A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Immortality
Barnuevo, Marlu. "Alcanzar el sueño de la inmortalidad gracias a la tecnología." El País (One) 13 Jan. 2016.*
http://one.elpais.com/el-sueno-de-bruce-duncan-alcanzar-la-inmortalidad-gracias-a-la-tecnologia/
2015
Bauman, Zygmunt. "Immortality, Postmodern Version." In Bauman, Postmodernism and Its Discontents. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997. 152-64.*
_____. Mortality, Immortality & Other Life Strategies. Polity.
Borges, Jorge Luis. "La inmortalidad." 5 June 1978. From Borges Oral. 1979. Rpt. in Borges, Miscelánea. Barcelona: Random House Mondadori-DeBols!llo, 2011. 208-218.*
Bostrom, Nick. "The Future of Human Evolution." In Death and Anti-Death. Ria UP, 2005.
Browne, Isaac Hawkins. De Animi Immortalitate. Poem. 1754.
"A Case of Bacterial Immortality?" Nature 19 Oct. 2000: 844.
Christie, William. "Intimations of Immortality in Swift and Keats." Review of English Studies 48.192 (November 1997): 501.*
Clark, Stephen R. L. How to Live Forever. London: Routledge, 1995. (On immortality in science fiction).
Cordeiro, José Luis. La muerte de la muerte. (Transhumanism, Immortality).
Ettinger, R. The Prospect of Immortality. New York: Doubleday, 1964.
Frazer, J. G. "Vivir para siempre." From Balder the Beautiful, vol. 1 (1913). In Antología de la Literatura Fantástica. Ed. Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. 1965. Barcelona: Edhasa, 1983. 1989. 1991. 187-88.*
García Gual, Carlos. "Propaganda imperial y afán de eternidad." In García Gual, La luz de los lejanos faros: Una defensa apasionada de las humanidades. Barcelona: Planeta-Ariel, 2017. 169-77.*
García Landa, José Ángel. "Old Mortality (A Fallacy in Nature)." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 23 Oct. 2008.
http://garciala.blogia.com/2008/102301-old-mortality-a-fallacy-in-nature-.php
2008
_____. "Que se sueñen inmortales." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 5 June 2010.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2010/06/que-se-suenen-inmortales.html
2010
_____. "Que se sueñen inmortales: Unamuno, doblemente escéptico." Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 4 June 2020.*
https://www.ibercampus.es/que-se-suenen-inmortales-39684.htm
2020
_____. "Que se sueñen inmortales: Unamuno, doblemente escéptico (Let Them Dream Themselves Immortal: Unamuno, a Double Skeptic)." Social Science Research Network 30 June 2020.*
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3620226
2020
Anthropology of Religion eJournal 30 June 2020.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Anthropology-Religion.html
2020
Continental Philosophy eJournal 30 June 2020.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Continental-Philosophy.html
2020
Ethics eJournal 30 June 2020.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Ethics.html
2020
Philosophy of Religion eJournal 30 June 2020.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Philosophy-Religion.html
2020
_____. "Que se sueñen inmortales: Unamuno, doblemente escéptico." Academia 26 July 2020.*
https://www.academia.edu/43715818/
2020
_____. "Que se sueñen inmortales: Unamuno, doblemente escéptico." ResearchGate 30 July 2020.*
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343318985
2020
_____. "Que se sueñen inmortales: Unamuno, doblemente escéptico." Humanities Commons 9 Aug. 2020.*
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:32243/
http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/cpvp-s409
2020
_____. "Que se sueñen inmortales: Unamuno, doblemente escéptico." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 22 July 2020.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2020/07/que-se-suenen-inmortales-unamuno_22.html
2020
_____. "Que se sueñen inmortales: Unamuno, doblemente escéptico." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 4 Jan. 2024.*
https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/quesesuenen.pdf
2024
_____. "Ignoring Mortality." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 31 May 2014.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/ignoring-mortality.html
2014
Gray, John. La Comisión para la Inmortalización: La ciencia y la extraña cruzada para burlar a la muerte. Sexto Piso.
Groys, Boris. Politik der Unsterblichkeit.
_____. Política de la inmortalidad: Cuatro conversaciones con Thomas Knoefel. (Discusiones). Madrid: Katz, 2008.
Harari, Yuval Noah. (The History of Tomorrow, in Hebrew). Israel: Kinneret zmora-Bitan Dvir, 2015.
_____. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. London: Harvill Secker, 2016. (I. Homo Sapiens conquers the world; II. Homo sapiens gives meaning to the world; III. Homo Sapiens loses control). (Posthumanism, immortality, technology, cyborgs, artifical intelligence, happiness).
_____. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. London: Vintage, 2016.*
_____. Homo Deus: Breve historia del porvenir. Trans. Joandomènec Ros. Barcelona: Debate, 2016.
Heinzelmann, Gerhard. Der Begriff der Seele und die Idee der Unsterblichkeit bei W. W. 1910.
Hume, David. Two Essays. ("Of Suicide." "Of the Immortality of the Soul."). Written c. 1755. Pub. 1777.
_____. "On the Immortality of the Soul." In Hume, Selected Essays. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993. 324-31.*
James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. New York: Modern Library, 1929.
_____. "Human Immortality." In James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. Human Immortality. New York: Dover, 1956.
_____. L'immortalité humaine: Deux prétendues objections à cette doctrine. Ed. and trans. Jim Gabaret. Editions Rue d'Ulm, 1025.
Jorion, Paul. "4. L'immortalité." In Jorion, Défense et illustration du genre humain. Paris: Fayard, 2018. 79-106.*
Jou Mirabent, David. "6. ¿Qué quedará del universo? ¿Qué quedará de nosotros?" In Jou, Cerebro y universo: Dos cosmologías. Barcelona: Edicions UAB, 2011. 171-92.*
Kenrick, William (Ps. "Ontologos"). The Grand Question Debated: or an Essay to prove that the Soul of Man is not, neither can it be Immortal. 1751. (Pro immortality of the soul).
Lee, Sidney. "12. The Elizabethan Sonnet." In The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 3: English: Renascence and Reformation. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. New York: Putnam, 1907-21. Online at Bartleby.com, 2000.* (1. The model of construction. 2. French influences: Marot, Ronsard, Du Bellay. 3. Spenser and his French masters. 4. The influence of Petrarch. 5. Thomas Watson. 6. Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. 7. Spenser's Amoretti. 8. The Sonneteering conceit of immortality. 9. Constable's Diana. 10. Daniel. 11. Lodge. 12. Drayton. 13. Richard Barnfield. 14. Barnabe Barnes. 15. Giles Fletcher. 16. Sir William Alexander; Drummond of Hawthornden. 17. Elizabethan critics of the sonnet. 18. The sonnet of compliment).
2013
Mariana, Juan de. Tractatus septem. Cologne, 1609. (I. De adventu Jacobi apostoli in Hispania; II. Pro editione Vulgatae; III. De spectaculis o Sobre los espectáculos. IV. De monetae mutatione o Acerca de la alteración de la moneda. V. De die mortis Christi; VI. De annis arabum; VII. De morte et inmortalitate).
Menninger, Julian. "Ewiges, gesundes Leben? Transhumane Heilserzählungen und fiktionale Gegenentwürfe." In Gesundheit erzählen. Ed. Letizia Dieckmann et al. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. 273-300.*
Myers, Frederic W. H. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death. 2 vols.
Peirce, C. S. "Immortality in the Light of Synechism." 1893. In The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings. Volume 2 (1893-1913). Ed. Nathan Houser et al. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. 1-3.*
Plato. Phaedo. In The Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato. Oxford, 1903.
_____. Phaedo. Ed. and trans. David Gallop. Oxford: Oxford UP.
_____. Phédon. (GF 489). Paris: Garnier-Flammarion.
_____. Fedón. In Plato (Platón), Diálogos III: Fedón – Banquete – Fedro. Introd., trans. and notes by C. García Gual, M. Martínez Hernández, E. Lledó Íñigo. Madrid: Gredos, 1982. Rpt. (Biblioteca Gredos). Barcelona: RBA, 2007. 7-141.*
Pomponazzi, Petrus. Tractatus de immortalitate animae.
Rumrich, John, and Stephen M. Fallon, eds. Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018.*
https://books.google.es/books?id=DgRGDwAAQBAJ
2020
Russell, Bertrand. "La teoría platónica de la inmortalidad." In Russell, Historia de la Filosofía Occidental, in Russell, Historia de la filosofía. Madrid: Aguilar, 1973.*
Sánchez, Carlos Manuel. "El círculo de los inmortales: Un misterioso laboratorio en busca de la eterna juventud." ABC (XL Semanal) 9 April 2022.* (Altos Lab, Jeff Bezos, Yuri Milner, Carlos Izpisúa).
2022
Savater, Fernando. La vida eterna. Barcelona: Ariel, 2007.
_____. La vida eterna. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 2007.*
Schopenhauer, Arthur. II.4.1. "Sobre la muerte y su relación con la indestructibilidad de nuestro ser en sí." In Schopenhauer, El Mundo como Voluntad y Representación (Volumen Segundo). Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2014. 505-52.*
_____. "10. Sobre la teoría del carácter indestructible de nuestro verdadero ser con la muerte." In Schopenhauer, Parerga y Paralipómena II. Madrid: Trotta, 2009. 283-98.*
Serpieri, Alessandro. I sonetti dell'immortalità. Milan: Bompiani, 1975.
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.
Starobinski, Jean. "Rêve et immortalité mélancolique." In Starobinski, L'Encre de la mélancolie. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2012. (Baudelaire metteur en scène. Les proportions de l'immortalité. Les rimes du vide. Le regard des statues. Le prince et son bouffon. Des 'négateurs' et des 'persécutés').*
Than, Ker. "The Ethical Dilemmas of Immortality." Live Science: Health SciTech 23 May 2006.
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060523_immortality_moral.html
2006-05-25
Tipler, Frank J. The Physics of Immortality. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
_____. La física de la inmortalidad. (Alianza Universidad). Madrid: Alianza, 1996.
Unamuno, Miguel de. "El hambre de inmortalidad." In Unamuno, Del sentimiento trágico de la vida. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1998. 61-76.*
_____. Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos. Written Salamanca, 1912. Pub. 1913.
_____. Del sentimiento trágico de la vida. In Unamuno, Ensayos. Prologue and notes by Bernardo G. de Candamo. 2 vols. 4th ed. Madrid: Aguilar, 1958.* (Vol. 2, "Con una antología epistolar comentada por Bernardo G. de Candamo"). 7th ed., 1967. Rpt. 1970. 2.727-1022.*
_____. Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos. (Austral). Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1937. 12th ed. 1971.*
_____. Del sentimiento trágico de la vida. Introd. Fernando Savater. (Biblioteca Universal, Ensayo Contemporáneo). Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1998.*
_____. Tragic Sense of Life. Trans. J. E. Crawford Flitch. New York: Dover, 1954.
Films
Jerome Bixby's "The Man From Earth." Dir. Richard Schenkman. Written by Jerome Bixby. Cast: John Billingsley, Ellen Crawford, William Katt, Annika Peterson, Richard Riehle, David Lee Smith, Alexis Thorpe, Tony Todd. Prod. des. Prinscilla Eliot. Photog. Afshin Shahidi. Music by Mark Hinton Steward. Ed. Neil Grieve. Exec. prod. Emerson Bixby and Mark Pellington. Prod. Richard Schenkman and Eric D. Wilkinson. DVD. Anchor Bay, 2008.*
Literature
Balzac, Honoré de. "El elixir de la larga vida." In Felices pesadillas: Los mejores relatos de terror aparecidos en Valdemar (1987-2003). Madrid: Valdemar, 2003. 75-110.*
Borges, Jorge Luis. "El inmortal." In El Aleph.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Zanoni. Novel. 1842.
_____. Zanoni, o el secreto de los inmortales. Trans. Quintín López Gómez. Introd. Agustín Izquierdo. (El Club Diógenes, 169). Valdemar, 2001.*
(Gilgamesh). Sha nagba imuru ("Who has seen the bottom of things" = Epic of Gilgamesh). Babylonian epic. (c. 2000 BC; extant version compiled by Sin-liqe-unninni, c. 1300-1000 BC).
_____. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Anon. Ed. And trans. Benjamin R. Foster. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 2001.
_____. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Introd. and trans. Maureen Gallery Kovacs. Stanford University Press: Stanford, California, 1985. 1989. (Glossary, Appendices, Appendix: Chapter XII=Tablet XII; line-by-line translation, Chapters I-XI).
_____. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Trans. Maureen Gallery Kovacs. In Ancient Texts.org
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh
_____. Gilgamesh and Enkidu. (Penguin 60s Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin. (Selection).
_____. Poema de Gilgamesh. Spanish trans. Agustí Bartra. In Poema de Gilgamesh. Bhagavad-Gita. (Biblioteca personal Jorge Luis Borges, 6). Barcelona: Hyspamérica / Orbis, 1986.*
Gleichmann, Gabi. El elixir de la inmortalidad. (Panorama de Narrativas, 873). Barcelona: Anagrama.
Godwin, William. St. Leon. Novel. 1799. many editions
Kundera, Milan. Nesmrtelnost. Novel. 1989.
_____. La inmortalidad. Trans. Fernando de Valenzuela. Barcelona: Tusquets, 1990.*
Medwin, Thomas. Ahasuerus, The Wanderer: A Dramatic Legend, / in Six Parts / By the Author of Sketches in Hindoostan, and Other Poems. (Epigraph from the Book of Job). London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittakerer, Ave MariaLane. 1823. (Dedicated to Lord Byron).
Saramago, José. Las intermitencias de la muerte. Novel. c. 2005.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. St. Irvyne, or The Rosicrucian. Gothic tale. London: Stockdale, 1811. (On immortality, inspired by Godwin' St. Leon).
_____. St. Irvyne, or The Rosicrucian. In Shelley, Prose Works. 1880. 1.269-.
Spenser. "Amoretti LXXV: On Day I Wrote Her Name." Poetry Foundation.*
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45189/amoretti-lxxv-one-day-i-wrote-her-name
2020
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. (Third Part).
Wordsworth, William. "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." 1802-4, pub. 1807.
_____. "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." In The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900. Ed. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1919.
_____. "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." 1802-4, pub. 1807. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen. ed. M. H. Abrams with Stephen Greenblatt. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1999. 286-92.*
_____. "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." Online at Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/101/536.html
2012
_____. "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." Online at Poetry Foundation.*
2018
_____. "Intimations of Immortality." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 6 Nov. 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/intimations-of-immortality.html
2012
Music
Escarpa, Antonio. "Una nueva estrella." From Madre Tierra. Audio. YouTube (Antonio Escarpa - Tema) 21 May 2021.*
2021
Video
Contreras, Francisco José. "Transhumanismo: la barbarie del hombre nuevo." Video lecture. YouTube (Luz de Trento) 17 Dec. 2023.* (Nick Bostrom, Luc Ferry, Body technology, Immortality, Genetic engineering, Gilgamesh, Aubrey de Grey, López Otín, Big Tech, Artificial Intelligence; Pico della Mirandola).
2024
Gil Ibáñez, Alberto, et al. "Presentación del libro de Alberto Gil Ibáñez, 'La guerra cultural: Los enemigos internos de España y de Occidente'." Video panel. YouTube (Societat Civil Catalana) 15 April 2021.* (Conflict, Propaganda, Culture wars, Against Spain, Ideological manipulation, Western culture, postmodernism; cultural decadence; immortality, fertility, population, immigration, values).
2021
"Is there Life after Death? 50 Years of Research at UVA." YouTube (UVA Medical Center Hour) 7 March 2017.*
2017
Kuhn, Robert Lawrence. "Daniel Dennett on Consciousness, Virtual Immortality and Panpsychism." Video interview. (Closer to Truth Chats). YouTube (Closer to Truth) 6 Aug. 2021.*
2023
Schnoebelen, William. "Former 33rd Degree Mason Reveals the Darkest Secrets of Freemasonry." Video interview with William Schnoebelen. YouTube (Almost False) 24 March 2025.* (Satanism, Occultism, Initiation, Organized crime, Cults, Murder, Rape, Pedophilia, Human sacrifice, Souls, Immortality, Conversion, Mormonism).
2025
See also Aging; Life; Longevity; Death.
