Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

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short stories
“A&P” III:1092–1096
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” II:753–756
“Cathedral” I:261–265
Dubliners II:628–632
“Fall of the House of Usher”
III:873–876
“Good Man Is Hard to Find”
III:837–840
“Goophered Grapevine” I:278–281
“Lottery” II:605–608
Martian Chronicles I:222–225
Middleman and Other Stories
II:809–813
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”
III:876–880
“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An”
I:209–212
“Open Boat” I:304–308
“Rose for Emily, A” II:429–431
“Tell-Tale Heart” III:880–883
Winesburg, Ohio I:157–160
Woman Hollering Creek and Other
Stories I:288
Yellow Wallpaper II:484–487
short-story cycles I:157–160
Siddhartha (Hesse) II:558–561
Silas Marner (Eliot) I:60, 108
Silent Spring (Carson) I:75, 114
Silko, Leslie Marmon I:107; III:984–991
simony II:631–632
Simos, Bertha I:44
sin II:764–767, 772, 774, 784
Sinclair, Upton I:121; III:991–994
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
(Edwards) I:46, 380–384
Sister Carrie (Dreiser) I:373–376
“Sisters, The” ( Joyce) II:628, 631–632
Six Characters in Search of an Author
(Pirandello) III:867–869
Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, The (Irving)
I:72, 75; II:598–601
Sketch of the Past, A (Woolf ) III:1176
Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut)
III:1110–1113
slavery
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
III:1083–1084
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
II:466–469
Beloved II:792–796
“Civil Disobedience” III:1057, 1058,
1060
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court III:1092
freedom I:36–37
“Goophered Grapevine” I:278–281


Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
II:608–611
Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano I:404–407
Invisible Man I:392, 393
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass I:361–365
Notes on the State of Virginia
II:622–625
oppression I:77, 78
Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave I:202
race I:85
Small Place II:654–656
social class I:101
Souls of Black Folk I:376–379
Sula II:803–805
survival I:114
Uncle Tom’s Cabin III:1035–1039
Up from Slavery III:1116–1119
“Sleep and Poetry” (Keats) II:641
Small Place, A (Kincaid) I:52; II:653–
656
Smith, Anthony D. I:71
Smith, Betty III:994–997
sobornost I:359
social class I:100–103
Adventures of Augie March I:208–209
Age of Innocence III:1125–1126
American Tragedy, An I:371
Anthills of the Savannah I:125–126
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
II:467, 468
Burger’s Daughter II:495, 497
coming of age I:14
Daisy Miller II:613–614
David Copperf ield I:336
Dream of the Red Chamber I:253–254
Emma I:188–189
Fine Balance II:775
God of Small Things III:914
Great Expectations I:340–341
Great Gatsby II:439, 441–442
Henry V III:933, 934
Hound of the Baskervilles I:368
individual and society I:58
Joy Luck Club III:1050
To Kill a Mockingbird II:701–703
Lucky Jim I:152–153
Main Street II:714–715
Merchant of Venice III:945, 947–948
Midsummer Night’s Dream
III:952–953
Modest Proposal III:1044–1045
Mrs Dalloway III:1172–1173
My Ántonia I:267–268
Passage to India II:450
Pygmalion III:974, 976–977

Rabbit, Run III:1096–1097
Remembrance of Things Past
III:893–894
“Rose for Emily, A” II:430–431
Sister Carrie I:375–376
suffering I:111
Tess of the d ’Urbervilles II:516–517
Tree Grows in Brooklyn III:996–997
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
III:1167, 1170
Wide Sargasso Sea III:901
Social Class in America (Warner) I:101
socialism I:121; III:850, 991, 992, 994
social reform III:1077, 1079
social standards I:14; III:1005, 1050
societal rules II:493, 611–614
Solomos, John I:84
Solzhenitsyn, Alexsandr III:997–1001
“Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe, A”
(Kingston) II:667, 670
“Song for Occupations, A” (Whitman)
III:1136
“Song of Joys, A” (Whitman) III:1135
“Song of Myself ” (Whitman) I:113–114;
III:1134–1136
Song of Solomon (Morrison) I:44;
II:799–803
“Song of the Broad-Axe” (Whitman)
III:1135–1136
“Song of the Exposition” (Whitman)
III:1135, 1136
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Blake)
I:60–61, 216–219
Sontag, Susan I:55–57
“Sophistication” (Sherwood) I:158
Sophocles III:1001–1008
abandonment I:1–2
Antigone III:1001–1004
community I:20
fate I:33
heroism I:48
love I:67
Oedipus Rex III:1004–1008
parenthood I:79
pride I:82
religion I:91
sex and sexuality I:99
Sorel, George I:117
Souls of Black Folk, The (DuBois) I:376–
380; II:794
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner) I:54–
55; II:431–435
South Africa II:494–497, 501–504;
III:864–867
Soviet Union III:850, 998–1001
Soweto Uprising II:497
“Speaking of Courage” (O’Brien) III:835
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