INDEX 349
NO
Nabokov, Vladimir 261
Lolita 186, 248, 260–61, 270
Nachtstücke (Hoffmann) 111 , 120
Naevius, Gnaeus 40
Naipaul, V. S. 294
A House For Mr Biswas 289
Naked Lunch (Burroughs) 260, 264
Naoya, Shiga, A Dark Night’s Passing
209
Narayan, R. K. 315
Narnia series (Lewis) 171
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass (Douglass) 109,
126–27
The Narrow Road to the Interior
(Basho ̄) 61, 92
Nathan the Wise (Lessing) 96
Native Son (Wright) 259
Naturalism 190–91, 219
Nausea (Sartre) 210, 244
The Nazi and the Barber (Hilsenrath)
258
Négritude literary movement 196
Negro literature 235
Neuromancer (Gibson) 334–35
New Grub Street (Gissing) 190
New Journalism 278–79
New Rules for Writing Plays at this
Time (Lope de Vega) 78
The New York Trilogy (Auster) 298,
336
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the
Crow 339
Nibelungenlied 57
Nietzsche, Friedrich, Thus Spoke
Zarathustra 210
Nigerian voices 266–69
Nights at the Circus (Carter) 302
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell) 248,
250–55, 261
Njal’s Saga 52–53
“A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day”
(Donne) 91
Nordic sagas 52–53
North and South (Gaskell) 153
Northup, Solomon 109
Twelve Years a Slave 127
Norwegian Folktales (Asbjørnsen/
Moe) 116
Norwegian Wood (Murakami) 319
Nostromo (Conrad) 240
Notes from the Underground
(Dostoyevsky) 219
novel of manners 118 –19
O’Brien, Flann, At Swim-Two-Birds
274
“Ode to a Nightingale” (Keats) 110
Odyssey (Homer) 18, 33, 38, 41, 54 ,
62, 220–21, 312
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
34–39
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) 244
O ̄gais, Mori, The Dancing Girl 209
Okri, Ben, The Famished Road 269
The Old Curiosity Shop (Dickens) 146Old English poetry 42–43
Old French 48 , 51
Old Goriot (Balzac) 151
The Old Man and the Sea
(Hemingway) 287
Old Tales Retold (Lu) 222
Oliver Twist (Dickens) 134, 151
Omeros (Walcott) 294, 312
omniscient narrator 182–83
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
156, 190
On the Road (Kerouac) 185, 248,
264–65
Ondaatje, Michael
The English Patient 336
In the Skin of a Lion 324
One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn) 289
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(Kesey) 271, 289
One Hundred Years of Solitude
(García Márquez) 249, 280–85,
302
One Thousand and One Nights 14,
19, 44–45, 68
O ̄oka, Sho ̄hei, Fires on the Plain 263
Oresteia (Aeschylus) 54–55
Orlando Furioso (Ariosto) 63
Orwell, George 252
Animal Farm 245 , 248, 252, 253,
320
Nineteen Eighty-Four 248,
250–55, 261
Oscar and Lucinda (Carey) 311
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Capote)
279
Oulipo group 299, 333
Our Mutual Friend (Dickens) 166
The Outsider (Camus) 211, 245 , 262
Ovid 28, 71
Ars Amatoria (Art of Love) 57
Metamorphoses 40, 55–56, 84
Owen, Wilfred
“Dulce et Decorum Est” 206, 212
Poems 206, 207, 212
“Ozymandias” (Shelley) 110P
Palahniuk, Chuck, Fight Club 313
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Tutuola)
266
Pamela (Richardson) 94, 100, 104,
118, 174, 217
Pamuk, Orhan, My Name is Red 338
Paradise Lost (Milton) 62, 103 , 144
Park Kyong-ni, The Land 330
Paroles (Prévert) 286
A Passage to India (Forster) 196,
241– 42
Pasternak, Boris, Doctor Zhivago
288
pathetic fallacy 192–93
Paton, Alan, Cry, the Beloved Country
286 , 322
Pedro Páramo (Rulfo) 287–88
People of the City (Ekwensi) 266Perdita (Scharper) 326
Perec, Georges, Life A User’s Manual
333
Perfume (Süskind) 227
Perrault, Charles
“Cendrillon” 117
Tales of Mother Goose 116
Persian Letters (Montesquieu) 96
Pessoa, Fernando, The Book of
Disquiet 216, 244
Peter Pan (Barrie) 169
Petrarch 72, 74
The Phantom of the Opera (Leroux)
195
Phèdre (Racine) 90, 103–04
philosophes 96–97
picaresque novel 78, 127
The Pickwick Papers (Dickens) 146,
147
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
157, 194 , 195
“Pierre Menard, Author of the
Quixote” (Borges) 81
The Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan) 330
The Pillow Book (Sei Sho ̄nagon) 19,
47, 56
Pinter, Harold, The Caretaker 262
The Pioneers (Cooper) 122, 188
Plath, Sylvia
Ariel 276
The Bell Jar 185, 256, 290
Playing for Thrills (Wang) 336
The Pléiade 74
Ploughman of Bohemia (Johannes
von Tepl) 72
The Plum in the Golden Vase 66
Poe, Edgar Allan 109, 134, 141, 207,
327
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
208
“The Raven” 140
Tales of the Grotesque and
Arabesque 152
Poems (Owen) 206, 207, 212
Poetics (Aristotle) 39 , 90
Poppy and Memory (Celan) 238, 258
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man (Joyce) 217, 225, 241 , 256
The Portrait of a Lady (James) 157,
174, 186–87
Possession: A Romance (Byatt) 318
post 9/11 America 331
postclassical epic poetry 62–63
postwar Japanese writing 263
postwar poetry 277
The Postman Always Rings Twice
(Cain) 236
Pound, Ezra 206, 216, 230
Cantos 213
The Prelude (Wordsworth) 168
Prévert, Jacques, Paroles 286
Pride and Prejudice (Austen) 12, 108,
118 –19
The Prince of Homburg (von Kleist)
111
The Princess of Cleves (La Fayette)
104
The Prophet (Gibran) 223Prose Edda (Sturluson) 52
protest novel 259
Proust, Marcel 217
In Search of Lost Time 216,
240– 41
Psyché (Molière/Corneille/Quinault)
90
psychological realism 172–77
Puranas (Hindu texts) 22
Purple Hibiscus (Adichie) 269, 339
Pushkin, Alexander 108
Eugene Onegin 109, 124
Tales of Belkin 178
Pynchon, Thomas 296
Bleeding Edge 296, 331
The Crying of Lot 49 276, 290 ,
296
Gravity’s Rainbow 294, 295,
296–97
V. 296QR
Qu Yuan, Songs of Chu 46, 55
Quan Tangshi 46
Quinault, Philippe
Psyché 90
The Rivals 90
“Rabbit” series (Updike) 328
Rabelais, François 73 , 219
Gargantua and Pantagruel 60, 61,
72–73, 260
Racine, Jean 61
Phèdre 90, 103–04
Radcliffe, Ann, The Mysteries of
Udolpho 120
The Radetzky March (Roth) 238
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the
Flak Catchers (Wolfe) 278
Ramayana (Valmiki) 18, 22, 23, 25, 55
Rand, Ayn, The Fountainhead 245
“The Raven” (Poe) 140
“Recitation” (Qur’an) 44
The Recognitions (Gaddis) 328
The Red Badge of Courage (Crane)
190, 202
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
150–51, 160, 174
Red Harvest (Hammett) 236
The Red Room (Strindberg) 185
Red Sorghum (Mo) 310
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(Hamid) 331, 339
Renaissance humanism 14, 72–73
René (Chateaubriand) 150
Return to My Native Land (Césaire)
312
Rhinocéros (Ionesco) 262
Rhys, Jean, Wide Sargasso Sea 131,
290
Richard III (Shakespeare) 87, 88, 89
Richardson, John, Wacousta 326
Richardson, Samuel 104
Clarissa 100, 104
Pamela 94, 100, 104, 118, 174, 217
Rimbaud, Arthur, A Season in Hell
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