1224 Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Welty, Eudora I:44; III:1119–1122
West, Cornel I:51
Westerns II:749–753
Wharton, Edith III:1122–1133
Age of Innocence III:1122–1126
Ethan Frome III:1126–1129
guilt I:46
House of Mirth III:1129–1133
“What is Enlightenment?” (Kant)
III:862
“What the Thunder Said” (Eliot)
I:387–390
“What Violence Is” (Garver) I:118
“When I Have Fears that I May Cease To
Be” (Keats) II:641
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
(Whitman) III:1135
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloom’d” (Whitman) III:1134
“When You Are Old” (Yeats) III:1187,
1188
Whigs II:437
Whitbread Book Awards II:683; III:1163
White, Barbara I:13
White Fang (London) II:718–721
“White Man’s Burden, The” (Kipling)
I:84–85
White Noise (Delillo) I:18, 56, 97,
328–331
white supremacy II:737–738
“White Tigers” (Kingston) II:667, 668
Whitman, Walt I:75, 113–114;
III:1133–1136
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee)
I:133–137
Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys) III:901–904
Wiesel, Elie I:77, 111; III:1136–1140
“Wife of Bath’s Prologue, The” (Chaucer)
I:272, 274, 275
Wilbur, Richard II:781
Wilde, Oscar I:68; III:1140–1147
Wilder, Thornton I:32; III:1147–1151
“Wilderness, The” (Bradbury) I:224
“Wild Geese” (Erdrich) I:413
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Goethe)
I:26–27
Williams, Kipling D. I:63
Williams, Ted II:731
Williams, Tennessee I:31; III:1151–1160
Wilson, August III:1160–1163
“Window, The” (Woolf ) III:1174
Winesburg, Ohio (Anderson) I:157–160
Winters, Shelley I:369
Winterson, Jeanette III:1163–1167
Winthrop, John I:74
Wise Blood (O’Connor) III:840–843
witchcraft II:763–767
Within a Budding Grove (Proust) III:891
Wollstonecraft, Mary I:26, 78; II:478;
III:1167–1170
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
(Cisneros) I:288–291
Woman Warrior, The (Kingston)
II:667–670
Women and Economics (Gilman) II:484
Women and Social Class (Abbot and
Sapsford) I:101
Women in Love (Lawrence) I:99;
II:695–698
Women of Brewster Place, The (Naylor)
III:827–830
Woolf, Virginia III:1170–1177
ethics I:29–30
grief I:44
To the Lighthouse III:1174–1177
Mrs Dalloway III:1170–1173
regret I:88
Wordsworth, Dorothy III:1177–1180
Wordsworth, William I:11, 54, 70;
III:1177–1180
work I:120–122
Animal Farm III:852–853
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
II:461–462
Autobiography of Malcolm X
II:507–508
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
II:469–470
“Billy Budd, Sailor” II:758–759
“Birches” II:465
“Birth-mark” II:526–527
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof III:1152
commodification/commercialization
I:16
Ethan Frome III:1128
Robert Frost II:464–465
“Goophered Grapevine” I:279
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter II:744–745
Heart of Darkness I:301
innocence and experience I:61
The Jungle III:993–994
Leaves of Grass III:1135–1136
Lucky Jim I:153–154
Night III:1137
Oliver Twist I:341, 343–344
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
III:1000–1001
Our Town III:1147, 1149
“Pasture, The” II:464
“Putting in the Seed” II:464Seagull I:277–278
“Self-Reliance” I:403–404
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening” II:465
“Tuft of Flowers, The” II:464–465
Up from Slavery III:1118–1119
Walden III:1061–1063
World According to Garp, The (Irving)
II:594–598
“World’s Greatest Fishermen, The”
(Erdrich) I:413
World War I I:388–390; III:1171–1173
World War II
American Pastoral III:904
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
II:455–458
Bless Me, Ultima I:154–157
Brown Girl, Brownstones II:735
The Chosen III:890
Glass Menagerie III:1155
Heart of the Matter II:501
Member of the Wedding II:745, 748
Painted Bird II:676–680
On the Road II:643–644
Separate Peace II:673–676
Slaughterhouse-Five III:1110–1113
Tin Drum II:498, 501
violence I:118
“Wound-Dresser, The” (Whitman)
III:1134
Wright, Richard III:1180–1187
Black Boy III:1180–1183
family I:32
Native Son III:1183–1187
oppression I:77
race I:85
rejection I:90
suffering I:111
Wuthering Heights (Brontë) I:23, 232–235
X
xenophobia II:810–811
Y
Yeats, William Butler I:72–73;
III:1187–1190
Yellow Wallpaper, The (Gilman) I:64;
II:484–487
Yi Fu Tuan I:2
“Ylla” (Bradbury) I:223
“Young Goodman Brown” (Hawthorne)
II:538–541
Z
Zadig (Voltaire) III:876