and mythology, 64 -65
and one story, 191
and physical deformities, 194
and seasons, 177 ,182 ,184
and U.S. as Christian culture, 118 -20
and violence, 88
and weather, 76
See also Christ figures; Christian tradition
The Big Sleep (Chandler), 180
“Big Two-Hearted River” (Hemingway), 198
Billy Budd (Melville), 117 -18
“Birches” (Frost), 106 ,133 -34
Bishop, Elizabeth, 80
Bizet, Georges, 39
Bleak House (Dickens), 80
blindness, 201 -6
Blindness (Green), 206
The Bloody Chamber (Carter), 60
Bloom, Harold, 36
Bloom, Leopold, 159 -60
“Bluebeard” (fairy tale), 60
Bogart, Humphrey, 136
“Bogland” (Heaney), 172
Boland, Eavan, 6 ,110
Bowles, Paul, 171
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 33 ,244