El Absurdo

 

   from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

The Absurd / Absurd drama

 

 

 

Abbott, H. Porter. "Late Modernism: Samuel Beckett and the Art of Œuvre." In Around the Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 19-32.*

Baden, H. Jürgen. "Ejercicios del absurdo: T. S. Eliot." In Jürgen, Literatura y conversión. Madrid: Guadarrama, 1969. 101-50.*

Ben-Zvi, Linda. "O'Neill and Absurdity." In Around the Absurd.   Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 33-56.*

Benatar, David. The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.*

_____. El dilema humano: Una guía sin adornos sobre los grandes interrogantes de la vida. Madrid: Alianza, 2022.

Blau, Herbert. "The Oversight of Ceaseless Eyes." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 279-92.* (Spectacles, avant-garde).

Brater, Enoch. "After the Absurd: Rethinking Realism and a Few Other Isms." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 293-302.*

Culík, Jan. "The Theatre of the Absurd. The West and the East." Bristké lisy. 2000.

         http://blisty.cz/video/Slavonic/Absurd.htm

         2016

Dukore, Bernad F. "Peter Barnes and the Problem of Goodness." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 155-74.*

Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.*

_____. The Theatre of the Absurd. New York: Anchor Books, 1969.

Camus Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe: essai sur l'absurde. Paris: Gallimard, 1942.

Cohn, Ruby. "Around the Absurd." In Around the Absurd.  Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 1-10.*

Galloway, David. The Absurd Hero in American Fiction. Austin: U of Texas P, 1966.

Gargano, Antonio. "Ser y parecer. Sobre el absurdo en el Buscón." In Gargano, La sombra de la teoría: ensayos de literatura hispánica del Cid a Cien Años de Soledad. Salamanca: Ediciones U de Salamanca, 2007. 165-80.*

Hinchcliffe, Arnold P. The Absurd. London: Methuen, 1969.

Kazin, Alfred. "Absurdity as a Contemporary Style: Ellison to Pynchon." In Kazin, Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. (An Atlantic Monthly Press Book). Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. 243-82.*

Knowlson, James. "Tradition and Innovation in Ionesco's La Cantatrice chauve." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 57-72.*

Kofler, Leo. Abstrakte Kunst und absurde Literatur. Vienna: Europa Verlag, 1970.

_____. Arte abstracto y literatura del absurdo. Trans. Eduardo Subirats. Barcelona: Barral, 1972.*

Kott, Jan. "Dagny and Lulu." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 11-18.* (Wedekind, Dagny Juel, Strindberg).

Lamont, Rosette C. "The Internationalization of the Paris Stage." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 221-38.*

Lyons, Charles R. "Beckett, Shakespeare, and the Making of Theory." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 97-128.*

Magny, Claude-Edmonde. "Kafka ou l'écriture objective de l'absurde." In Magny, Les Sandales d'Empédocle: Essai sur les limites de la littérature. Neuchâtel: Éditions de la Baconnière, 1945. 173-200.*

Manns, James. "Two faces of the absurd." Humor. International Journal of Humor Research 1-3 (1988): 259-268.

Nightingale, Benedict. "Harold Pinter / Politics." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 129-54.*

Shank, Theodore. "Framing Actuality: Thirty Years of Experimental Theater, 1959-89." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 239-72.

Valente, José Ángel. "El absurdo, la ironía, el tiempo. A propósito de Albert Camus." In Valente, Obras completas, II: Ensayos. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores / Galaxia Gutenberg, cop. 2008. 805-12.*

Webb, Jen. "La extraordinaria obra de Milan Kundera explora la opresión y lo absurdo del ser humano." The Conversation 13 July 2023.*

         https://theconversation.com/la-extraordinaria-obra-de-milan-kundera-explora-la-opresion-y-lo-absurdo-de-ser-humano-209698

         2023

Weiner, Bernard. "The Absurd, To and Fro." In Around the Absurd.  Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 273-78.*

Weightman, John. The Cat Sat On The Mat: Language And The Absurd. 2002.

Worth, Katharine. "Maeterlinck in the Light of the Absurd." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn." Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 33-56.*

Zeifman, Hersh. "A Trick of the Light: Tom Stoppard's Hapgood and Postabsurdist Theater." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 175-202.*

Zinman, Toby Silverman. "Hen in a Foxhouse: The Absurdist Plays of Maria Irene Fornes." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 203-20.*

 

 

 

 

Films

 

 

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Dir. Terry Jones. Written and starred by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. With Carol Cleveland, Simon Jones, Patricia Quinn, Judy Loe, Andrew MacLachlan, mark Holmes, Valerie Whittington, Jennifer Franks, Imogen Bickford-Smith, Angela Mann, Peter Lovstrom, George Silver, Chris Grant.  Prod. John Goldstone. Director of Animation and special sequence, Terry Gilliam. Photog. Peter Hannan. Ed. Julian Doyle. Prod. des. Harry Lange. Costumes by Jim Acheson. Choreog. Arlene Phillips. Special effects George Gibbs. Prod. manager David Wimbury. Made by the Monty Python Partnership. UK, 1983. VHS.*

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

Bernhard, Thomas. Frost. Novel. New York: Knopf, 2006.

Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit. ("The Circumlocution Office")many editions

Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. many editions

Espronceda, José de. "El diablo mundo." Poem. In Espronceda, Obras poéticas. Ed. Leonardo Romero Tobar. Barcelona: RBA, 1994. 1999. 154-321.*

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Novel. New York, 1961.

_____. Catch 22. Novel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.

_____. Catch-22. 1961. New York: Dell, 1985.

_____. Catch-22. London: Corgi, 1987.

_____. Catch-22. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.

Kafka, Franz. The Trial. many editions.

Lanza, Silverio. La antropocultura. Córdoba: Berenice, 2009.

Melville, Herman. "Bartleby the Scrivener." Story. 1853.

_____. "Bartleby the Scrivener." Story. In The Piazza Tales. 1857.

_____. Bartleby, the Scrivener. In The Piazza Tales and Other Pieces, 1839-1860. Vol. 9 of The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern University Edition. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1987.

_____. Bartleby. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995.

_____. "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street." 1853.  In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. By Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 642-75.*

_____. "Bartleby, el escribiente." In Melville, Bartleby, el escribiente. Benito Cereno. Billy Budd. Ed. Julia Lavid. Madrid: Cátedra.

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de. Pilote de guerre.  Paris: Gallimard, 1942. Rpt. (Folio, 824). Paris: Gallimard, 1976. 1988.*