How to Read Literature Like a Professor (30 page)

Aaron’s Rod
(Lawrence)

Absalom, Absalom!
(Faulkner)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Twain)

The Aeneid
(Virgil)

Aeschylus

African American writing

“After Apple Picking” (Frost)

aha! factor

AIDS

Alexandria Quartet
(Durrell)

Alice in Wonderland
(Carroll)

allegory

Allen, Woody

Animal Farm
(Orwell)

Anna Karenina
(Tolstoy)

Apollonius Rhodius

“Araby” (Joyce)

archetypes

The Argonautica
(Apollonius Rhodius)

Aristophanes

“The Arrow of Heaven” (Chesterton)

“Ash-Wednesday” (Eliot)

Auden, W. H.

Austen, Jane

Bakhtin, Mikhail

Baldwin, James

Balthazar
(Durrell)

baptism/rebirth

“Barn Burning” (Faulkner)

Barnes, Djuna

Barth, John

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

Beach Boys

Bean Trees
(Kingsolver)

Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles
(Vizenor)

Beattie, Ann

“Beauty and the Beast” (fairy tale)

Beckett, Samuel

Bellow, Saul

Beloved
(Morrison)

Benét, Stephen Vincent

Beowulf
(medieval work)

Bergman, Ingrid

Berryman, John

Bible

authority of

borrowing from

and fairy/folk tales

and intent

and mythology

and one story

and physical deformities

and seasons

and U.S. as Christian culture

and violence

and weather

See also
Christ figures; Christian tradition

The Big Sleep
(Chandler)

“Big Two-Hearted River” (Hemingway)

Billy Budd
(Melville)

“Birches” (Frost)

Bishop, Elizabeth

Bizet, Georges

Bleak House
(Dickens)

blindness

Blindness
(Green)

The Bloody Chamber
(Carter)

Bloom, Harold

Bloom, Leopold

“Bluebeard” (fairy tale)

Bogart, Humphrey

“Bogland” (Heaney)

Boland, Eavan

Bowles, Paul

Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Bradbury, Ray

Bradstreet, Anne

Brave New World
(Huxley)

Breakfast of Champions
(Vonnegut)

The Bridge
(Crane)

A Brief History of Time
(Hawking)

Bronte sisters

Brookner, Anita

Brown, Margaret Wise

Brueghel, Pieter

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

Bunyan, John

Burgess, Anthony

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(film)

By the Pricking of My Thumbs
(Christie)

“California Dreamin’” (song)

Camus, Albert

Canaan
(Hill)

cannibalism

See also
vampires

canon, literary

“Can’t Find My Way Home” (song)

The Canterbury Tales
(Chaucer)

Cantos
(Pound)

Carmen
(opera)

Carroll, Lewis

Carter, Angela

Carver, Raymond

The Cat in the Hat (Seuss)

“Cathedral” (Carver)

Chandler, Raymond

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chekhov, Anton

Chesterton, G. K.

A Child’s Garden of Verses
(Stevenson)

Chopin, Frédéric

Christ figure

Christian tradition

Christie, Agatha

A Christmas Carol
(Dickens)

“Cinderella” (fairy tale)

The Cisco Kid
(film)

Clea
(Durrell)

Cleese, John

Clemens, Sam.
See
Twain, Mark

A Clockwork Orange
(Burgess)

Coen, Joel and Ethan

communion, acts of

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
(Twain)

Conrad, Joseph

Cooper, James Fenimore

Coover, Robert

Crane, Hart

Crying of Lot 49
(Pynchon)

Cunningham, Michael

Cymbeline
(Shakespeare)

“Daisy Miller” (James)

Damned Yankees
(musical)

Dante Alighieri

“The Dead” (Joyce)

Dean, James

Death in Venice
(Mann)

Death Valley Days
(TV show)

deconstruction

The Devil and Daniel Webster
(Benét)

Dexter, Colin

Dickens, Charles

borrowing from

and disease

and flights of fancy

ghosts of

and politics

and sex

and violence

and weather

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
(Tyler)

disease

Disney, Walt

Divine Comedy
(Dante)

A Doll’s House
(Ibsen)

Dombey and Son
(Dickens)

Donne, John

Dr. Faustus
(Marlowe)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Stevenson)

Dracula
(film)

Dracula
(Stoker)

Dryden, John

Dubliners
(Joyce)

Durrell, Lawrence

East of Eden
(film)

East of Eden
(Steinbeck)

Eastwood, Clint

Easy Rider
(film)

eating

as communion

by vampires

“An Echo from Willow-Wood” (Rossetti)

Eliot, T. S.

and Bible

and borrowing from Shakespeare

and creating stories

and fairy/folk tales

and intent

and one story

and originality

and physical deformities

and seasons

and symbolism

and weather

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Erdrich, Louise

E. T
. (film)

The Faerie Queen
(Spenser)

fairy/folk tales

“The Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe)

The Far Field
(Roethke)

“A Farewell” (Peele)

A Farewell to Arms
(Hemingway)

Faulkner, William

Faust
(Goethe)

“Fern Hill” (Thomas)

Fielding, Henry

Finnegans Wake
(Joyce)

“The Fish” (Bishop)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Flaubert, Gustave

flights of fancy

Ford, Ford Madox

Forster, E. M.

Fort Apache
(film)

Four Quartets
(Eliot)

Fowles, John

“The Fox” (Lawrence)

Frampton, Peter

Frankenstein
(Shelley)

Frazer, James

The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(Fowles)

Freud, Sigmund

From Ritual to Romance
(Weston)

Frost, Robert

Frye, Northrop

Fuentes, Carlos

Fugard, Athol

“The Garden Party” (Mansfield)

Gardner, John

Gass, William H.

geography

Ghostbusters
(film)

ghosts

Ghosts
(Ibsen)

Gilligan’s Island
(TV program)

“The Gingerbread House” (Coover)

Ginsberg, Allen

Go Down, Moses
(Faulkner)

Go Tell It on the Mountain
(Baldwin)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Gogol, Nikolai

Going After Cacciato
(O’Brien)

Gone with the Wind
(Mitchell)

The Good Soldier
(film)

Goodnight Moon
(Margaret Wise Brown)

Grahame, Kenneth

Gravity’s Rainbow
(Pynchon)

The Great Gatsby
(Fitzgerald)

great works/writers

Green, Henry

Grendel
(Gardner)

Greville, Fulke

Grimm Brothers

Guest, Judith

Hamilton, Jane

Hamlet
(Shakespeare)

“Hansel and Gretel” (fairy tale)

Hardy, Thomas

Harry Potter
(Rowling)

Hawking, Stephen

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

“A Hazy Shade of Winter” (song)

Heaney, Seamus

heart/heart disease

Heart of Darkness
(Conrad)

The Hearts and Lives of Men
(Weldon)

Hemingway, Ernest

and Bible

borrowing from

and Christ figures

and geography

and intent

and irony

and one story

and physical deformities

and sex

and violence

and weather

Henry IV, Part II
(Shakespeare)

Henry V
(Shakespeare)

Henry VI, Part II
(Shakespeare)

Heraclitus

High Noon
(film)

Hill, Geoffrey

Hitchcock, Alfred

Homer

borrowing from

and fairy/folk tales

and heart

and intent

and mythology

and one story

and perspective/viewpoint

and physical deformities

and symbolism

and violence

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” (Lawrence)

Hotel du Lac
(Brookner)

The Hours
(Cunningham)

Howards End
(Forster)

Hugo, Victor

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(Hugo)

“A Hunger Artist” (Kafka)

Huxley, Aldous

Ibsen, Henrik

The Iliad
(Homer)

illness

Illness as Metaphor
(Sontag)

The Importance of Being Earnest
(Wilde)

“In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (Auden)

“In Praise of Limestone” (Auden)

“In Praise of Prairie” (Roethke)

Indiana Jones. See
Raiders of the Lost Ark
(film)

“Innocent Eréndira” (Márquez)

“intentionalism”

intertextuality

Iowa Writers’ Workshop

irony

Irving, Washington

“Jack and the Beanstalk” (fairy tale)

Jackson, Samuel L.

James, Henry

“Janus” (Beattie)

Jeffers, Robinson

Johnson, Robert

“Journey of the Magi” (Eliot)

Joyce, James

and baptism/rebirth

and Bible

and blindness

and borrowing

and disease

and eating as communion

and fairy/folk tales

and flights of fancy

and intent

and irony

and mythology

and originality

and perspective/viewpoint

and sex

and viewpoint

and violence

and weather

Jung, Carl

Justine
(Durrell)

Kafka, Franz

Kangaroo
(Lawrence)

Kasden, Lawrence

Kashpaw/Nanapush novels (Erdrich)

Keats, John

Kerouac, Jack

King, Stephen

Kingsolver, Barbara

King Lear
(Shakespeare)

Kiss Me, Kate
(musical)

La Bohème
(opera)

Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(Lawrence)

Landscape with Fall of Icarus
(Brueghel)

“Landscape with Fall of Icarus” (Williams)

The Last of the Mohicans
(Cooper)

Lawrence, D. H.

and baptism/rebirth

and disease

and eating as vampirism/cannabalism

and geography

and intent

Mansfield as model for

and politics

and sex

and violence

and weather

Le Fanu, J. S.

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Irving)

Lessing, Doris

Lewis, C. S.

Light in August
(Faulkner)

“Little Red Riding Hood” (fairy tale)

Lolita
(Nabokov)

Lord, Audre

Lord Jim
(Conrad)

The Lord of the Rings
(Tolkien)

Love Medicine
(Erdrich)

“The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Eliot)

Loy, Mina

“Lycidas” (Milton)

Macbeth
(Shakespeare)

Madame Bovary
(Flaubert)

“Maggie May” (song)

The Magic Mountain
(Mann)

Malory, Thomas

The Maltese Falcon
(Chandler)

The Maltese Falcon
(film)

Malthus, Thomas

The Mamas & the Papas

“The Man of Adamant” (Hawthorne)

Mann, Thomas

Mansfield, Katherine

A Map of the World
(Hamilton)

Marlowe, Christopher

Marlowe, Philip

Márquez, Gabriel García

Marvell, Andrew

“The Masque of the Red Death” (Poe)

“
Master Harold”…and the Boys
(play)

The Master of Ballantrae
(Stevenson)

Mazursky, Paul

Melville, Herman

The Merchant of Venice
(Shakespeare)

Metamorphoses
(Ovid)

“The Metamorphosis” (Kafka)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Shakespeare)

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
(film)