Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

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Waiting for the Barbarians I:291–292
Women in Love II:697
Wuthering Heights I:234
Cry, the Beloved Country (Paton)
III:864–867
culture
Awakening I:281–282
Ceremony III:988–989
House Made of Dawn II:786, 787
Kim II:672
Mumbo Jumbo III:897–900
The Tempest III:968–969
Tripmaster Monkey II:665
Woman Warrior II:667–670
culture industry I:16–17
Curse of Agade, The I:89


D
Daisy Miller ( James) II:611–614
Dangaremba, Tsi Tsi I:27
Dante Alighieri I:24, 36, 92, 311–314
Dark Ages I:91–92
dark humor III:1046–1049
Darwin, Charles I:38, 104; III:1055
David Copperf ield (Dickens) I:334–337
Davies, Robertson I:45, 314–318
Davis, Rebecca Harding I:318–321
“Dead, The” ( Joyce) II:628, 631
death I:23–25
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
III:1082–1083
Almanac of the Dead III:985
Animal Farm III:851
Annie John II:650, 652
Antigone III:1002, 1003
Awakening I:284
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” II:754
Bean Trees II:659
Beloved II:795
Black Boy III:1181
Burger’s Daughter II:495
“Butterfly in honored Dust, The”
I:349
Canterbury Tales I:273
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof III:1151
Christmas Carol I:332
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court III:1089
Cry, the Beloved Country III:864, 865
Death of a Salesman II:768–769
“Departed-to the Judgment” I:349
Emily Dickinson I:348–349
Dream of the Red Chamber I:252
“Fall of the House of Usher”
III:873–874
Fathers and Sons III:1079, 1082
Going after Cacciato III:832, 833


“Good Man Is Hard to Find”
III:837–839
Grapes of Wrath III:1014
grief I:43
Hamlet III:922–924
House of the Spirits I:145–146
Iceman Cometh III:846
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” I:349
The Iliad II:568–569
illness I:56
innocence and experience I:61
Jane Eyre I:229–230
John Keats II:640–641
Leaves of Grass III:1133–1134
To the Lighthouse III:1174–1175
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above
Tintern Abbey” III:1178
Little Women I:139–141
Long Day’s Journey into Night III:848
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
I:385–386
Macbeth III:944
Member of the Wedding II:747
In Memoriam A. H. H. III:1052–1056
The Metamorphosis II:636–640
Mrs Dalloway III:1171
“My Last Duchess” I:236–237
Night III:1137
Nineteen Eighty-Four III:854
“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An”
I:209–212
One Hundred Years of Solitude II:476
“Open Boat” I:305
O Pioneers! I:269
Optimist’s Daughter III:1120
Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave I:204
Othello III:956
Our Town III:1151
Paradise Lost II:772
The Pearl III:1020
Pilgrim’s Progress I:239
Playboy of the Western World
III:1047–1049
“Rappaccini’s Daughter” II:531–532
Red Pony III:1023
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
I:295–296
Romeo and Juliet III:960–962
“Rose for Emily” II:429–430
“Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”
I:349
Slaughterhouse-Five III:1110
The Stranger I:247–249
Tale of Two Cities I:347
“Tell-Tale Heart” III:882
Things Fall Apart I:128–130
Things They Carried III:834–836

Tin Drum II:498
Treasure Island III:1029
Twelfth Night III:973
Way to Rainy Mountain II:790, 792
White Noise I:329–330
Winesburg, Ohio I:159
Wise Blood III:840, 841
Woman Hollering Creek and Other
Stories I:290
Wuthering Heights I:232–233
William Butler Yeats III:1188
“Death by Water” (Eliot) I:387–389
Death of a Salesman (Miller) II:767–770
ambition I:7
American dream, the I:9
commodification/commercialization
I:17
success I:109
work I:122
debt II:637–638
Decameron, The (Boccaccio) I:24
Decasibus (Boccaccio) I:82
deception
Animal Farm III:852
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” II:755
Dutchman II:626
Tartuffe II:782–783
Decker, Jeffrey I:108–109
Declaration of Independence I:8, 36
“Defence of Poetry, A” (Shelley) III:982
Defoe, Daniel I:59, 80, 321–328
deism III:856–857
Delillo, Don I:18, 56, 97, 328–331
“Departure” (Sherwood) I:158
depression II:785; III:869–870
Derrida, Jacques I:39
Desire (Clark) I:98
despair
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
II:457
Candide III:1104
Lord of the Rings III:1069, 1070
Native Son III:1186
detective stories I:365–369
Deuteronomy (biblical book) I:381, 382
diaries
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
II:455–458
Golden Notebook II:704, 706, 707
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
II:635
Robinson Crusoe I:327
Dickens, Charles I:331–348
childhood I:11
Christmas Carol I:331–334
community I:20
David Copperf ield I:334–337
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