The Literature Book

259 See also: Les Misérables 166 – 67 ■ Their Eyes Were Watching God 235 ■ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 291 T he African-Amer ...

260 LOLITA LIGHT OF MY LIFE FIRE OF MY LOINS. MY SIN MY SOUL LOLITA (1955), VLADIMIR NABOKOV L iterary history is punctuated wit ...

261 Literature is often perceived as a threat by authorities because of its ability to convey ideas that have the potential to c ...

262 See also: Metamorphosis 210 –11 ■ The Trial 242 ■ Nausea 244 ■ The Outsider 245 T he theater of the absurd, in which the acc ...

263 See also: The Love Suicides at Sonezaki 93 I n the decades leading up to World War II, Japan was an aggressive military stat ...

264 HE WAS BEAT— THE ROOT THE SOUL OF BEATIFIC ON THE ROAD (1957), JACK KEROUAC spontaneous form of existence in their quest to ...

265 See also: The Red Room 185 ■ The Catcher in the Rye 256–57 ■ Howl and Other Poems 288 ■ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 332 P ...

266 WHAT IS GOOD AMONG ONE PEOPLE IS AN ABOMINATION WITH OTHERS THINGS FALL APART (1958), CHINUA ACHEBE P ublished in 1958, Chin ...

267 See also: Heart of Darkness 196–97 ■ Disgrace 322–23 ■ Half of a Yellow Sun 339 The novel’s title is taken from W. B. Yeats’ ...

268 sharecropper to become wealthy, building up the storehouses of yams and coffers of cowries that signify prosperity. His seco ...

269 tunes of evangelism.” For Nwoye, Christian hymns not only have the “power to pluck at the silent and dusty chords in the hea ...

270 EVEN WALLPAPER HAS A BETTER MEMORY THAN HUMAN BEINGS THE TIN DRUM (1959), GÜNTER GRASS T he term “unreliable narrator” refer ...

271 Unreliable narrators come in different guises: some are liars or conceal facts, others are unstable, confused, or manipulati ...

272 I THINK THERE’S JUST ONE KIND OF FOLKS. FOLKS. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1960), HARPER LEE B uilding on the traditions of 18th- ...

273 See also: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 188–89 ■ The Sound and the Fury 242–43 ■ Invisible Man 259 ■ In Cold Blood 278– ...

274 NOTHING IS LOST IF ONE HAS THE COURAGE TO PROCLAIM THAT ALL IS LOST AND WE MUST BEGIN ANEW HOPSCOTCH (1963), JULIO CORTÁZAR ...

275 See also: Don Quixote 76–81 ■ Tristram Shandy 104 – 05 ■ The Outsider 245 ■ If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler 298–99 POSTWAR ...

276 See also: The Crying of Lot 49 290 ■ Slaughterhouse-Five 291 ■ American Psycho 313 W ith a fascination for the morbid and th ...

277 See also: The Waste Land 213 ■ The Bell Jar 290 ■ Crow 291 T he political, cultural, and personal landscape of the generatio ...

278 THERE’S GOT TO BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH US. TO DO WHAT WE DID IN COLD BLOOD (1966), TRUMAN CAPOTE T he term “New Journalism” ...