Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

1192 Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

Afrikaners II:494, 495
afterlife I:313, 314
age II:729; III:969
Age of Innocence, The (Wharton)
III:1122–1126
Age of Reason, The (Paine) III:857–860
aggression II:802
aging III:1078, 1187–1188
AIDS II:688–691
Albee, Edward I:133–137
alcoholism
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof III:1151–
1153
Crime and Punishment I:360–361
family I:31
House Made of Dawn II:785
Iceman Cometh III:843–846
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistf ight in
Heaven I:142
Long Day’s Journey into Night III:847
Alcott, Louisa May I:137–141
family I:31
illness I:56
parenthood I:80
success I:109
Alexie, Sherman I:9–10, 141–144
Alger, Horatio I:108
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
I:257–261
alienation I:3–5
American Tragedy, An I:370
Angels in America II:688–689
Awakening I:283
Bend in the River III:819, 820
Black Boy III:1181
Bluest Eye II:796
Cane III:1074–1075
“Cathedral” I:261–262
“Civil Disobedience” III:1057, 1058
In Cold Blood I:255
commodification/commercialization
I:16
community I:20
The Crucible II:764–765
Dubliners II:631
futility I:38
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter II:742–743
Heart of Darkness I:298, 300
House Made of Dawn II:785–786
Iceman Cometh III:844
Leaves of Grass III:1136
Lesson before Dying II:470–471
Long Day’s Journey into Night
III:847
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
I:384–385
Martian Chronicles I:222–223

Native Son III:1185, 1186

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

II:633–634

religion I:92

“Rose for Emily, A” II:429

Steppenwolf II:562–563

Sun Also Rises II:552–553

“Tell-Tale Heart” III:880

The Tempest III:967–968

Tender Is the Night II:442–443

U.S.A. trilogy I:355–357

Waste Land I:387–388

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I:134–135

work I:121

Allende, Isabel I:144–148

alliterative verse I:163–167

All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy)

II:739–742

Almanac of the Dead (Silko) III:984–987

Alvarez, Julia I:148–150

ambition I:5–8

American Tragedy, An I:369–370

Bell Jar III:870–871

Cannery Row III:1009–1010

Doctor Faustus II:732–733

Fathers and Sons III:1081

Frankenstein III:980

Frogs I:168–169

Go Tell It on the Mountain I:197

House of Mirth III:1129

Iceman Cometh III:845

Jude the Obscure II:511–512

Julius Caesar III:935–936

Macbeth III:942–943

The Pearl III:1018

Portrait of a Lady II:615–616

Remains of the Day II:602–603

Remembrance of Things Past

III:893–894

Percy Bysshe Shelley III:981–982

Souls of Black Folk I:379

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

III:1028

“American Adam” (Lewis) I:74

American Book Award III:827

American dream, the I:8–10

ambition I:7

American Pastoral III:904

American Tragedy, An I:370–371

commodification/commercialization

I:17

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s

Court III:1090

Death of a Salesman II:767–769

Great Gatsby II:439–440

House on Mango Street I:285–286

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

I:148–149

Iceman Cometh III:845

The Jungle III:991–992

Little Women I:138–139

Of Mice and Men III:1015–1016

Outsiders II:565–566

Raisin in the Sun II:508–509

Red Pony III:1023

On the Road II:643–644

Souls of Black Folk I:377

Tree Grows in Brooklyn III:995

Up from Slavery III:1117, 1119

U.S.A. trilogy I:357

Women of Brewster Place III:827–

828

American Pastoral (Roth) III:904–907

American Revolution III:856, 857, 859

“American Scholar, The” (Emerson)

I:393–397

American Tragedy, An (Dreiser) I:102,

369–373

Amis, Kingsley I:150–154

“Among School Children” (Yeats)

III:1187–1188, 1190

Anaya, Rudolfo I:154–157

Anderson, Sherwood I:157–160

Angelou, Maya I:160–163

Angels in America (Kushner) I:52, 57, 68;

II:688–691

Anglican Church II:734

angry young man movement I:151, 152

Animal Farm (Orwell) III:850–853

Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) I:30

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

(Frank) I:77, 118; II:455–458

Annie John (Kincaid) I:27; II:649–652

Anthem (Rand) III:894–897

Anthills of the Savannah (Achebe)

I:123–126

Antigone (Sophocles) I:48, 79;

III:1001–1004

Antigua II:653–656

antihero I:386; II:647, 649

anti-Semitism II:500

anxiety I:330, 387

Anxiety of Influence, The (Bloom) I:116

“A&P” (Updike) I:48–49; III:1092–

1096

apartheid I:77–78, 87–88; II:496

apocalyptic novels III:984–987

“April 2006” (Bradbury) I:224

“Araby” ( Joyce) II:628, 629

Archangel Michael II:771

archetype III:1025, 1028

Arendt, Hannah I:87, 117

Aristophanes I:99, 167–175