Chesterton, G. K., 238-39, 240
A Child’s Garden of Verses (Stevenson), 188
Chopin, Frédéric, 218
Christ figure, 117-24, 127, 182, 238, 239, 242-44
Christian tradition, 117-24, 127, 133, 183, 191
Christie, Agatha, 39
A Christmas Carol (Dickens), 17, 33, 108-9
“Cinderella” (fairy tale), 63
The Cisco Kid (film), 190
Clea (Durrell), 147
Cleese, John, 37
Clemens, Sam. See Twain, Mark
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), 147-48, 242-44
Coen, Joel and Ethan, 71
communion, acts of, 7-14
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Twain), 189
Conrad, Joseph, 170-71, 210-11
Cooper, James Fenimore, 231
Coover, Robert, 59-60, 63
Crane, Hart, 103, 104-5, 153
Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon), 3-5
p. 304 Cunningham, Michael, 223-24
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 176-77
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
D
“Daisy Miller” (James), 18-20, 177-78, 219-20
Damned Yankees (musical), 199
Dante Alighieri, 63, 84, 208, 275
“The Dead” (Joyce), 12-14, 78, 79, 80-81, 218, 226-27
Dean, James, 47-48
Death in Venice (Mann), 170
Death Valley Days (TV show), 37-38
deconstruction, 229
The Devil and Daniel Webster (Benét), 199
Dexter, Colin, 209-10
Dickens, Charles
borrowing from, 33
and disease, 218, 224
and flights of fancy, 131
ghosts of, 17
and politics, 108-9, 110
and sex, 141-42
and violence, 90, 96
and weather, 80
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Tyler), 12
disease, 207-25
Disney, Walt, 59
Divine Comedy (Dante), 275
A Doll’s House (Ibsen), 220-21
Dombey and Son (Dickens), 218, 224
Donne, John, 51, 208
Dr. Faustus (Marlowe), 199
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 200
Dracula (film), 16
Dracula (Stoker), 15-16
Dryden, John, 65
Dubliners (Joyce), 214-15
Durrell, Lawrence, 147, 169-70, 171, 198, 221-22
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
E
East of Eden (film), 47-48
East of Eden (Steinbeck), 47-48, 50
Eastwood, Clint, 48-49, 190
Easy Rider (film), 235, 280-81
eating
as communion, 7-14
by vampires, 15-21
“An Echo from Willow-Wood” (Rossetti), 25-27
Eliot, T. S.
and Bible, 52
and borrowing from Shakespeare, 43-44
and creating stories, 32
and fairy/folk tales, 58-59
and intent, 83
and one story, 189
and originality, 189
and physical deformities, 196
and seasons, 182-83
and symbolism, 103, 104-5
and weather, 78-79
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 51, 111, 218
The Epic of Gilgamesh, 32
p. 305 Erdrich, Louise, 65, 155-57
E.T. (film), 128
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
F
The Faerie Queen (Spenser), 4, 51
fairy/folk tales, 57-63, 64-65, 194-95
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe), 112, 166-67
The Far Field (Roethke), 172
“A Farewell” (Peele), 237
A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway), 78, 198, 237-38, 239
Faulkner, William, 39, 50, 83, 84, 89, 93-95, 164
Faust (Goethe), 199
“Fern Hill” (Thomas), 183
Fielding, Henry, 9
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 215
“The Fish” (Bishop), 80
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 32, 96
Flaubert, Gustave, 89
flights of fancy, 125-34, 267-69, 280
Ford, Ford Madox, 207
Forster, E. M., 99-102, 169, 170, 171, 240-41
Fort Apache (film), 190
Four Quartets (Eliot), 52
Fowles, John, 145-46, 189
“The Fox” (Lawrence), 21, 92-93
Frampton, Peter, 54-55
Frankenstein (Shelley), 193, 198-200
Frazer, James, 136, 139
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Fowles), 145-46, 189
Freud, Sigmund, 7, 72, 83, 135-36, 139, 141
From Ritual to Romance (Weston), 79
Frost, Robert, 88-89, 96, 105-6, 133-34, 165, 179-80, 188, 235
Frye, Northrop, 29, 118-19, 190, 191, 236, 240
Fuentes, Carlos, 110
Fugard, Athol, 44-46
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
G
“The Garden Party” (Mansfield), 245-77, 280
Gardner, John, 33
Gass, William H., 80
geography, 163-74
Ghostbusters (film), 57
ghosts, 16-21
Ghosts (Ibsen), 221
Gilligan’s Island (TV program), 39
“The Gingerbread House” (Coover), 59-60
Ginsberg, Allen, 52
Go Down, Moses (Faulkner), 50, 94-95
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin), 55
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 199
Gogol, Nikolai, 33
Going After Cacciato (O’Brien), 29-32, 34, 36, 168-69
p. 306 Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 33
The Good Soldier (film), 207-8, 212
Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown), 59
Grahame, Kenneth, 59
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 186
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), 32
great works/writers, 58
Green, Henry, 80, 206
Grendel (Gardner), 33
Greville, Fulke, 45
Grimm Brothers, 62, 63
Guest, Judith, 153-54, 155
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
H
Hamilton, Jane, 161
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 17, 26, 33, 35, 36, 39, 43-44, 59, 134, 186
“Hansel and Gretel” (fairy tale), 31, 59-60, 61, 63
Hardy, Thomas, 20, 76, 164, 189
Harry Potter (Rowling), 195, 200
Hawking, Stephen, 186
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 51, 210, 211
“A Hazy Shade of Winter” (song), 178
Heaney, Seamus, 110, 133, 172
heart/heart disease, 207-12
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 170-71
The Hearts and Lives of Men (Weldon), 95-96, 131, 132
Hemingway, Ernest
and Bible, 51
borrowing from, 30, 31
and Christ figures, 121, 122
and geography, 164, 171, 173-74
and intent, 83
and irony, 237-38, 239
and one story, 191
and physical deformities, 196-98
and sex, 145
and violence, 96
and weather, 78
Henry IV, Part II (Shakespeare), 44-45
Henry V (Shakespeare), 45
Henry VI, Part II (Shakespeare), 177
Heraclitus, 154-55
High Noon (film), 190
Hill, Geoffrey, 52
Hitchcock, Alfred, 137-38
Homer
borrowing from, 270
and fairy/folk tales, 58
and heart, 208
and intent, 83
and mythology, 69-70, 71, 72, 73
and one story, 191
and perspective/viewpoint, 231, 232
; and physical deformities, 208
and symbolism, 280
and violence, 96
p. 307 Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 51
“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” (Lawrence), 160-61
Hotel du Lac (Brookner), 184
The Hours (Cunningham), 223-24
Howards End (Forster), 240-41
Hugo, Victor, 193, 200
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Hugo), 193, 200
“A Hunger Artist” (Kafka), 20, 128-29
Huxley, Aldous, 39
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
I
Ibsen, Henrik, 110, 216, 220-21
The Iliad (Homer), 58, 69-70, 208, 231, 232, 280
illness, 207-15
Illness as Metaphor (Sontag), 218
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde), 240
“In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (Auden), 178-79
“In Praise of Limestone” (Auden), 172-73
“In Praise of Prairie” (Roethke), 171
Indiana Jones. See Raiders of the Lost Ark (film)
“Innocent Eréndira” (Márquez), 20-21
“intentionalism,” 82-86
intertextuality, 34-35, 43, 189-90
Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 86
irony, 62-63, 71, 78, 105, 129, 217, 235-44
Irving, Washington, 113-14
J
“Jack and the Beanstalk” (fairy tale), 32
Jackson, Samuel L., 47
James, Henry, 17, 18-20, 177-78, 189, 217, 219-20
“Janus” (Beattie), 138, 139, 142
Jeffers, Robinson, 52
Johnson, Robert, 199
“Journey of the Magi” (Eliot), 52
Joyce, James
and baptism/rebirth, 159-60
and Bible, 49-50
and blindness, 203-4
and borrowing, 33, 270
and disease, 213, 214-15, 218
and eating as communion, 12-14
and fairy/folk tales, 58
and flights of fancy, 132-33
and intent, 83
and irony, 244
and mythology, 71-72
and originality, 187
and perspective/viewpoint, 226-27
and sex, 145
and viewpoint, 226-27
and violence, 89
and weather, 78, 80-81
Jung, Carl, 136, 139, 190-91
Justine (Durrell), 147, 221
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
K
p. 308 Kafka, Franz, 20, 72, 128-29, 218, 244
Kangaroo (Lawrence), 170
Kasden, Lawrence, 205
Kashpaw/Nanapush novels (Erdrich), 65
Keats, John, 86, 217, 218
Kerouac, Jack, 171, 186, 189, 235
King, Stephen, 20
Kingsolver, Barbara, 167
King Lear (Shakespeare), 39, 40, 176
Kiss Me, Kate (musical), 37
L
La Bohème (opera), 218
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 139, 144, 145, 151, 170
Landscape with Fall of Icarus (Brueghel), 67
“Landscape with Fall of Icarus” (Williams), 67-68
The Last of the Mohicans (Cooper), 231
Lawrence, D. H.
and baptism/rebirth, 159-61
and disease, 218
and eating as vampirism/cannabalism, 21
and geography, 170, 171, 174
and intent, 83
Mansfield as model for, 265
and politics, 111
and sex, 139-41, 143, 144, 151
and violence, 89, 91-93, 96
and weather, 75, 79
Le Fanu, J. S., 17, 20
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Irving), 113-14
Lessing, Doris, 149
Lewis, C. S., 59
Light in August (Faulkner), 95
“Little Red Riding Hood” (fairy tale), 60
Lolita (Nabokov), 147, 148-49, 211
Lord, Audre, 110
Lord Jim (Conrad), 171, 210-11
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), 6, 191
Love Medicine (Erdrich), 155-57
“The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Eliot), 43-44
Loy, Mina, 58, 149
“Lycidas” (Milton), 89
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
M
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 89
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 89
“Maggie May” (song), 184
The Magic Mountain (Mann), 218
Malory, Thomas, 51
The Maltese Falcon (Chandler), 186
The Maltese Falcon (film), 136
Malthus, Thomas, 108-9
The Mamas & the Papas, 178
“The Man of Adamant” (Hawthorne), 210, 211
Mann, Thomas, 117-18, 170, 218
p. 309 Mansfield, Katherine, 83, 218, 265, 280
A Map of the World (Hamilton), 161
Marlowe, Christopher, 96, 199
Marlowe, Philip, 96
Márquez, Gabriel García, 20-21, 110, 130-31
Marvell, Andrew, 208
“The Masque of the Red Death” (Poe), 112, 224-25
“Master Harold” . . . and the Boys (play), 44-46
The Master of Ballantrae (Stevenson), 17, 200
Mazursky, Paul, 38
Melville, Herman, 231, 235
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), 232-33
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 72
“The Metamorphosis” (Kafka), 20, 72
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare), 38, 40, 177
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (film), 38
Miller, Henry, 147
Milton, John, 27, 51, 63, 89, 96
Moby-Dick (Melville), 231
Moonlighting (TV program), 37
Morphology of the Folktale (Propp), 194-95
Morrison, Toni
and baptism/rebirth, 157-59, 161-62
and Bible, 48-49, 53-54
and fairy/folk tales, 63
and flights of fancy, 127-28, 129
and geography, 167-68
and mythology, 65-67
and one story, 32
and physical deformities, 195
and politics, 110
and violence, 87-88, 91
and weather, 77
Mountolive (Durrell), 147, 221-22
“Move It on Over” (song), 138
“Mowing” (Frost), 105-6
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), 116, 223, 224, 241
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare), 33, 35, 39
Murdoch, Iris, 21, 149, 153, 161, 241-42
“Musée des Beaux Arts” (Auden), 67, 68
mythology, 64-73, 75, 126-27, 181-83, 191-92, 197, 231-32, 271, 273-77
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
N
Nabokov, Vladimir, 147, 148-49, 211, 244
Napoleon Symphony (Burgess), 165
Narnia novels (C. S. Lewis), 59
Nelson, Willie, 192
“Night Moves” (song), 178
Nights at the Circus (Carter), 128-29
Nightwood (Barnes), 149
p. 310 Nin, Anaïs, 149
North by Northwest (film), 6, 138
Notorious (film), 137-38
O
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (film), 71
Oates, Joyce Carol, 149
O’Brien, Edna, 149
O’Brien, Tim, 29-32, 34, 36, 63, 168-69
O’Connor, Flannery, 32, 121, 161
The Odyssey (Homer), 69, 70, 71, 72, 83, 191, 208, 270
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles), 115-16, 195-96, 206
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), 5, 72, 193, 195, 202, 203, 204, 219
Of Time and the River (Wolfe), 218
The Old Curiosity Shop (Dickens), 90
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway), 121, 122, 164, 191
Omeros (Walcott), 69, 71, 72, 73
On the Road (Kerouac
), 186, 189
Ordinary People (Guest), 153-54, 155
Oresteia (Aeschylus), 84
originality, 28-36, 185-92
Orwell, George, 98
Othello (Shakespeare), 39, 44
Othello (TV show), 38
Our Mutual Friend (Dickens), 142
“Out, Out—” (Frost), 88-89, 106
“The Overcoat” (Gogol), 33
“The Overcoat II” (Boyle), 33
Ovid, 72, 96
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
P
Pale Rider (film), 48-49
Paradise Lost (Milton), 27, 51
Paradise Regained (Milton), 51
Parks, Tim, 50
Party Going (Green), 80
Pascal, Blaise, 27
A Passage to India (Forster), 99-102, 169, 240
“The Pedersen Kid” (Gass), 80
Peele, George, 237
“The Pentecost Castle” (Hill), 52
perspective, 226-34
physical deformities, 193-200
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde), 200
pigeonholing, 6
Pilgrim’s Progress, 98
The Plague (Camus), 219
Plath, Sylvia, 188
Plato, 100
The Plumed Serpent (Lawrence), 170
Poe, Edgar Allan, 20, 112-13, 114, 166-67, 224-25
politics, 108-16
Porter, Cole, 37
p. 311 The Portrait of a Lady (James), 217
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Joyce), 132-33, 215
Pound, Ezra, 23, 83, 110, 233-34, 277
The Prince and the Pauper (Twain), 200
Propp, Vladimir, 194-95
psychological realism, 18
Puccini, Giacomo, 218
Pulp Fiction (film), 47
“Puss-in-Boots” (fairy tale), 60
Pynchon, Thomas, 3-5, 63, 111, 186
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
Q
quests, 1-6
Quin, Ann, 153
R
Rabbit, Run (Updike), 161
Raiders of the Lost Ark (film), 72, 190, 205
The Rainbow (Lawrence), 79
Rains, Claude, 137-38
“Rapunzel” (fairy tale), 61, 63
Reagan, Ronald, 38
Red River (film), 190
Reed, Ishmael, 6
The Remorseful Day (Dexter), 209-10
The Republic (Plato), 100
Rice, Anne, 15
Rich, Adrienne, 52, 110
Richard III (Shakespeare), 42, 176, 193, 194, 280
Richardson, Dorothy, 58
“The River” (O’Connor), 161
“The Road Not Taken” (Frost), 106, 186
Robbins, Tom, 235
“The Rocking-Horse Winner” (Lawrence), 140-41
Roethke, Theodore, 23, 153, 171-72
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 38-39, 42
A Room with a View (Forster), 169
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard), 39
Rossetti, Christina, 25-27
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 25, 52
Rowling, J. K., 195, 200
Rumpelstiltskin (fairy tale), 59
Rushdie, Salman, 52-53, 95, 96, 131, 132, 244
Russell, Ken, 139-40
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
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