A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Friendship and Friends
Alfonso X. Las Siete Partidas del Rey don Alfonso el Sabio: Cotejadas con varios códices antiguos por la Real Academia de la Historia. Tomo 3: Partida Quarta, Quinta, Sexta y Séptima. Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1807. Online at Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. 2008.* (Marriage, dowry, parents, sons, feudalism, friendship, contracts, loans, testaments, reputation, slander, falsity, lust, rape, fornication, adultery, suicide, conversion, Jews, Moors, heresy, punishment, prison, torture)
2021
Aristotle (Aristóteles). "Libro octavo. Sobre la amistad." Aristóteles. Ética Nicomaquea. Trans. and notes by Julio Pallí Bonet. In Aristóteles, Ética Nicomaquea. Política. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Aristóteles, III). Madrid: Gredos, 2011. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2014. 173-96.*
_____. "Libro noveno. Sobre la amistad (continuación)." Aristóteles. Ética Nicomaquea. Trans. and notes by Julio Pallí Bonet. In Aristóteles, Ética Nicomaquea. Política. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Aristóteles, III). Madrid: Gredos, 2011. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2014. 197-218.*
Armengol-Carrera, Josep M. "The Buddy as Anima? Revisiting Friendships between Men in Richard Ford's The Sportswriter." Atlantis 31 (June 2009): 41-55.*
Avalle-Arce, Juan Bautista. "El cuento de los dos amigos." In Avalle-Arce, Nuevos deslindes cervantinos. Barcelona: Ariel, 1975. 153-211. (Pedro Alfonso).
Bacon, Francis. "Of Friendship." In Bacon's Essays. Ed. F. Storr and C. H. Gibson. 3rd ed. London: Longmans, Green, 1891. 223-37.*
Baroja, Pío. "Los amigos." In Pío Baroja: Obras Completas XVI: Obra dispersa y epistolario: Textos dispersos - Páginas de autocrítica - Prólogo a textos ajenos - Artículos - Epistolario selecto. Ed. José-Carlos Mainer. Rev. Juan Carlos Ara Torralba. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 2000. 1163-64.
Bell, Linda A. "Friendship, Love, and Experience." In Feminist Phenomenology. Ed. Linda Fisher and Lester Embree. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. 195-212.*
Bilal, Maaz Bin. "E. M. Forster's Place in the Long Discourse of Friendship." In Only Connect: E. M. Forster's Legacies in British Fiction. Ed. Elsa Cavalié and Laurent Mellet. Bern: Peter Lang, 2017. 161-71.*
Blanchot, Maurice. L'Entretien infini. Paris: Gallimard, 1971.
_____. Friendship. 1st pub. in France 1971. Trans. Elizabeth Rottenberg. (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
_____. La amistad. Trans. J. A. Doval Liz. Madrid: Trotta, 2007.
_____. Pour l'amitié. Fourbis, 1996.
Blum, Alan, and Peter McHugh, eds. Friends, Enemies, and Strangers: Theorizing in Art, Science, and Everyday Life. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1979.
Blum, Lawrence A. Friendship, Altruism and Morality. London: Routledge, 1980.
Buck, Pearl S., and Carlos P. Romulo. Friend to Friend. Non-fiction.
Burns, Tom. "Friends, Enemies, and the Polite Fiction." American Sociological Review 18 (1953): 654-62.
Cicero. Laelius de amicitia.
_____. Laelius, on Friendship. In Cicero, The Offices (Trans. Thomas Cockman, 1699). Laelius, on Friendship; Cato, on Old Age; and Select Letters (trans. W. Melmoth, 1753). With Note on Cicero's Character by De Quincey. Introd. John Warrington. (Everyman's Library, 345). London: Dent; New York: Dutton.
Curnutt, Kirk. "16. Literary Friendships, Rivalries, and Feuds." In Ernest Hemingway in Context. Ed. Debra A. Moddelmog and Suzanne del Gizzo. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. 163-72.*
de Botton, Alain. "How to Be a Good Friend." In de Botton, How Proust can Change Your Life. London: Picador, 1997. 1998. 115-44.*
Deleyto, Celestino "Between Friends: Love and Friendship in Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy." Screen 44.2 (2003).
Derrida, Jacques. Politiques de l'amitié. Paris: Galilée, 1994.
_____. Politics of Friendship. Trans. George Collins. London: Verso, 1997.
Donoghue, Emma, ed. Romantic Friendship and Desire. Anthology. 1997.
Duriez, Colin. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship. Paulist Press, 2003.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." In Emerson, Essays. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1906. 110-24.*
_____. "Friendship." From Essays, 1st series. In Emerson, The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Modern Library, c. 1950. 222-36.*
_____. "La amistad." In Emerson, Ensayos. Ed. and trans. Ricardo Miguel Alfonso. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 2001. 160-78.*
Enright, D. J., and David Rawlison, eds. The Oxford Book of Friendship. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
Faderman, Lillian. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Morrow, 1981.
Fernández-Morales, Marta. "Unexpected Alliances: Friendship and Agency in US breast Cancer Treatment." Atlantis 39.1 (June 2017): 153-72.*
Fernández Rodríguez, Carmen Mª. "Frances Burney and Female Friendships: Some Notes on Cecilia (1782) and The Wanderer (1814)." Journal of English Studies 9 (2011): 109-23.*
Fox, Robin. "Male Bonding in the Epics and Romances." In The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative. Ed. Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson. Evanston (IL): Northwestern UP, 2005. 126-44.*
Fuchs, Cynthia J. "The Buddy Politic." In Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in Hollywood Cinema. Ed. Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark. New York: Routledge, 1993. 194-210.
García de Vinuesa, Maya. "El modelo cultural de la amistad en la lengua inglesa de Ghana." In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglonorteamericanos). Lleida, 17-19 December 1998. Ed. Pere Gallardo and Enric Llurda. Lleida: Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2000. 129-32.*
García Landa, José Angel. "Ultima scena." In García Landa, Altered Ego: Blog de notas (Junio 2006) 4 June 2006.*
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z06-6.html
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/garciala/46875498961/in/dateposted-public/
2020
_____. "Ultima scena." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 4 June 2006.*
https://garciala.blogia.com/2006/060402-ultima-scena.php
2026
_____. "Retropost, 2006: Ultima scena." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 4 June 2026.*
https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2026/06/retropost-2006-ultima-scena.html
2026
https://x.com/JoseAngelGLanda/status/2062452818892501173
2026
_____. "Nos habremos ido." In García Landa, Aguja de Marearme: Blog de notas (Agosto 2006) 8 Aug. 2006.*
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z06-8.html
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_____. "Nos habremos ido." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 8 Aug. 2006.*
https://garciala.blogia.com/2006/080801-nos-habremos-ido.php
2026
_____. "Retropost, 2006: Nos habremos ido." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 8 Aug. 2026.*
https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2026/08/retropost-2006-nos-habremos-ido.html
2026
https://x.com/JoseAngelGLanda/status/2086047463748583584
2026
Gildea, William. "The Habit of Friendship." The Washington Post 10 Feb. 1980. (Flannery O'Connor)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1980/02/10/the-habit-offriendship/
2018
Glattaeur, Daniel. Quand souffle le vent du nord. Novel. Trans. from the German by Anne-Sophie Anglaret. Paris: Grasset, 2010. Rpt. Livre de Poche, 2011.
Haro de San Clemente, José. "Contra la excesiva familiaridad entre los sexos." From El chichisbeo impugnado. 1729. In El ensayo español, 2: El siglo XVIII. Ed. Francisco Sánchez Blanco. Barcelona: Crítica, 1998. 68-71.*
Hutson, Lorna. The Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in Sixteenth Century England. London: Routledge, 1994. New ed. 1997.
Kundera, Milan. Une rencontre. Essays, criticism and reviews. 2009. (Francis Bacon, Dostoievski, Céline, Philip Roth, Gudbergur Bergsson, Mark Beinczyk, Juan Goytisolo, García Márquez, Anatole France, Rabelais, Beethoven, Carlos Fuentes, Xenakis, Vera Linhartova, Oscar Milosz, friendship, Skvorecky, Ernest Breleur, Janacek, film, Brecht, Schönberg, Malaparte).
Laín Entralgo, Pedro. Sobre la amistad. 1972. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1994.
Leaman, Oliver, ed. Friendship East and West: Philosophical Perspectives. Richmond: Curzon, 1997.
Lledó, Emilio. "21. Elogio de la gratitud y de la amistad." In Lledó, Palabra y humanidad. Oviedo: KRK, 2015. 549-70.*
MacCary, W. Thomas. Friends and Lovers: The Phenomenology of Desire in Shakespeare's Comedies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.
Marcus, Sharon. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton University P, 2007. (2009 Perkins Prize for best book on narrative studies published in 2007).
Marías, Javier. "Los antiguos amigos." ("La zona fantasma" 5 nov. 2006). In javiermarias.es 5 Nov. 2006.
http://www.javiermarias.es/blog.html
2006-11-06
_____. "Las amistades desaparecidas." In Marías. Cuando los tontos mandan. Barcelona: Penguin Random House - Alfaguara, 2018. 204-6.*
Martínez, Ana I. "Amigos tóxicos: Así son y así debes alejarte de ellos." ABC 14 July 2022.*
2022
Mayer i Olivé, Marc. (Institut d'Estudis Catalans / Universitat de Barcelona). "Definiendo al amigo: Algunas consideraciones sobre el Laelius de amicitia de Cicerón." In Otivm cvm dignitate: Estudios en homenaje al profesor José Javier Iso Echegoyen. Ed. J. A. Beltrán et al. (Monografías de Filología Latina, 16). Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza, 2013. 305-18.*
Miller, Stuart. Men and Friendship. London: Gateway, 1983.
Montaigne, Michel de. "I.xxviii. De la amistad." In Montaigne, Ensayos completos. Madrid: Cátedra, 2003. 2010. 214-24.*
Murphy, Kate. "Do Your Friends Actually Like You?" New York Times 6 Aug. 2016.*
2016
Nedaee, Naeem, and Ali Salami. "Toward an Affective Problematics: A Deleuze-Guattarian Reading of Morality and Friendship in Toni Morrison's Sula." Atlantis 39.1 (June 2017): 113-31.*
Nehamas, Alexander. On Friendship. Basic Books.*
http://www.basicbooks.com/full-details?isbn=9780465082926
2016
Neill, Michael. "'He That Thou Knowest Thine': Friendship and Service in Hamlet." In A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: Volume 1: The Tragedies. Ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard. Malden: Blackwell, 2003. 2006. 319-38.*
Norman, Michael. These Good Men: Friendships Forged from War. New York: Crown, 1990.
Pitt-Rivers, Julián. "La paradoja de la amistad." Revista de Occidente 136 (1992): 57-72.*
Price, A. W. Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
Raymond, Janice G. A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection. Boston: Beacon, 1986. London: Women's Press, 1986. 1991.*
Reuters, A. H. Friendship and Love in the English Metrical Romances. 1991.
Rooney, Sally. Conversations with Friends. Novel. Faber and Faber, 2017.
Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Von der etischen Bedeutsamkeit des Handelns: oder: vom Wesen der Tugend und des Lasters / Sobre la significación ética de la conducta, o en torno a la esencia de la virtud y el vicio." Ch. 1 of Schopenhauer, Metafísica de las costumbres. Ed. and trans. Roberto Rodríguez Aramayo. Madrid: Debate / C.S.I.C., 1993. 129-57.* (Good and bad, perversity, cruelty, conscience, virtue, goodness, magnanimity, love, friendship, crying).
Shannon, Laurie J. "Emilia's Argument: Friendship and 'Human Title' in The Two Noble Kinsmen." English Literary History 64 (1974): 657-82.
_____. "Emilia's Argument: Friendship and 'Human Title' in The Two Noble Kinsmen." In Political Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Orgel and Sean Keilen. New York: Garland, 1999. 291-316.*
Sinfield, Alan. "Effeminacy, Friendship and the Hero in Marlowe and Shakespeare." In Sinfield, Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. 86-111.*
Smith, Bruce R. Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991. Pbk. 1994.*
Stevenson, W. Poetic Friends: A Study of Literary Relations During the English Romantic Period. 1989.
Strogatz, Steven. The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math. 2009.
Tannen, Deborah. Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends. Norwood (NJ): Ablex, 1984.
_____. "Gender Differences in Topical Coherence: Creating Involvement in Best Friends' Talk." Discourse Processes 13 (1990): 73-90.
Taylor, Jeremy. Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship. 1657.
Todd, Janet. Women's Friendship in Literature. New York: Columbia UP, 1980.
Voltaire. "Amistad." From Diccionario Filosófico. In Voltaire, Cartas filosóficas. Diccionario filosófico. Memorias para servir a la vida de Voltaire escritas por él mismo. Prologue by Fernando Savater. Introd. Martí Domínguez. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Voltaire, I). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA, 2014. 174-75.*
Williams, Alex. "Friends of a Certain Age: Why Is It Hard to Make Friends over 30?" New York Times 13 July 2012.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-making-friends-as-an-adult.html
2017
Wordsworth, Jonathan. Susanna Blamire: Poet of Friendship, 1747-1794. Much Wenlock: Maycock, 1994.
Wright, G. Dear Variety, Suited to all Ages and Conditions in Life. Wilkins, 1782.
Anthologies
Freixas, Laura, ed. Cuentos de amigas. Anthology.
Sharp, Ronald, and Eudora Welty, eds. The Norton Book of Friendship.
Films
Le Amiche. Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni. Written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Álba De Cespedes, based on the novel Tra donne sole by Cesare Pavese. Cast: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Maria Pancani, Luciano Volpato. Italy, 1955.
L'Avventura. Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni.
Donde viven los monstruos. Dir. Spike Jonze. Cast: Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo. 2009.
Friends. TV series
God Help the Girl. Writer and dir. Stuart Murdoch. Cast: Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray. UK, 2014.*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2141751/
2014
Jules et Jim.
Friends. Music by Dmitri Shostakovich. USSR, 1937.
Return of the Seacaucus 7. Dir. John Sayles. 1979.
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. Dir. David Mirkin. 1997.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. TV film of Shakespeare's play. (BBC Shakespeare series, broadcast 27 Dec. 1983).. Cast: Tyler Butterworth, John Hudson, Tessa Peake-Jones, Tony Haygarth and Joanne Pearce. Prod. Shaun Sutton. DVD. (The Shakespeare Collection). UK: BBC, 2005.*
Images
García Landa, José Angel. "Tres amigos." Photograph. In García Landa, Vanity Fea 11 Feb. 2022.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2022/02/tres-amigos.html
2022
Literature
Austen, Jane. Love and Freindship. 1790.
Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Novel. 2011. (Man Booker Prize 2011).
Brodkey, Harold. Amistad profana. (Panorama de narrativas, 356). Barcelona: Anagrama, 1996.
Donoghue, Emma. The Sealed Letter. Fiction. Canada: HarperCollins, 1008. (Adultery, friendship).
_____. The Sealed Letter. London: Picador, 2011.*
Ferrante, Elena. My Brilliant Friend. English trans. Fiction. 2012.
Le Carré, John. Absolute Friends. 2003.
_____. Amigos absolutos. Trans. Carlos Milla Soler. (Best Seller). Barcelona: Random House Mondadori - DeBols!llo, 2005.*
Maupassant, Guy de. "Two Friends." In Maupassant, Selected Short Stories. Trans. Roger Colet. New York: Penguin, 1971. 147-56.
Munro, Alice. "Friend of My Youth." In Munro, Selected Stories. London: Vintage, 2010. 299-316.*
_____. Friend of My Youth. Stories. London: Vintage.
Pearce, A. J. Dear Mrs. Bird.
_____. Querida Señora Bird. Trans. María Enguix Tercero. Barcelona: Roca Editorial, 2019.*
Philips, Katherine. "Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia." Poem. 1655, 1664. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt, et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1681.*
_____. "Friendship's Mystery: To my Dearest Lucasia." Poetry Foundation.*
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44861/friendships-mystery-to-my-dearest-lucasia
2019
_____. "To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship." From Poems, 1667 (text 1678). In The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Ed. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. Rpt. 1938, 1942, 1946. *
_____. "To my Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship." Poetry Foundation.*
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50445/to-my-excellent-lucasia-on-our-friendship
2019
Romains, Jules. Les Copains. Novel. 1913.
Rooney, Sally. Conversations with Friends. Fiction. 2017.
See, Lisa. Snow Flower and Secret Fan. Novel. Random House, 2005. (Female friends).
_____. El abanico de seda. Trans. Gemma Rovira Ortega. Barcelona: Salamandra, 2005.*
Trotter, Catherine. The Fatal Friendship. In Fidelis Morgan, The Female Wits: Women Playwrights on the London Stage 1660-1720. London: Virago, 1981. 145-208.*
Troyat, Henri. Une Extrême amitié.
Villegas, Antonio de. "Llanto de Pílades por la muerte de Orestes, su gran amigo." In Paraíso cerrado: Poesía en lengua española de los siglos XVI y XVII. Ed. José María Micó and Jaime Siles. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 2003. 108-11.*
Villegas, Esteban Manuel de. "A sus amigos." In Paraíso cerrado: Poesía en lengua española de los siglos XVI y XVII. Ed. José María Micó and Jaime Siles. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 2003. 586.*
Wells, H. G. The Passionate Friends. Novel. (Sex and friendship). c. 1913.
Music
García Landa, José Ángel. "Chanson simple." (Song by Lyle Lovett / Philippe Bergman). In García Landa, Vanity Fea (15 Dec. 2008).
http://garciala.blogia.com/2008/121501-chanson-simple.php
2008
Kaas, Patricia. "Chanson simple (Patricia Kaas)." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 27 Dec. 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/12/the-nether-sky.html
2012
Video
Stiegler, Bernard. "Veux-tu être mon ami (Qu'est-ce qu'être ami à l'ère de Facebook?)." Lecture at Orléans, 14 Nov. 2012. YouTube 2012.*
2015
Tannen, Deborah. "The Language of Friendship: The Role of Talk in an Understudied Relationship." Video (lecture at the University of California). YouTube (University of California UCTV) 31 Oct. 2017.*
2018
