1995.
_____. La sonrisa del flamenco. Trans. Antonio Resines. Barcelona: RBA, 1995.*
_____. "In the Mind of the Beholder." In Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. 1996. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997. 93-107.* (Theories; human origins, evolution).
_____. "En la mente del espectador." In Gould, Un dinosaurio en un pajar. Barcelona: Crítica, 1997. 103-17.*
_____. "Dinosaur in a Haystack." In Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. 1996. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997. 147-58.* (Theories, extinction).
_____. "Un dinosaurio en un pajar." In Gould, Un dinosaurio en un pajar. Barcelona: Crítica, 1997. 159-70.*
Grady, J. "theories are buildings Revisited." Cognitive Linguistics 8.3 (1997): 267-90.
Grice, Helena, and Tim Woods. "Grand (Dis)Unified Theories? Dislocated Discourses in Gut Symmetries." In 'I'm Telling You Stories': Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading. Ed. Helena Grice and Tim Woods. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. 117-26.*
Hawking, Stephen, and Leonard Mlodinow. "5. The Theory of Everything." In Hawking and Mlodinow, The Grand Design. New York: Bantam Books, 2010. 85-120.*
Herschel, John Frederick William. Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy. London, 1830.
_____. From Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy. In Darwin: Texts. Commentary. Ed. Philip Appleman. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 2001. 52-57. (Theories, science).
Hesse, Mary B. Models and Analogies in Science. Notre Dame, 1970.
_____. "Is There an Independent Observation Language?" 1970. Rpt. as "Theory and Observation" in Hesse, Revolutions and Reconsturction in the Philosophy of Science. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1980.
Kuhn, Thomas S. "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice." In Critical Theory since 1965. Ed.. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle. Tallahasse: UPs of Florida / Florida State UP, 1986. 1990. 383-94.*
Ochs, Elinor, Carolyn Taylor, Dina Rudolph and Ruth Smith. "Storytelling as a Theory-Building Activity." Discourse Processes 15 (1989): 37-72.
Okasha, Samir. "The Strategy of Endogenization in Evolutionary Biology." Synthese 198 (2021): 3413-3435.*
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-018-1832-6
2021
Peirce, C. S. "The Architecture of Theories." The Monist 1.2 (1891): 161-76.
_____. "The Architecture of Theories." 1891. In The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings. Vol. 1 (1867-1893). Ed. Nathan Houser and Christian Kloesel. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992. 285-97.*
Popper, Karl R. Logik der Forschung. Wien: Springer, 1935.
_____. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. New York: Basic Books, 1949. 1959.
_____. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. London, 1959.
_____. La lógica de la investigación científica. 1934. English ed. 1958. Trans. Víctor Sánchez de Zavala. Introd. José Manuel Sánchez Ron. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1997.*
_____. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. New York: Harper, 1963.
_____ Conjectures and Refutations. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963. 4th ed. 1972.
Psellos, Mikahel. De Omnifaria Doctrina.
Rader, Ralph W. "Fact, Theory, and Literary Explanation." Critical Inquiry 1 (December 1974): 245-72.*
Schütz, Alfred. "Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences." In the Journal of Philosophy 51 (1954): 257-72.
Sörensen, Dolf. Theory Construction and the Study of Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987.*
Vaihinger, Hans. Die Philosophie des Als-Ob. Leipzig, 1922.
_____. The Philosophy of As If: A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind. Trans. C. K. Ogden. London, 1924.
Wallace, William A. Causality and Scientific Explanation. 2 vols. Ann Arbor, 1974.
_____. "Galileo and Reasoning Ex Suppositione: The Methodology of the Two New Sciences." Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (1974): 79-104.
Weinberg, Steven. Dreams of a Final Theory. London: Vintage, 1993.
_____. El sueño de una teoría final: La búsqueda de las leyes fundamentales de la naturaleza. Barcelona: Crítica, 2003.
Wolfram, Stephen. A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics. 2021.
Worrall, John. "Fresnel, Poisson and the White Spot: The Role of Successful Predictions in the Acceptance of Scientific Theories." In The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences. Ed. David Gooding, Trevor Pinch and Simon Schaffer. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989. 135-57.*
Young, Kay. "The Aesthetics of Elegance and Extravagance in Science and Art." Narrative 19.2 (May 2011): 149-70.*
Audio
Bragg, Melvyn, et al. "Theories of Everything." Audio. (In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 March 2004). Online at BBC.* (Brian Greene, John Barrow).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y24b
2023
Films
The Theory of Everything. Dir. James Marsh. Written by Anthony McCarten, based on the book by Jane (Wilde) Hawking. Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox. UK: Universal, 2014.* (Biopic on Stephen Hawking)
Internet resources
"Theory of Everything." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything
2014
Video
Fridman, Lex. "Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #124." Video interview. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 16 Sept. 2020.* (Models, Reducibility, Cybernetics, Computation, Pandemics, Theories, Quantum theory, Relativity, Mathematics, Multiverse)
2022
_____. "Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe – Lex Fridman Podcast #404." YouTube (Lex Fridman) 9 Dec. 2023.* (Assembly theory; Complexity).
2023
See also Literary theory: General: Criticism: Contemporary schools.
On Metatheory
Gärdenfors, P., and M. Lombard. "Hypothesis and Theory: Causal Cognition, Force Dynamics and Early Hunting Technologies." Frontiers in Psychology 9 (2018): article 87.
Horton, Susan R. Interpreting Interpreting: Interpreting Dickens's Dombey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1979.*
Ritzer, George. Metatheorizing in Sociology. Free Press, 1991.
_____. "Sociological Metatheorizing and a Metatheoretical Schema for Analyzing Sociological Theory." In Ritzer, Contemporary Sociological Theory. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992. 511-35.* (Kuhn, paradigms, metatheory).
_____. "Appendix: Sociological Metatheorizing and a Metatheoretical Schema for Analyzing Sociological Theory." In Ritzer, Classical Sociological Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992. 367-90.*
Seidman, Steven, and David G. Wagner , eds. Postmodernism and Social Theory: The Debate over General Theory. Cambridge (MA) and Oxford (UK): Blackwell, 1992.*
Video
Daly, Christopher. "Persistent Philosophical Disgreement." Audio. YouTube (Philosophical Overdose) 15 Feb. 2017.*
2017
See also Reflexivity; Retrospection.
