Bakhtin, Mikhail, 189
Baldwin, James, 54 -55,56 ,227 -28,229 -31
Balthazar (Durrell), 147
baptism/rebirth, 152 -62
“Barn Burning” (Faulkner), 94
Barnes, Djuna, 149
Barth, John, 63 ,187
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 41
Beach Boys, 178
Bean Trees (Kingsolver), 167
Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles (Vizenor), 65
Beattie, Ann, 138 ,139 ,142
“Beauty and the Beast” (fairy tale), 200
Beckett, Samuel, 205 -6,235 -36,239 ,244
Bellow, Saul, 96
Beloved (Morrison), 32 ,48 -49,87 -88,91 ,158 -59,161 -62,195
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 199
Beowulf (medieval work), 33
Bergman, Ingrid, 137 -38
Berryman, John, 153
Bible
authority of, 42
borrowing from, 33 ,47 -56,271
and fairy/folk tales, 62 ,63
and intent, 83 ,84