A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Funerals
Funerals
Funeral homes
Funeral monuments
Funeral rituals
Funerals
Ramos, Ana Belén. "El Gobierno prepara un funeral de Estado para las víctimas con las cifras más opacas de Europa - El Independiente." El Independiente 18 June 2020.*
2020
Concostrina, Nieves. Polvo eres: Peripecias y extravagancias de algunos cadáveres inquietos. Madrid: La Esfera de los libros. 2008. 2nd ed. 2011.
Habenstein, Robert W. "The American Funeral Director." Ph.D. diss., Dpt. of Sociology, U of Chicago, 1954.
Films
The Final Cut. Writer and dir. Omar Naim. Cast: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, James Caviezel, Genevieve Buechner, Stephanie Romanov, Mimi Kuzyk,Thom Bishops, Brendan Fletcher. Prod. Nick Wechsler Music by Brian Tyler. Photog. by Tak Fujimoto. Ed. Dede Allen. USA, 2004. (Spanish title: La memoria de los muertos).
Saul Fia (The Son of Saul). Dir. László Nemes. Written by László Nemes and Clara Royer. Cast: Geza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urls Rechn. Hungary, 2015.*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3808342/
2016
Literature
Brahojos. [Juntáronse al entierro de Lucía]. Sonnet. 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. 183.*
Brown, Molly. Invitation to a Funeral. London: Gollancz.
Burke, Gregory. Hoors. Drama. 2009. (Funeral).
Donne, John. "The Funerall." From Songs and Sonnets, 1633. In The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Ed. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. Rpt. 1938, 1942, 1946. 108-9.*
Erasmus of Rotterdam, Desiderius. "XIII. Los funerales." In Erasmo, Coloquios. Trans. and notes by Pedro Rodríguez Santidrián. Espasa. Rpt. (select.). in Enquiridion. Elogio de la locura. Coloquios (selección). Introd. Jordi Bayod and Joaquim Parellada. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos). Madrid: Gredos, 2011. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA, 2014. 366-82.*
Larra, Mariano José de. "Necrología. Exequias del Conde de Campo-Alange." In Larra, Artículos. Ed. Enrique Rubio. Madrid: Cátedra, 1992. 410-15.*
Munro, Alice. "Heirs of the Living Body." In Lives of Girls and Women. London: Penguin Random House-Vintage, 2015. 35-79.*
Porter, Peter. "An Exequy." In The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945. Ed. Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford. Harmondsworth: Penguin, c. 1998.
Thomas, Dylan. "After the Funeral." Poem. 1938, 1939. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, with Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 2.2518-19.*
Music
Berlioz, Hector. Requiem: Grande Messe des Morts op. 5
_____. Requiem: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5. Keith Lewis. Chor des NDR Hamburg. Konzertvereinigung ORF-Chor. Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt / Eliahu Inbal. Rec. 1988. CDs 10-11 of Hector Berlioz Edition. Brilliant Classics, n.d.*
Brahms, Johannes. Ein deutsches Requiem. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra / Otto Klemperer. (Great Recordings of the Century). EMI Classics.
Gordon, Ricky Ian. Water Music: A Requiem. In Of Eternal Light: Monk – Messiaen – Gordon – Ligeti – Sherman – Moran. Musica Sacra / Richard Westenburg. CD. Austria: BMG-Catalyst, 1993.*
Ligeti, György. Requiem para soprano, mezzosoprano, dos coros mixtos y orquesta. 1963-65. Lilina Poli, soprano. Barbro Ericson, mezzo. Coro de la Radio Bávara. Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio de Hesse / Michael Gielen. In Ligeti, Requiem. Obras de cámara. (Clásica El País, 41). Madrid: Diario El País, 2004.*
Sherman, Kim D. Graveside In Of Eternal Light: Monk – Messiaen – Gordon – Ligeti – Sherman – Moran. Musica Sacra / Richard Westenburg. CD. Austria: BMG-Catalyst, 1993.*
_____. Service for the Dead in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Verdi, Giuseppe. Messa da Requiem. Premiere at the Church of San Marco, Milan, 22 May 1874.
_____. Misa de Requiem / Messa da Requiem. Leontyne Price, Rosalind Elias, Jussi Björling, Giorgio Tozzi. Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wien. Wiener Philharmoniker / Fritz Reiner. 2 CDs. Prod. London: Decca, 1995. (Música Sacra, 29, 30. CD 2 with Cuatro piezas sacras). Barcelona: Altaya, 1997.*
_____. Requiem. Renée Fleming, Olga Borodina, Andrea Bocceli, D'Arcangelo. Kirov Orchestra and Chorus / Valery Gergiev. 2 CDs. Philips, 2001.
Video
Munoz Iturrieta, Pablo. "El momento más emotivo en la despedida de Charlie Kirk." Video. YouTube (Pablo Munoz Iturrieta) 22 Sept. 2025.*
2025
Funeral homes
Films
Six Feet Under. TV series. Netflix.
Video
Campbell, John. "White Clots Common." Video interview with Major Tom Haviland. YouTube (Dr. John Campbell) 8 Feb. 2024.*
https://capture.dropbox.com/NGZbi6ZRW1Jbi2Jq
2024
See also Undertakers.
Funeral Monuments
Megalithic Marvels. "Unearthing the Royal Kurgan." Megalithic Marvels 27 Feb. 2021.*
https://megalithicmarvels.com/2021/02/27/unearthing-the-royal-kurgan/
2023
Murphy, Jessica. "Preserving a Loved One's Tattoos After Death." BBC News 3 May 2019.*
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48047002
2019
Literature
Leopardi, Giacomo. "Her Monument, the Image Cut Thereon"—From the Italian of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1817). Trans. Ezra Pound. In The Translations of Ezra Pound. London: Faber and Faber, 1970. 444-45.*
See also Tombs.
Funeral rites
Browne, Thomas (Sir). Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepuchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall, Lozenge or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered. With Sundry Observations. London: Printed for Hen. Brome, 1658.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus. 2nd ed. appended to Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1658. Also 1659. 1669.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus. In Browne, Works. 1686.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus. London: Printed for E. Curll, 1736.
_____. Hydriotaphia. In Tracts. Ed. W. Crossley. With A Letter to a Friend and Musaeum Clausum. London,1822.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus. In Works. Ed. S. Wilkin. London, 1836. Vol. 3.
_____. Hydriotaphia . With Religio Medici... Ed. J. A. St. John. London, 1838.
_____. Hydriotaphia. With Religio Medici... Ed. J. Addington Symonds. London, 1886.
_____. Hydriotaphia . Ed. Sir John Evans. London, 1893.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus. Ed. W. A. Greenhill. London, 1896.
_____. Hydriotaphia. With Religio Medici.... Ed. J. W. Willis Bund. London, 1869.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus. In Browne, Works. Ed. S .Wilkin. London, 1835 (dated 1836). Vol. 3.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus. In Religio Medici... (Everyman's Library). London: Dent, 1906, rpt. 1956.
_____. Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus. In The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Ed. Charles Sayle. London: 1904-7. Vol. 3, 1907.
_____. Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus. In In The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Ed. Charles Sayle. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1927. 3.87-212.*
_____. Hydriotaphia . Ed. W. Murison. Cambridge, 1922.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus. (Noel Douglas Replicas). London, 1927.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus. In Works. Ed. G. Keynes. London: 1928-31. Vol. 2, 1929.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus Ed. J. Carter. London, 1932.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus. Ed. J. Carter. Cambridge, 1958.
_____. Hydriotaphia with The Garden of Cyrus. In Religio Medici and Other Works. Ed. L. C. Martin. Oxford: Clarendon, 1964. 1967. 81-176.*
D'Onfro, Jillian. "Facebook Now Lets You Decide What Happens to Your Profile When You Die." 12 Feb. 2015.*
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-to-your-facebook-profile-when-you-die-2015-2
2016
Esteban Lorente, Juan Francisco. "Una aportación al arte provisional del barroco zaragozano: los capelardentes reales." In Francisco Abbad Ríos: A su memoria. Zaragoza: Departamento de Historia del Arte, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Zaragoza, 1973. 35-62.*
Farber, Tanya. "Tiny Homo naledi skull of small child feeds theory that the species deliberately deposited their dead." Sunday Times - Live 4 Nov. 2021.*
2021
García Landa, José Angel. "Todos al compost." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 2 Nov. 2022.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2022/11/todos-al-compost.html
2022
González Cruz, David. Religiosidad y ritual de la muerte en la Huelva del Siglo de la Ilustración. Huelva: Diputación Provincial de Huelva, 1993.
Kirchmann. De funeribus Romanorum. 1625. 1661.
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien. "VII. La survie des morts." In Lévy-Bruhl, L'Âme primitive, in Primitifs. Paris: Analet, 2007.* (Afterlife, Belongings, Widows)
_____. "IX. Dualité et bi-présence des morts. X. (Suite)." In Lévy-Bruhl, L'Âme primitive, in Primitifs. Paris: Analet, 2007. (Corpses, Sorcerers, Zombies, Resurrection, Religion, Otherworld, Death, Funeral rituals)*
Koslofsky, Craig. The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, 1475-1700. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
Neill, Michael. "'Death's Triumphant Chariot': Tragedy and Funeral." In Neill, Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 1998. 265-304.*
Perucci. Pompe funebri. 1639.
Vázquez, Karelia. "Algún día usted será un fantasma digital—si quiere." El País 16 June 2021.*
https://elpais.com/eps/2021-06-16/algun-dia-usted-sera-un-fantasma-digital-si-quiere.html
2021
Weever, J. Ancient Funerall Monuments. London, 1631.
Audio
Jiménez Losantos, Federico. "Federico a las 7: TVE no retransmite el funeral por las víctimas del coronavirus." Audio. YouTube (esRadiovideos) 7 July 2020.*
2020
_____. "Federico a las 7: Homenaje de Estado a las víctimas del coronavirus." Audio. YouTube (esRadiovideos) 16 July 2020.*
2020
_____. "Federico a las 8: Un Gobierno impresentable que no sabe ni mostrar respeto a las víctimas." Audio. YouTube (esRadiovideos) 17 July 2020.*
2020
Madison, Paige. "How to Care for the Dead." Audio. Sapiens 20 Nov. 2018.*
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/why-do-we-bury-the-dead/
2019
Internet resources
Nieves Concostrina. Blog on tombs and funerals. (Nieves Concostrina, Radio 5, Spain).
http://www.nievesconcostrina.es/
2007-02-04
Literature
Landa Galindo, Víctor. "Velatorio." In Landa, Inteligencia Artificial y otros cuentos. Monzón: BooksonLine, 2025. 119-28.*
Stanley, Thomas. "The Exequies." From Poems and Translation, 1647. In The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Ed. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. Rpt. 1938, 1942, 1946. 791-92.*
Music
Verdi, Giuseppe. Messa da Requiem. Premiere at the Church of San Marco, Milan, 22 May 1874. many editions
Video
Cuesta, Carlos. "El homenaje a las víctimas fue un aquelarre a mayor gloria de Sánchez." Video. (Con España a Cuesta). YouTube (DISTRITOTV) 28 July 2020.*
2020
Marín, Higinio. "El origen de la civilización: Una arqueología de lo humano." Video lecture. YouTube (Facultad de Teología – Universidad de Navarra).* (Anthropology; Symbolism, Prohibition, Incest, Family, Community, Matriarchy, St. Augustine, Cannibalism, Odyssey, Hospitality and the Other, Private Property, Theft, Clans and Law, Twins, Religion; Offspring, Mothers, Burials, Death and Absence, Antigone, Homes, Temples, Resentment; Sacred; Memory).
2025
