348 INDEX
L
La Celestina (Fernando de Rojas) 78
La Comédie humaine (Balzac) 156,
160
La Fayette, Madame de, The Princess
of Cleves 104
La Fontaine, Jean de, Fables 90
La Jalousie (Robbe-Grillet) 288–89
La Regenta (Alas) 201
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de 101
Les Liaisons dangereuses 13,
100–01
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence)
260
The Lagoon and Other Stories
(Frame) 286
Lahiri, Jhumpa 317, 338
Interpreter of Maladies 338
Lamb, Lady Caroline, Glenarvon 185
Lamming, George, In the Castle of
My Skin 312
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
(Chrétien de Troyes) 19, 50–51
Lancelot-Grail cycle (Vulgate Cycle)
50
The Land (Park) 330
Laozi, Dao De Jing 54
Larkin, Philip, Whitsun Weddings 277
L’Assommoir (Zola) 166
The Last of the Crazy People
(Findley) 326
The Last of the Mohicans (Cooper)
122, 150
Latin American Boom 282–85
Lawrence, D. H. 241
Lady Chatterley’s Lover 260
Sons and Lovers 192, 240
Lazarillo de Tormes 78
Le Cid (Corneille) 103
Le Morte d’Arthur (Malory) 50, 51,
102
“Leatherstocking Tales” (Cooper)
122, 150, 188
Leaves of Grass (Whitman) 109, 125
Lee, Harper 273 , 278
Go Set a Watchman 273
To Kill a Mockingbird 249, 271,
272–73
Lermontov, Mikhail 108
A Hero of Our Time 124, 151–52
Leroux, Gaston, The Phantom of the
Opera 195
Les Amours de Cassandre (Ronsard)
74
Les Fleurs du mal (Baudelaire) 165
Les Lauriers sont coupés (Dujardin)
216
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Laclos)
13, 100–01
Les Miserables, (Hugo) 156, 166–67,
182
Les Nègres (Genet) 262
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, Nathan
the Wise 96
Letters Concerning the English
Nation (Voltaire) 97Letters of a Portuguese Nun
(Guilleragues) 100
Levi, Primo, Survival in Auschwitz 258
Levy, Andrea, Small Island 324
Lewis, C. S., Narnia series 171
Lewis, Matthew, The Monk 121
L’homme rapaillé (Miron) 332
Li Bai 19, 46
Life is a Dream (Calderón de la Barca)
78
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes 78
Life of Pi (Martel) 270, 338
Life A User’s Manual (Perec) 333
literature
definition and literary canon
12–13
global explosion 15
story of 13–14
vocabulary, expanded 15
Little Dorrit (Dickens) 109, 166
The Little Prince (Saint-Exupéry)
207, 238–39
Little Women (Alcott) 169, 199
Lolita (Nabokov) 186, 248, 260–61, 270
London, Jack 191
The Call of the Wild 240
Lönnrot, Elias, Kalevala 116, 151
Lope de Vega, New Rules for Writing
Plays at this Time 78
Lord of the Flies (Golding) 287
Lord Jim (Conrad) 203
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien) 287
Lost Generation literature 207,
228–33
The Lost World (Conan Doyle) 184
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
(Eliot) 213
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
(Monzaemon) 93
Love in the Time of Cholera (García
Márquez) 335
The Lover (Duras) 335
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare)
87, 88
Lu Xun
Call to Arms 207, 222
Old Tales Retold 222
Lucky Jim (Amis) 318
Luo Guanzhong 66
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
60, 66–67
The Lusiads (Camões) 62, 103
lyric poetry 49
Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth/
Coleridge) 108, 110M
Maalouf, Amin, The Rock of Tanios
337
Mabinogion 56 , 116
Macbeth (Shakespeare) 85, 87, 88,
144
McCabe, Patrick, The Butcher Boy
313
McCarthy, Mary, The Groves of
Academe 318McCullers, Carson, The Heart Is a
Lonely Hunter 272
McEwan, Ian 331
McInerney, Jay, Bright Lights, Big
City 313
Madame Bovary (Flaubert) 81, 146,
156, 158–63, 190
Madame de Treymes (Wharton) 186
The Madwoman in the Attic (Gilbert
and Gubar) 131
Magalhães, Gonçalves de, A
Confederação dos Tamoios 164
The Magic Mountain (Mann) 206–07,
224–27
magic realism 15, 234, 294, 295,
302–05
Mahabharata (Vyasa) 13, 18, 22–25, 28
Mahfouz, Naguib, The Cairo Trilogy
223
The Maias (Eça de Queirós) 202
Mailer, Norman 291
The Armies of the Night 291
Mallarmé, Stéphane 157
“The Afternoon of a Faun” 165
Malory, Sir Thomas, Le Morte
d’Arthur 50, 51, 102
The Maltese Falcon (Hammett) 236
A Man of Letters (Hussein) 223
The Man Without Qualities (Musil)
234, 243
Mann, Thomas 227
Buddenbrooks 194, 227
Death in Venice 194, 207, 224–25,
240
The Magic Mountain 206–07,
224–27
Marguerite de Navarre, The
Heptameron 68
Marlowe, Christopher 61, 89, 114
Doctor Faustus 60, 75
Martel, Yann, Life of Pi 270, 338
Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens) 186
Marvell, Andrew, Miscellaneous
Poems 91
Mary Barton (Gaskell) 153, 166
The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)
290–91
Maupassant, Guy de, Bel Ami 160
Mda, NoZakes, The Heart of Redness
322
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)
87, 88
Medea (Euripides) 55
Melville, Herman 140
Bartleby, the Scrivener 140
Moby-Dick 109, 138–45, 296
Memed, My Hawk (Kemal) 288
Men of Maize (Asturias) 282
metafiction 295, 298–99, 302–03
Metamorphoses (Ovid) 40, 55–56,
84
Metamorphosis (Kafka) 206, 210 –11,
234
Metaphysical Poets 91
Middlemarch (Eliot) 130–31, 156,
174, 182–83
Midnight’s Children (Rushdie) 227,
271, 294, 300–05, 314, 315A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Shakespeare) 85, 87, 88–89
The Mill on the Floss (Eliot) 128
Miller, Henry, Tropic of Cancer 243 ,
260
Milton, John 61, 103
Paradise Lost 62, 103 , 144
Mimes, Lessons, and Proverbs (Baif)
74
Miron, Gaston, L’homme rapaillé 332
The Misanthrope (Molière) 90
Miscellaneous Poems (Marvell) 91
Mishima, Yukio, The Temple of the
Golden Pavilion 263
Mitchell, David, Cloud Atlas 69
Mo Yan, Red Sorghum 310
Moby-Dick (Melville) 109, 138–45, 296
Modern Arabic voices 223
Modernism 15, 69, 200, 206–07, 224,
235
Modernist poetry 213 , 232
Moe, Jørgen, Norwegian Folktales 116
Molière 13, 61
The Misanthrope 90
Psyché 90
The Monk (Lewis) 121
Montalvo, Garci Rodríguez de,
Amadis of Gaul 102–03
Montesquieu, Persian Letters 96
Monzaemon, Chikamatsu, The Love
Suicides at Sonezaki 93
The Moonstone (Collins) 146, 149,
198–99, 208, 271
Morante, Elsa, History 332
More, Thomas, Utopia 252
Morrison, Toni 295, 309
Beloved 145, 294, 306–09
The Bluest Eye 307, 309
Song of Solomon 307, 309
Sula 307
Moses Ascending (Selvon) 324
Mother Courage and Her Children
(Brecht) 238, 244–45
Mr. President (Asturias) 282
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf) 182, 217, 242
multiculturalism 294–95, 324–25
Munro, Alice 337
Dance of the Happy Shades 337
Selected Stories 337
Too Much Happiness 326
Murakami, Haruki
Kafka on the Shore 302, 319
Norwegian Wood 319
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 319
Murakami, Ryu, In the Miso Soup
319
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
19, 47 , 61, 174
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Poe)
208
Musäus, Johann Karl August 116
Musil, Robert, The Man Without
Qualities 234, 243
My Name is Red (Pamuk) 338
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe)
120
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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