Index 873Everything That Rises Must
Converge (O’Connor),
591
evil
Emerson on, 117
Hawthorne on, 182
Le Guin on, 738
Macdonald on, 730
Native Americans on, 6–7
O’Connor on, 591–592
pro-slavers on, 153
The Executioner’s Song
(Mailer), 571
existentialism
and Albee, 690
and Ashbery, 621
and Mosley, 734
and Percy, 586
and Wright, 502
Exley, Frederick, 703
Expansive poets (New
Formalists), 623–631
Expensive People (Oates), 593
“Experience in the West”
(Bishop), 443
experiments, literary
African-American protest
writing, 641–651
Arias, 756
Ashbery, 621
Barrio, 751
beat poets, 610–615
Black Mountain poets, 600,
602, 603
Cha, 775
Crane, 276
Cruz, 758
Doctorow, 576
Ellison, 651–652
James, 261
Kennedy, 664
Melville, 185
Oates, 593–594
O’Hara, 618
Patchen, 452
postwar drama, 689–694
postwar novels, 631–640
San Francisco Renaissance,
606–610Stein, 398–399
Toomer, 484–486
Viramontes, 757
Whitman, 211
see also Modernism;
postmodernism
exploration
border surveys, 52
English, 25–27
Spanish and French, 14–21
see also travel writings
expressionism, 423–424, 427
and Kennedy, 664
and postwar drama,
680–681, 691
and Shepard, 691
The Exterminator (Burroughs
and Gysin), 634, 635
Extremely Loud and Incredibly
Close (Foer), 797–798
“The Eye” (Jeffers), 358A Fable (Faulkner), 417
A Fable for Critics (Lowell),
206
Face of an Angel (Chávez),
756
factories: literary treatments,
158–159, 195–196, 201
facts
as basis for novels, 81, 82,
84, 87
importance to Puritans,
28, 30
spiritual significance for
Emerson, 116
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury),
737–738
faith
Albee on, 691
Melville on, 187–188, 189,
190
Naylor on, 675
A Faithful Narrative of the
Surprising Work of God
(Edwards), 58
“The Fall of the House of
Usher” (Poe), 105,
108–109Falling Man (DeLillo), 586,
795, 796–797, 798, 804
family life: literary treatments
Albee, 690
Baldwin, 654–655
Cofer, 759–760
Faulkner, 417–420
Jen, 766–767
Kincaid, 678
O’Neill, 429
Proulx, 598–599
Robinson, Marilynne, 598
Shepard, 692
Smiley, 597–598
Tan, 765–766
Thompson, 728
Tyler, 594–595
Viramontes, 757
Walker, 673
Welty, 589–590
Williams, 684–685
The Family Muskat (Singer),
740
A Fan’s Notes (Exley), 703
Fanshawe (Hawthorne), 178
“The Farewell of a Virginia
Slave Mother”
(Whittier), 148
A Farewell to Arms
(Hemingway), 412, 413
“The Farmer’s Wife”
(Sexton), 539
farming
Jefferson on, 67
Lanier on, 240
Markham on, 271
see also pastoral themes
and pastoralism; rural
communities
Farnell, James T., 457
Farrago, Captain John
(Modern Chivalry),
84–85
The Farthest Shore (Le Guin),
738
fascism
early 20th-century artistic
attitude to, 342
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