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Beckett, Samuel (cont.. .)
Waiting for Godot 35–6, 66, 69,
115, 191
beginnings see openings
Bellow, Saul
Henderson the Rain King 82–3
Bentham, Jeremy 95
bias and narrative 91–9
Bible
and character 64–5
midrash and interpretation 143–4
opening lines 17–21
unintentional humour 134
see also St John’s Gospel
Bildungsroman 161, 162
Blake, William
‘The Tyger’ 191
Brecht, Bertolt 76–7, 180
The Threepenny Opera 65
Bridehead, Sue (character) 70–5
Brontë, Charlotte
Jane Eyre 5, 52–3, 84, 101, 123, 161
character of Jane Eyre 52–3
Villette 102
Brontë, Emily
Wuthering Heights 1–2, 4–6, 45–6,
84, 103
character of Heathcliff 1–2, 4, 5,
45–6
Browning, Robert 134
Burgess, Anthony
Earthly Powers 40–2
Burns, Robert 191

Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood 121
character 45–79
and context 60, 62, 63–4
urban caricatures in Charles Dickens
181–2
eccentrics 49–50
and empathy 75–9
meanings of word 48–50
rogues 51–2
role in literature 58–69
self- awareness of first person narrator
163, 197–9

and types 54–7

see also under Dickens, Charles;

Hardy, Thomas

Chaucer, Geoffrey 55, 58

Canterbury Tales 22–3, 182

children

as readers of J.K. Rowling’s Harry

Potter novels 170

as narrators 85–6

oppression in Victorian society 158

and otherness 172–3

Chomsky, Noam 179

Christie, Agatha 115

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 86

cinema

and clichés 128

uncanny children 173

civilisation

and origins in Charles Dickens’s Great

Expectations 157, 160, 167

sincerity of middle- class values

165–6

civility and convention 34–5

Clarissa (character) see under

Richardson, Clarissa

class see social class

classic qualities in literature 183–8

clichés 128

coherence and literary value 191

comedies

and literary value 190–1

see also humour

complexity

and literary value 190, 191

modernist syntax and resistance to

interpretation 124–5, 127–8

Conan Doyle, Arthur 122–3

Conrad, Joseph 103–4, 107–8

Heart of Darkness 97, 104, 109–11, 127

Under Western Eyes 84

content and form and interpretation 3,

131–3

context

and character 60, 62, 63–4

and interpretation 117–20, 126–7,

141–2, 146, 183

and literary value 183–8, 206