The Literature Book

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Africa and the West. Writing with feminist overtones, Adichio also questions the ethics of Western journ ...

aesthetic Concerning beauty and the appreciation of beauty; as a noun, used to denote the set of principles and ideas that defin ...

GLOSSARY often contains elements of anxiety, loneliness, and paranoia in characters’ reactions to a meaningless universe. fable ...

neoclassicism A fascination with the ideals of classical Greece and Rome that was prevalent in the arts in Europe during the Enl ...

troubadour A traveling composer and singer in the courts of medieval Europe. The troubadours were usually artists of noble birth ...

344 Numbers in bold refer to main entries. 38th parallel 330 2666 (Bolaño) 339 A Abe, Ko ̄bo ̄, The Woman in the Dunes 263 Abu a ...

INDEX 345 The Call of the Wild (London) 240 Calvino, Italo 295, 299 The Castle of Crossed Destinies 274 If on a Winter’s Night a ...

346 INDEX Dracula (Stoker) 157, 195 Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao) 66 “The Dream of the Rood” 42 Dream Story (Schnitzler) 194 Dr ...

INDEX 347 H Habila, Helon, Waiting for an Angel 266 haiku and haibun 92 , 209 Haley, Alex 307 Roots 306, 333 Half of a Yellow Su ...

348 INDEX L La Celestina (Fernando de Rojas) 78 La Comédie humaine (Balzac) 156, 160 La Fayette, Madame de, The Princess of Clev ...

INDEX 349 NO Nabokov, Vladimir 261 Lolita 186, 248, 260–61, 270 Nachtstücke (Hoffmann) 111 , 120 Naevius, Gnaeus 40 Naipaul, V. ...

350 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge) 144 The Rivals (Quinault) 90 Rob Roy (Scott) 122 Robbe-Grillet, Alain, La Jalous ...

351 Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston) 207, 235 Theogony (Hesiod) 28, 54 Thérèse Raquin (Zola) 198 Things Fall Apart (Achebe ...

352 Dorling Kindersley would like to thank: Margaret McCormack for providing the index; Christopher Westhorp for proofreading th ...