Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

well, and religious commitment has played a major role in this issue. Identity as a product of one’s relationship with the Almig ...

Mississippi homes, which have been in their respec- tive families for generations. Modernists entertained new approaches to a ne ...

bout of the flu, a chronic painful condition, a disabil- ity, or a life-threatening disease. Because all readers, even if we hav ...

a “gatekeeper” to success. A healthy body and mind is the basic condition, he says, for functioning in a democracy and “too low ...

Noel Evans and the author with the assistance of Brian Massumi. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985. Gerhardt, Uta. Ide ...

“isolation amid crowds” understandably gave rise to Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism and Albert Camus’s sense of the absurd. Al ...

against the superior power of the white man in thinGs FaLL apart. Nonetheless, society is not an unmixed blessing. Pip, in Charl ...

time of innocence can only be recognized retrospec- tively, from the vantage point of experience. Blake takes this tension betwe ...

sense, however, Marlow’s transition into experience can be seen to represent the larger experience of European colonialism. As h ...

others toward extraordinary creativity and innova- tion as a result of having been forced to rely solely on their own minds as a ...

ing her from her beloved sister, Nettie. After Celie goes to live at Mister’s house, he in turn isolates her, keeping her like a ...

justice The desire to be treated fairly, and to see others treated fairly, is a fundamental human impulse. We seek justice in ou ...

“equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally—but in proportion to their relevant simi- larities and differences” (Bu ...

tartuFFe; Paine, Thomas: aGe oF reason, the; Pirandello, Luigi: six characters in search oF an author; Shakespeare, William: haM ...

the nonhuman, whether animals, things, or ideas. Pastoral works of poetry and fiction, for instance, celebrate the relationships ...

See also Augustine, Saint: conFessions oF st. auGustine, the; Bambara, Toni Cade: saLt eat- ers, the; Bradbury, Ray: Martian chr ...

Scripture or other foundational texts of each point or idea presented within a text, probably did more than any other group to c ...

Vienna, the pageantry of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra on the barge, the splendor of Elizabeth I’s reign, the glory of King Arthur’s l ...

many different forms, with the central factor upon which a movement is based being, for instance, religious, political, ethnic, ...

all but is explored literally, in largely unambiguous language. In poems such as “Easter 1916,” “To Ire- land in the Coming Time ...