1204 Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Love Medicine I:412
Lysistrata I:171, 173, 174
Martian Chronicles I:224
In Memoriam A. H. H. III:1055, 1056
Modest Proposal III:1045
“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An”
I:210–211
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
III:999
“Open Boat” I:305
The Pearl III:1019
Seagull I:275–276
“Self-Reliance” I:400
Song of Solomon II:799
Tale of Two Cities I:346
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I:135
Wise Blood III:841, 843
“Hop-Frog” (Poe) III:876
horror III:977–981, 1032, 1033
horses II:789–790, 792
Hosseini, Khaled I:102
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (Doyle)
I:365–369
House for Mr. Biswas, A (Naipaul)
III:823–827
House Made of Dawn (Momaday)
II:785–789
House of Mirth, The (Wharton)
III:1129–1133
House of the Seven Gables, The
(Hawthorne) I:80; II:527–531
House of the Spirits, The (Allende)
I:144–148
House on Mango Street, The (Cisneros)
I:284–288
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki II:575–578
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
(Alvarez) I:148–150
Hughes, Langston I:9, 78; II:578–582
human condition I:222, 223; III:922
human nature II:491, 492, 494; III:883
Hume, David I:58
humor III:837, 839, 1065
Hurston, Zora Neale I:77; II:582–584
“Hush’d Be the Camps To-day”
(Whitman) III:1134
Huxley, Aldous I:81, 97; II:584–588
Hwang, David Henry I:41, 42
hypocrisy II:652, 690, 691, 784
I
“I, Too” (Hughes) I:78
iambic pentameter II:781
Ibsen, Henrik II:588–594
Icarus II:732
Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill) III:843–846
id I:47
identity I:53–55
Adventures of Augie March I:207–208
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland I:258,
260
American Pastoral III:904–905
Annie John II:651–652
“A&P” III:1095
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
II:469, 470
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” II:754–755
Bell Jar III:870, 871
Bingo Palace I:410–411
Black Elk Speaks I:213
Bless Me, Ultima I:154–157
Call of the Wild II:716–717
Cane III:1076
Cat’s Cradle III:1107
The Chosen III:888
coming of age I:13, 14
Crime and Punishment I:359
Emily Dickinson I:350
Doll ’s House II:589–590
Dracula III:1033, 1034
Dutchman II:625–626
“Fall of the House of Usher”
III:873–875
Fine Balance II:776–777
Frogs I:169–171
Golden Notebook II:706–707
Go Tell It on the Mountain I:197
Great Gatsby II:440–441
grief I:43
Handmaid ’s Tale I:176
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter II:744
Heart of Darkness I:300
House for Mr. Biswas III:826
House Made of Dawn II:786–787
House on Mango Street I:286–287
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I:161–162
Importance of Being Earnest III:1141
Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano I:405–407
Invisible Man I:390–393
Kim II:670, 671
King Lear III:938–939
Lesson before Dying II:470, 473
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistf ight in
Heaven I:144
Lord Jim I:302, 303
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock I:386–387
Midnight’s Children III:915–916
Much Ado about Nothing III:954
My Ántonia I:266
Narrative of the Captivity and
Restoration of Mrs. Mary
Rowlandson III:909–910Night III:1136–1138
Odyssey II:574–575
Oliver Twist I:343
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
III:998
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
II:647–648
Optimist’s Daughter III:1121
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
III:1163
Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave I:203
Othello III:959
Painted Bird II:677–678
Picture of Dorian Gray III:1144–1145
Of Plymouth Plantation I:226–228
Remembrance of Things Past III:892
“Self-Reliance” I:401
Separate Peace II:674
sex and sexuality I:100
Six Characters in Search of an Author
III:868
Song of Solomon II:800
Souls of Black Folk I:378–379
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
III:1025–1026
Tin Drum II:499–500
Tracks I:415
Treasure Island III:1031–1032
Tripmaster Monkey II:664–665
Unbearable Lightness of Being
II:680–681
Way to Rainy Mountain II:789–790
White Fang II:718–719
Wide Sargasso Sea III:901
ideology I:22
“I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”
(Dickinson) I:349
ignorance II:653, 654
“I Hear America Singing” (Whitman)
III:1135
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya
Angelou) I:160–163
Iliad, The (Homer) II:568–571
Aeneid III:1101
death I:23
grief I:44
heroism I:48
memory I:69
pride I:82
tradition I:115
illegal immigrants II:656–659, 810
illness I:55–58
Angels in America II:690–691
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
II:458
Bell Jar III:872–873
Black Boy III:1180