344
Numbers in bold refer to main entries.38th parallel 330
2666 (Bolaño) 339A
Abe, Ko ̄bo ̄, The Woman in the Dunes
263
Abu al-Alahijah 44
Abu Nuwas 44
Achebe, Chinua 269
Things Fall Apart 248, 266–69
Acker, Kathy 313
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 339
Half of a Yellow Sun 266, 339
Purple Hibiscus 269, 339
The Adventures of Caleb Williams
(Godwin) 166
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Twain) 145, 157, 188–89, 270
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Collodi)
168
Aeneid (Virgil) 19, 40– 41, 62
Aeschylus 18, 37, 54
Oresteia 54–55
aestheticism 157, 194
The Aesthetics of Resistance (Weiss)
333
“The Afternoon of a Faun” (Mallarmé)
165
Against Nature (Huysmans) 194
“The Agony” (Herbert) 91
Ah Cheng, Romances of the
Landscape 310
Al-Mu’allaqat 44
Alas, Leopolda, La Regenta 201
The Alchemist (Jonson) 75
Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women
169, 199
Alencar, José de, The Guarani 164
Alfonso X 57
Cantigas de Santa María 57
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
(Carroll) 156, 168–71
allegorical satire 295, 320–21
Allende, Isabel, The House of The
Spirits 302, 334
Almayer’s Folly (Conrad) 197
Amadis of Gaul (Montalvo) 102–03
American black humor 276
American Psycho (Ellis) 261, 270, 313
American voices 188–89
Amis, Kingsley, Lucky Jim 318
Amis, Martin 331
Andersen, Hans Christian, Fairy
Tales 45, 151 , 169
Angelou, Maya 307
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
259, 291Anglo-Saxon literature 19, 42–43,
48, 219
Animal Farm (Orwell) 245 , 248, 252,
253, 320
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) 149, 178,
200
Annals (Ennius) 40
Annie Allen (Brooks) 259
antinovel 249, 274 –75
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
87, 89
Apuleius, The Golden Ass 40, 56
Ariel (Plath) 276
Ariosto, Ludovico, Orlando Furioso
63
Aristophanes 90
The Clouds 36
Wasps 55
Wealth 39
Aristotle, Poetics 39 , 90
The Armies of the Night (Mailer) 291
Ars Amatoria (Art of Love) (Ovid) 57
Arthurian chivalric romance 19,
50–51
As You Like It (Shakespeare) 85, 88, 89
Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen,
Norwegian Folktales 116
Asturias, Miguel Angel
Men of Maize 282
Mr. President 282
At Swim-Two-Birds (O’Brien) 274
Atwood, Margaret 14, 327
The Blind Assassin 271, 295,
326–27
The Edible Woman 327
The Handmaid’s Tale 252, 327, 335
Auden, W. H. 117
Collected Poetry 277
Auschwitz, literature after 258
Austen, Jane 14, 90, 119 , 131, 317
Pride and Prejudice 12, 108,
118 –19
Auster, Paul 336
The New York Trilogy 298, 336
Austerlitz (Sebald) 338
Australian writing 311
The Awakening (Chopin) 203B
Ba Jin, The Family 222
Bâ, Mariama, So Long a Letter 334
Baif, Jean Antoine de, Mimes,
Lessons, and Proverbs 74
Baihua literature 222
Baldwin, James, Go Tell It on the
Mountain 259, 306
Ballard, J. G. 332
Crash 313, 332
Empire of the Sun 332“The Ballad of the Brown Girl”
(Cullen) 235
Balzac, Honoré de 151
The Black Sheep 152
The Chouans 122, 151
La Comédie humaine 156, 160
Old Goriot 151
banned books 243, 260–61, 322
Bao Town (Wang) 310
Barcas trilogy (Vicente) 103
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth 131
Barrie, J. M., Peter Pan 169
Bartleby & Co. (Villa-Matas) 274
Bartleby, the Scrivener (Melville) 140
Bashar ibn Burd 44
Basho ̄, Matsuo, The Narrow Road to
the Interior 61, 92
Baudelaire, Charles 157
Les Fleurs du mal 165
beat generation 243, 248, 249,
264–65, 288
The Beautiful and Damned
(Fitzgerald) 230
Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot
210, 248, 262
Bel Ami (Maupassant) 160
The Bell Jar (Plath) 185, 256, 290
Beloved (Morrison) 145, 294, 306–09
Ben Jelloun, Tahar, The Sand Child 223
Beowulf 14, 19, 42–43
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Döblin) 207,
234
“Bernice Bobs Her Hair” (Fitzgerald)
230
Bhagavad Gita (Vyasa) 24, 25
The Big Sleep (Chandler) 207,
236–37
Bildungsroman 128, 206–07, 224–27
The Black Sheep (Balzac) 152
Blake, William 105
Songs of Innocence and
Experience 105 , 110
Bleak House (Dickens) 109, 134,
146–49, 166, 195, 208
Bleeding Edge (Pynchon) 296, 331
The Blind Assassin (Atwood) 271,
295, 326–27
Blindness (Saramago) 295, 320–21
The Bloody Chamber (Carter) 116,
333
The Bluest Eye (Morrison) 307, 309
Boccaccio, Giovanni 14, 71
The Decameron 60, 68, 72, 102
Bolaño, Roberto, 2666 339
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Wolfe)
149
Book of Changes 18, 21
The Book of Disquiet (Pessoa) 216,
244
Book of Odes (Shijing) 46
The Book of Songs (Heine) 111Borges, Jorge Luis 245
A Universal History of Infamy 302
Ficciones 245 , 282, 298, 299
“Pierre Menard, Author of the
Quixote” 81
Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451 252, 287
Brave New World (Huxley) 243 , 252,
261
Brecht, Bertolt, Mother Courage and
Her Children 238, 244–45
Bright Lights, Big City (McInerney) 313
Brink, André, A Dry White Season
333–34
Broch, Hermann, The Sleepwalkers
234
The Broken Commandment
(Shimazaki) 209
Brontë, Charlotte 129
Jane Eyre 109, 118, 128–31, 137
Villette 128
Brontë, Emily 131, 134
Wuthering Heights 69, 109, 128,
132, 134–37, 192, 271
Bronze Age 20
Brooke, Rupert, “The Dead” 212
Brooks, Gwendolyn, Annie Allen 259
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
149, 178, 200–01, 210
Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code 261
Buddenbrooks (Mann) 194, 227
Bukowski, Charles 313
Ham on Rye 256
Bulawayo, NoViolet, We Need New
Names 339
Bulgakov, Mikhail, The Master and
Margarita 290–91
Bunyan, John, The Pilgrim’s Progress
330
Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork
Orange 252, 270, 289
Burroughs, William S 265, 313
Naked Lunch 260, 264
Buson, Yosa 92
The Butcher Boy (McCabe) 313
Butler, Octavia E., Kindred 126
Byatt, A. S., Possession: A Romance
318
Byron, Lord 120, 124, 185
Don Juan 110C
Cain, James M.
Double Indemnity 236
The Postman Always Rings Twice
236
The Cairo Trilogy (Mahfouz) 223
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, Life is a
Dream 78
Call to Arms (Lu) 207, 222INDEX
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