Pesimismo

 

 

     from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

 

Pessimism                  

 

 

Beauchamp, Gorman. "The Triumph of the Crocodile: Pessimism and Orwell's Politics." In George Orwell: A Centenary Celebration. Ed. Annette Gomis and Susana Onega. Heidelberg: Winter, 2005. 59-72.*

Bloch, Arthur. Las leyes de Murphy para niños. Illust. Teresa Novoa. Madrid: Susaeta, 2000.*

Bredvold, Louis I. "The Gloom of the Tory Satirists." In Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Ed. James L. Clifford. New York: Oxford UP, 1959.*

Compagnon, Antoine. "1.III. Pessimisme." In Compagnon, Les Antimodernes: De Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes. (Folio; Essais, 618). Paris: Gallimard, 2016.* (Decadence).

_____. "1.IV. Péché originel." In Compagnon, Les Antimodernes: De Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes. (Folio; Essais, 618). Paris: Gallimard, 2016.* (Schopenhauer, pessimism).

Espada, Arcadi. "Todo va bien, menos el futuro." Diarios de Arcadi Espada 10 June 2009.

         http://www.arcadiespada.es/2009/07/10/10-de-junio-2/  

         2009

García Landa, José Angel. "Pessimistic Prophecy." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 20 Feb. 2024.*

         https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2024/02/pessimistic-prophecy.html

         2024

Goldsmith, Oliver. "The Manner in which some Philosophers make Artificial Misery." In Essays of Oliver Goldsmith. London: Macmillan, 1904. 165-9.*

Hampshire, Stuart. "Morality and Pessimism." In Public and Private Morality. Ed. Stuart Hampshire. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978.

Hoeltje, Hubert H. "Hawthorne, Melville, and 'Blackness'." American Literature 37.1 (March 1965): 41-51. Online at JSTOR.*

         https://www.jstor.org/stable/2922874

         2020

Lovejoy, A. O. "Rousseau's Pessimist." Modern Language Notes 38 (1924).

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik. Oder: Griechentum und Pessimismus. 1872.

_____. Die Geburt der Tragödie, Oder: Griechenthum und Pessimismus: Neue Ausgabe mit dem Versuch einer Selbstkritik. Leipzig: Frizsch, 1886.

_____. Die Geburt der Tragödie. In Nietzsche, GessamleteWerke. Musarion. Vol. 3.

_____. The Birth of Tragedy and The Genealogy of Morals. Trans. Francis Golffing. New York: Doubleday, 1956.

_____. The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music. Trans. Walter Kaufmann. New York: Random House-Vintage, 1967.

_____. The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings. Ed. Raymond Geuss and Ronald Speirs. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

_____. The Birth of Tragedy. Ed. and trans. Douglas Smith. (Oxford World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

_____. From The Birth of Tragedy. In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.*

_____. La Naissance de la tragédie.

_____. El nacimiento de la tragedia. Ed. and trans. Andrés Sánchez Pascual. Madrid: Alianza, 1982. 7th ed. 1984.*

_____. El Nacimiento de la Tragedia. El Caminante y su Sombra. La Ciencia Jovial. Introd. Germán Cano. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Nietzsche, I). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2014.*

Pinker, Steven. Enlightenment Now.

Schopenhauer, Arthur. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Leipzig, 1819. (Vol. 2, 1844). (Existence, World, Plato, Kant, Upanishads, Knowledge, Idealism, Causality, Brain, metaphysics, Will, Perception, Consciousness, Body, Freedom, Life, Strife, Aesthetics, Beauty, Ethics).

_____. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Ed. Arthur Hübscher. Mannheim: Brockhaus, 1988.

_____. The World as Will and Representation.  Trans. E. F. J. Payne. 2 vols. New York: Dover, 1969.

_____. El mundo como voluntad y representación. Introd. E. Friedrich Sauer. Trans. E. Ovejero y Maury. México: Porrúa, 1987.

_____. El mundo como voluntad y representación. Introd. Ignasi Roviró Alemany. Barcelona: RBA, 2004.

_____. El mundo como voluntad y representación (volumen primero). Trans. Rafael-José Díaz Fernández and Mª Montserrat Armas Concepción. Introd. Luis Fernando Moreno Claros. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA, 2014.*

_____. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Band II. 1844.

_____. El Mundo como Voluntad y Representación (Volumen Segundo). 1844. Trans. Rafael-José Díaz Fernández and Mª Montserrat Armas Concepción; rev. Joaquín Chamorro Mielke. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Schopenhauer, II). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2014.* ("Volumen II: Que contiene los complementos a los cuatro libros del primer volumen").

_____. II.4.8. "Sobre la doctrina de la negación de la voluntad de vivir." In Schopenhauer, El Mundo como Voluntad y Representación (Volumen Segundo). Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2014. 651-83.*

Tallis, Raymond. Enemies of Hope: A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997.

Tupy, Marian L. "Things Are Getting Better, So Why Are We All So Gloomy?" Human Progress 6 Jan 2018.*

         https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1084

         2018

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Bacon, Francis. "The Life of Man." In The Golden Treasury. Ed. F. T. Palgrave. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, n.d. 46-47.

_____. "The Life of Man." Luminarium. 2010.*

         http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/lifeman.php

         2022

Beckett, Samuel. The Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable.

_____. Fin de partie. Drama in French. In Samuel Beckett, Fin de partie suivi de Acte sans Paroles I.

_____. Fin de partie. Ed. J. and B. S. Fletcher. London: Methuen, 1970.

_____. Fin de partie. In Beckett, Théâtre I.

_____. Endgame. English translation by Beckett. New York: Grove Press, 1958.

_____. Endgame. In Samuel Beckett, Engame Followed by Act Without Words I.

_____. Endgame. In Beckett, Complete Dramatic Works 89-134.

_____. Endgame. 1958. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, with Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 2.2472-4500.*

_____. Endgame. Dir. Conor McPherson. Writer: Samuel Beckett. Cast: David Thewlis, Michael Gambon. Blue Angel Films, 2000. Online at YouTube (Donauquell) 8 Feb. 2014.*

         https://youtu.be/ok7Vc3jczNg

         2016

_____. Endgame. Online performance at YouTube (Andrés Fernandes Abreu)

         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKW1rw8UsKA

         2012

_____. Final de partida. Spanish translation. In Primer Acto 11.

_____. Final de partida. In Esperando a Godot, Final de partida y Acto sin palabras I,

_____. Final de partida. In Beckett, Comedias.

_____. Final de partida. In Beckett, Obras escogidas.

_____. Fin de partida. Trans. Ana María Moix. Barcelona: Tusquets, 1986.

_____. Fin de partida. Trans. Ana María Moix. Foreword by José Jiménez. (Colección Millenium). Madrid: Unidad Editorial-El Mundo, 1999.*

Leopardi, G. "La Ginestra." 1836.

Thomson, James. The City of Dreadful Night. Poem. 1880.

_____. The City of Dreadful Night. Online at Project Gutenberg. 2008.*

         http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1238/1238-h/1238-h.htm

         2012

 

 

 

 

 

Music

 

 

Coward, Noël. "There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner." Audio. YouTube (ArthurSleep) 9 May 2010.*

https://youtu.be/lCZCv98XKFs

2020