Fracaso

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Failure

 

 

Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. Why Nations Fail.

_____. Por qué fracasan los países: Los orígenes del poder, la prosperidad y la pobreza. Barcelona: Crítica, 2012.

Acheson, James. "The Art of Failure: Samuel Beckett's Molloy". Southern Humanities Review 17.1 (1983): 1-18.

Álvarez Amorós, José Antonio. "Henry James's Dramatic Workshop: Strategies of Failure in the Transgeneric Growth of 'The High Bid' (1907). In The Failed Text: Literature and Failure. Ed. José Luis Martínez-Dueñas Espejo and Rocío G. Sumillera. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 49-67.

Amat, Jordi. "Un fracaso colosal." La Vanguardia 24 Sept. 2017.*

         http://www.lavanguardia.com/opinion/20170924/431517222759/un-fracaso-colosal.html

         2017

Bouissac, Paul. "Incidents, Accidents, Failures: The Representation of Negative Experience in Public Entertainment." In Erving Goffman. Ed. Gary Alan Fine and Gregory W. H. Smith. 4 vols. (SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought). London: SAGE, 2000.

Clayson, Gretchen. "Russia’s First Lunar Mission In Decades Ends In Failure." Daily Caller 20 Aug. 2023.*

https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/20/luna-25-spacecraft-russia-collides-moon/

         2023

Fernández Tresguerres, Alfonso. "Del fracaso." El Catoblepas 101 (July 2010): 3.*

         http://www.nodulo.org/ec/2010/n101p03.htm

         2010

García Landa, José Ángel.  "La historia del fracaso del plan." In García Landa, NamberGuán: Blog de notas (enero y febrero 2006) 10 Jan. 2006.*

         http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z06-1.html

         2012 DISCONTINUED 2018 Online at the Internet Archive.*

         https://web.archive.org/web/20181101084626/http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z06-1.html

         2020

         https://www.flickr.com/photos/garciala/46875499401/in/dateposted-public/

         2020

_____. "La historia del fracaso del plan." In García Landa, Vanity Fea  10 Jan. 2006.*

         https://garciala.blogia.com/2006/011002-la-historia-del-fracaso-del-plan.php

         2026

_____. "Retropost, 2006: La historia del fracaso del plan." In García Landa, Vanity Fea  10 Jan. 2026.*

         https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2026/01/retropost-2006-la-historia-del-fracaso.html

         2026

         https://x.com/JoseAngelGLanda/status/2009897147538305351

         2026

_____. "Contra el fracaso escolar: La vía rápida." In García Landa, "What I Call My Work": Blog de notas 2006 (2) 8 March 2026.*

         http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z06-2.html

         2012 DISCONTINUED 2018 Online at the Internet Archive.*

         https://web.archive.org/web/20181101093819/http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z06-2.html

         2020

         https://www.flickr.com/photos/garciala/39910765723/in/dateposted-public/

         2020

_____. "Contra el fracaso escolar: La vía rápida." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 9 March 2006.*

         https://garciala.blogia.com/2006/030901-contra-el-fracaso-escolar-la-via-rapida.php

         2026

_____. "Contra el fracaso escolar: La vía rápida." In Fírgoa: Universidade Pública 9 March 2006.

         http://firgoa.usc.es/drupal/node/26709

         2006

_____. "Retropost, 2006: Contra el fracaso escolar: La vía rápida." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 9 March 2026.*

         https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2026/03/retropost-2006-contra-el-fracaso.html

         2026

         https://x.com/JoseAngelGLanda/status/2030908226846228902

         2026

_____. "Oscuridad, fracaso, Persona de Porlock." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 16 April 2010.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2010/04/oscuridad-fracaso-persona-de-porlock.html

         2010

_____. "Retroprospección de Dionisio." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 27 Jan. 2026.* (Víctor Landa Galindo).

         https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2026/01/retroprospeccion-de-dionisio.html

         2026

_____. "Trump fracasa." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 19 March 2026.*

         https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2026/03/trump-fracasa.html

         2026

González Maestro, Jesús. Ensayo sobre el fracaso histórico de la democracia en el siglo XXI.

_____. "Universidades o manicomios? La comunidad universitaria es incapaz de admitir el fracaso e interpreta el suspenso como un atentado contra su dignidad." Heraldo de Aragón 23 July 2025.*

Greimas, Algirdas Julien. "Des accidents dans les sciences dites humaines: analyse d'un texte de Georges Dumézil." Introduction à l'analyse du discourse en sciences sociales. By A. J. Greimas and E. Landowski. Paris: Hachette, 1979.

_____. "Des accidents dans les sciences dites humaines: analyse d'un texte de Georges Dumézil." In Greimas, Du Sens II. Paris: Seuil, 1983. 171-212.*

Grishakova, Marina. "The Fascination of Failure: On Predictability, Unpredictability, and Postdictability in Art." In The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Literature and Film. Ed. M. Kiss and S. Willemsen. 2022. Online at Academia.*

         https://www.academia.edu/41372443/

         2023

Hernández, Patricia. "Samantha Hudson en USAL: Urge reivindicar el derecho a la mediocridad, a ser fracasada y a no tener ningún talento." Salamanca24horas.com 9 May 2023.*

         https://www.salamanca24horas.com/universidad/samantha-hudson-en-usal-urge-reivindicar-derecho-mediocridad-ser-fracasada-no-tener-ningun-talento_15077218_102.html

         2023

Iser, Wolfgang. "The Art of Failure: The Stifled Laugh in Beckett's Theater." In Iser, Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989. Pbk. 1993. 152-94.*

Jenkins, Alan. "A Lifelong Fidelity to Failure". TLS (14 November 1986): 1281-1282.* (Beckett).

Leach, Eleanor W. "Ekphrasis and the Theme of Artistic Failure in Ovid's Metamorphoses." Ramus 3 (1974): 102-4.

Levin, Harry. The Overreacher. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1952.

_____.  The Overreacher. London, 1954.

Marche, Stephen. On Writing and Failure.

Marina, José Antonio. Ética para náufragos.

_____.  La inteligencia fracasada: Teoría y práctica de la estupidez. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2004.

_____. La inteligencia fracasada: Teoría y práctica de la estupidez. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 2005.*

Martínez-Dueñas Espejo, José Luis, and Rocío G. Sumillera, eds. The Failed Text: Literature and Failure. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Molina Martínez, Julián. La creación imposible: Poética de las ficciones sobre el fracaso artístico desde la modernidad. MA diss. U Pompeu Fabra, 2011. Online at e-Repositori UPF.*

         http://hdl.handle.net/10230/12806

         2014

Morris, Ivan. The Nobility of Failure. 1975. (Yamato Takeru, Yorozu, Arima no Miko, Sugawara no Michizane, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Kusunoki Masashige, Amakusa Shiro, Oshio Heihachiro, Saigo Kakamori, kamikazes).

_____.  La nobleza del fracaso: Héroes trágicos de la historia de Japón. Trans. Paloma Tejada Caller. Madrid: Alianza, 2010.*

Pile, Stephen. The Book of Heroic Failures. Anecdotes. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

_____. The Return of Heroic Failures. Anecdotes. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Ricœur, Paul. Finitude et culpabilité. (Part II of Philosophie de la Volonté). Vol. 1: L'Homme faillible. Vol. 2: La Symbolique du mal. Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1960. 1988.

_____. Fallible Man: Philosophy and the Will. Trans. C. Kelbley. Chicago: Henry Regenery, 1965.

Roca Barea, María Elvira. Fracasología: España y sus élites. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 2019.* (Premio Espasa de Ensayo 2019; Spanish history, 17th-18th c.)

Rosati, Connie S. "Narrative and Personal Good." On the Human  4 Jan. 2010.*

         http://onthehuman.org/2010/01/narrative-and-personal-good/

         2010

Verdú, Vicente. El éxito y el fracaso. Temas de Hoy, 1991.

Villena, Luis Antonio de. Biografía del fracaso. Barcelona: Planeta, 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Alas, Leopoldo ("Clarín"). Su único hijo. Novel. 1891.

_____. Su único hijo. Ed. Carolyn Richmond. (Selecciones Austral). Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1980.

_____. Su único hijo. Ed. Juan Oleza. Madrid: Cátedra, 1990.

Eliot, George. Middlemarch: A Study of English Provincial Life. Novel. Ediburgh and London: Blackwood, 1871/2. many editions.

Landa Galindo, Víctor. "El abandono." In Landa, Inteligencia Artificial y otros cuentos. Monzón: BooksonLine, 2025. 281-94.* (Meaning of Life; Failure; Drinking).

Marías, Javier. Todas las almas. Novel. 1989. Premio Ciudad de Barcelona 1989. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1993.*

_____. Todas las almas. (Narrativa actual - Autores de lengua española, 62). Barcelona: RBA, 1994.*

Molina, Tirso de. El mayor desengaño. Drama.

O'Neill, Eugene. The Iceman Cometh. Drama. 1946.

Valle Inclán, Ramón María del. Luces de Bohemia. Drama. many editions.

 

 

 

Música

 

 

Bridges, Jeff. "Flyin' and Fallin'." From Crazy Heart. Video. YouTube (Tajl3r) 19 Feb. 2010.*

         https://youtu.be/XFCwSd5kr_k

         2020

 

Raphael. "Me olvidé de vivir." With Manu Carrasco. YouTube (RAPHAEL) 2020.*

         https://youtu.be/RRTylPXWjk8

         2022

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Atlas, Scott W. "A Pandemic of Failure by Academia, Science and Public Health: Will Trust Return / Will an Ethical Society Return?" Video lecture. (Stanford Academic Freedom Conference, Nov. 4-5, 2022). YouTube (Stanford Classical Liberalism Initiative) Nov. 2022.* (Covidianism, Censorship, Lockdowns).

         https://youtu.be/Inc9vMli5QQ

         2022

 

 

Busca y misión

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

The Quest pattern

 

 

Aarseth, Espen. "Quest Games as Post-Narrative Discourse." In Narrative across Media: The Languages of Storytelling. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2004. 361-76.*

Axelrod, Max. "The Poetics of the Quest in Cervantes' Don Quixote." In Axelrod, The Poetics of Novels: Fiction and Its Execution.  Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999. Rpt. Palgrave, c. 2001. 1-27.*

Auden, W. H. "The Quest Hero." In Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism.  Ed. Rose A. Zimbardo and Neil D. Isaacs. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 31-51.

Barber, C. L., and Richard Wheeler. The Whole Journey: Shakespeare's Power of Development. Berkeley: U of California P, 1986.

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. New York: Pantheon Books, 1949.

_____. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1968.

_____. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. London: Paladin-Grafton, 1988.*

_____. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Commemorative Edition. Princeton (NJ): Princeton UP, 2004.

_____. El héroe de las mil caras. México: FCE, 1984.

Chase, Richard. The Quest for Myth. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1949.

Eliade, Mircea. The Quest. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1969. (Religion, rites of passage, utopia, myth, cosmogony, quest).

_____. La Nostalgie des origines. Paris: Gallimard, 1971. Rpt. (Folio Essais, 164). 1991. 2005.*

Gimelli, Catherine. "On the Persistence of Quest-Romance in the Romantic Genre: The Strange Case of Pamela." Poetics Today 12.1 (1991): 87-110. *

Grimes, Joseph E., and Naomi Glock. "A Samaraccan Narrative Pattern." Language 46 (1970): 408-425.

Greimas, A. J. "Un problème de sémiologie narrative: Les objets de valeurs." Langages 31 (1973). Paris: Larousse.

_____. "Un problème de sémiotique narrative: Les objets de valeur." In Greimas, Du Sens II. Paris: Seuil, 1983. 19-48.*

_____. "Des accidents dans les sciences dites humaines: analyse d'un texte de Georges Dumézil." Introduction à l'analyse du discourse en sciences sociales. By A. J. Greimas and E. Landowski. Paris: Hachette, 1979.

_____. "Des accidents dans les sciences dites humaines: analyse d'un texte de Georges Dumézil." In Greimas, Du Sens II. Paris: Seuil, 1983. 171-212.*

Hassan, Ihab. "The Spirit of Quest in Contemporary American Letters." 1988. In Hassan, Rumors of Change: Essays of Four Decades. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1995. 187-207.*

Howard, Jeffrey. Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives.

Leeming, David Adams. Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.

Martín, Sara. "The Twelve Steps: Harry the Hero, a Common Mistake about Writing about Heroes, and a Scary Monster." The Joys of Teaching Literature

         http://blogs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/2014/03/09/the-twelve-steps-harry-the-hero-a-common-mistake-about-writing-on-heroes-and-a-scary-monster/

         2014

Noriega Sánchez, María Ruth. "A Male or a Female Quest? Silko's Ceremony and Morrison's Song of Solomon." 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. 545-49.*

Pilar Casto, Silvie del. "The Quest for Wholeness: Empowerment through Spirituality in African American Literature." In Power and Culture in America: Forms of Interaction and Renewal. Actas del V Congreso SAAS (Salamanca, 2001). Salamanca: Almar, 2002. 167-76.*

Propp, Vladimir. Morfologija skazky. 2nd ed. Leningrad: Nauka, 1968.

_____. Morphology of the Folktale. 1st. ed., trans. Laurence Scott, introd. Svatava Pirkova-Jakobson.; Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1958.

_____ . Morphology of the Folk Tale. Trans. Laurence Scott. 2nd. ed., rev. and ed. Louis A. Wagner, introd. Alan Dundes. Austin: U of Texas P, 1968. 1988.

_____. Morphologie du conte. Paris: Seuil, 1970.

_____. Morfologia della fiaba. With an answer to Lévi-Strauss. Trans. Gian Luigi Bravo. Turin: Einaudi, 1966.

_____. "Transformacii volshebnykh skazok." Poetika 4 (1928): 70-89.

_____. Morfología del cuento: Seguida de Las transformaciones de los cuentos maravillosos. E. Mélétinski El estudio estructural y tipológico del cuento. Trans. (from the French versions) Lourdes Ortiz. 3ª ed. Madrid: Fundamentos, 1977.

Segura, Eduardo. El viaje del anillo.

Stout, Janis P. The Journey Narrative in American Literature: Patterns and Departures. Westport (CT): Greeenwood, 1983.

Toker, Leona. "Pnin: The Quest that Overrides the Goal." In Toker, Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989. 21-35.*

Villegas, Juan. La estructura mítica del héroe en la novela del siglo XX. Barcelona: Planeta, 1978.*

Vogler, Christopher. The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structures fror Screenwriters and Storytellers. Studio City (CA): Michael Wiese Productions, 1992.

_____. The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters. Rev. ed. London: Boxtree, 1996.*

_____. El viaje del escritor: Las estructuras míticas para escritores, guionistas, dramaturgos y novelistas. Barcelona: Ma Non Troppo, 2002.

Walker, Jill. "A Network of Quests in World of Warcraft." In Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media. Ed. Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.

Watkins, Calvert. How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

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.*

Sánchez Dragó, Fernando. El camino del corazón. Novel. (Finalist of the Premio Planeta 1990).

_____. La prueba del laberinto. Novel. (Premio Planeta 1992).

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit. Novel. London: Allen & Unwin, 1937. 1951. 1966. 1978.

_____. The Hobbit. New York: Ballantine, 1973.

_____. The Hobbit. London: Unwin Hyman, 1982.

_____. The Hobbit. London: HarperCollins, 1991. 5th ed. (reset) 1995.

_____. El Hobbit: O historia de una ida y una vuelta. Trans. Manuel Figueroa. Barcelona: Minotauro, 1982. 1988. 1991. 1997. Rpt. (Tolkien). 2002. 2004.*

_____. The Lord of the Rings. Fantasy novel trilogy. London: Allen and Unwin, 1954-5. Vol. 1, The The Fellowship of the Ring; Vol. 2, The Two Towers; Vol. 3, The Return of the King.

_____. The Fellowship of the Ring. London: Allen and Unwin, 1954. 1966.

_____. The Fellowship of the Ring. New York: Ballantine, 1979.

_____. El Señor de los Anillos I: La Comunidad del Anillo.Trans. Luis Domènech. Barcelona: Minotauro, 1977. 1992. 1999. 2002. 2004. 2007. (Biblioteca Tolkien / Booket 5017/1). 2009.*

_____. El Señor de los Anillos I: La Comunidad del Anillo. Primera parte. Trans. Luis Domènech. (Biblioteca Tolkien). Barcelona: Minotauro / Planeta DeAgostini, 2002.*

_____. El Señor de los Anillos I: La Comunidad del Anillo. Segunda parte. Trans. Luis Domènech. (Biblioteca Tolkien). Barcelona: Minotauro / Planeta DeAgostini, 2002*

_____. The Two Towers. London: Allen and Unwin, 1954.

_____. The Lord of the Rings, II: The Two Towers. London: Allen and Unwin, 1954. 1966.

_____. The Two Towers. New York: Ballantine, 1969.

_____. El Señor de los Anillos II: Las Dos Torres. Trans. Matilde Horne and Luis Domènech. Barcelona: Minotauro, 1979.

_____. El Señor de los Anillos II: Las Dos Torres. Barcelona: Minotauro / Planeta DeAgostini, 2002*

_____. The Return of the King. London: Allen and Unwin, 1954. 1966.

_____. The Return of the King. New York: Ballantine, 1973.

_____. El Retorno del Rey. Barcelona: Minotauro, 1980.

_____. The Lord of the Rings. 2nd ed. London: Allen & Unwin, 1966.

_____. The Lord of the Rings. Illust. Alan Lee. London: HarperCollins, 1991.

_____. The Lord of the Rings. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

_____. El señor de los anillos. Trans. Matilde Horne, Luis Domènech and Rubén Masera. Illust. Alan Lee. Barcelona: Minotauro, 1993. Rpt. 1995. 1998. 1999. 2000 (2). 2001 (5). 2002 (4). 2003. 2004. 2005. 19th rpt. 2009.*

_____. El Señor de los Anillos. 4 vols. (With a reading guide). Barcelona: Minotauro, 2016.

 

 

 

 

 

Music

 

 

Berezhnoy, Denys. "La Quête." From L'Homme de La Manche. YouTube

         http://youtu.be/p4peVkosmKE

         2013

 

 

 

Video

 

 

 

Tinney, Steve. "Gilgamesh: Journeys to the End of the World." Video lecture. (Great Voyages). YouTube (Penn Museum) 10 Jan. 2014.*

https://youtu.be/46Xst2do8p4

         2022