Browse Subjects
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- 50 Cent (Musician)
A
- Aarons, Victoria
- Abbey Theatre
- abolition of slavery
- Abramson, Edward A.
- Achebe, Chinua
- Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984
- Adams, Richard P. (Richard Perrill), 1917-197
- adolescence
- Africa
- African American identity
- African American literature
- Aizenberg, Edna
- alcoholism
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
- alienation
- Alphen, Ernst van
- Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990
- American culture
- American gothic fiction
- American history
- American literature
- American politics
- American women writers
- Americanization
- Ancient Greek myth
- Andregg, Michael
- Anglo-Irish identity
- anticolonialism
- antisemitism
- apartheid
- Apess, William, 1798-1839
- Aran Islands
- archaeology
- Archambault, Christine
- Archdeacon, Thomas J.
- archetypal approach
- Argentinian literature
- Aristotle
- Asch, Sholem, 1880-1957
- Ashkenazic Jews
- Atwell, David
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
- authorial responsibility
B
- Babb, Lawrence
- Bach, Rebecca Ann
- Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962
- Badel, Sarah
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007
- beach
- Bean, John C.
- Beat poetry
- Beauty and the Beast
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
- Begam, Richard, 1950-
- Behan, Brendan
- Bell-Villada, Gene H., 1941-
- Bellow, Saul
- Bemong, Nele
- Beowulf (character)
- Berkowitz, Joel, 1965-
- Berle, Milton
- Bethlehem, Louise
- Bettelheim, Bruno
- Bevington, David M.
- Bhabha, Homi K., 1949-
- biblical narrative
- binary opposition
- Birmingham, Stephen
- black feminism
- Bloody Sunday (Derry)
- Bloom, Harold
- Blotner, Joseph, 1923-2012
- blues music
- Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-
- Boland, Eavan
- Boltwood, Scott
- Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-200
- Boose, Lynda E., 1943-
- border crossing
- Borders (Scotland)
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
- Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil), 1851-1935
- Bradshaw, Peter
- Bressler, Charles E.
- British colonization
- British imperialism
- British monarchy
- Brode, Douglas, 1943-
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
- Brown, Christy, 1932-1981
- Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2
- Bruce, Lenny
- Buddhism
- Bullough, Geoffrey, 1901-1982
- burlesque theater
- Burton, Richard, 1925-1984
C
- Cady, Edwin Harrison
- Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951
- Callow, Simon, 1949-
- Campbell, Neil (Neil B.)
- Canyon de Chelly
- Capone, Al, 1899-1947
- Caribbean
- Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
- Carmichael, Sarah
- Carr, Marina, 1964-
- Carter, Angela, 1940-1992
- Castillo, Debra A.
- Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
- Catholicism
- Césaire, Aimé
- Chabon, Michael
- chain letters
- characterization
- Charters, Ann
- Chisunka, Chola
- Christianity
- Christopher, Renny
- Cixous, Hélène, 1937-
- Cleary, Kate M.
- Cleese, John
- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
- Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
- Confucius
- Conley, Tim, 1972-
- Connery, Scott
- Conniff, Brian, 1957-
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
- Constable, Pamela
- Cook, Ann Jennalie, 1934-
- Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia), 1858-1964
- Cooper, Pamela, 1955-
- Corbin, David
- Costa, René de
- counterculture
- Cousins, A. D., 1950-
- Cowart, David, 1947-
- Cox, James M. (James Melville), 1925-
- Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977
- crying
- cultural assimilation
- cultural ideology
- cultural pluralism
- culture shock
- Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
D
- Dallas
- Daly, Brenda O., 1941-
- Dangerfield, Rodney, 1921-2004
- Danielewski, Mark Z.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- DC Comics
- De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955
- De Wijze, Stephen
- defamiliarization
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
- Denby, David, 1943-
- Deresiewicz, William, 1964-
- Detmer-Goebel, Emily, 1961-
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
- Didion, Joan
- Diner, Hasia R.
- discomfort
- displacement
- dog
- Dolan, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1960-
- Dolan, T. P.
- Dorfman, Ariel
- Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913
- dream symbolism
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700
- Du Plessis, Menán, 1952-
- duality
- Dunphy, Shane
E
- E. V. B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle), 1825-1916
- ecocriticism
- economic class
- Edinburgh
- Edo period
- Edwards, Eugene
- Egan, Gabriel
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
- Elizabethan society
- Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
- Ellison, Ralph
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Englander, Nathan
- English Renaissance theater
- Estok, Simon C.
- ethical conflict
- European colonialism
- European Renaissance
- Everest
- Ewen, Elizabeth
- eyes
F
- faith
- fall of man
- family
- Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961
- father-son relations
- Faulkner, Kelly
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
- female identity
- female power
- female protagonist
- female-male relations
- feminism
- feminist literary theory and criticism
- Fenichel, Otto
- Feuer, Menachem
- film studies
- Fisher, Diane Gilliam, 1957-
- Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951
- Flanagan, Kieran, 1944-
- Fleissner, Robert F.
- Flemming, Bonnie Mack
- Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
- Ford, John, 1894-1973
- fossils
- Fossum, Robert H.
- Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
- Frank, Barney, 1940-
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Franks, Abigail, 1696-1756
- Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
- Freudian criticism
- Friedan, Betty
- Friel, Brian, 1948-
- Fromm, Harold
- frontier life
- Frye, Northrop
G
- Gaelic identity
- Gao, Xingjian
- Garber, Marjorie B.
- GarcÃa Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014
- Garden of Eden
- Garry, Patrick M.
- Gasché, Rodolphe
- Gates, David, 1947-
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
- Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
- Gay, Ruth
- gender studies
- genealogy
- Genesis
- Gerlach, Jeanne Marcum, 1946-
- Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-
- Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
- Gitzen, Julian
- Glotfelty, Cheryll
- Goddard, Harold Clarke, 1878-1950
- Godshalk, William Leigh
- Gold, Michael, 1893-1967
- Goldfaden, Abraham, 1840-1908
- golem
- González EchevarrÃa, Roberto
- Goodman, Allegra
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Gordin, Jacob, 1853-1909
- Gottschalk, Paul, 1939-
- graduate education
- Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937
- Grant, Mary Kathryn
- Gray, Stephen, 1941-
- Great American novel
- Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-
- Greene, David H. (David Herbert), 1913-2008
- Greengrass, Paul
- Greer, Germaine, 1939-
- Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932
- Grossman, Marshall
- Gubar, Susan, 1944-
- guilt
- Gwynn, Frederick L. (Frederick Landis), 1916-
H
- Habib, Imtiaz H., 1949-
- Hall, Kim F., 1961-
- Hamlet, King of Denmark (character)
- Hapgood, Hutchins, 1869-1944
- Hapgood, Robert
- Harlow, Barbara, 1948-
- Harlow, Ilana Beth
- Harries, Elizabeth Wanning
- Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939
- Hart, Stephen M.
- Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
- Haskalah
- Hawkes, Terence
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
- Head, Dominic
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
- Hearne, Betsy Gould
- hegemony
- Hildreth, James
- Hill, Hamlin Lewis, 1931-2002
- Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989
- Hirschbein, Peretz, 1880-1948
- historical consciousness
- historical fiction
- Holmer, Joan Ozark
- Holocaust survivors
- hooks, bell, 1952-
- Hope, Bob, 1903-2003
- Horn, Dara, 1977-
- Horton, Ralph E. (Ralph Ellison), 1885-
- Howard, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1948-
- Howe, Irving
- Howlett, Kathy M.
- Hudson River
- humanist criticism
- humanity
- Hunt, Tim, 1949-
- Hunter, G. K.
- Hurston, Zora Neale
I
- identity theory
- ideological criticism
- imperialism
- individualism
- intermarriage
- interreligious relations
- intertextuality
- Ireland
- Irish culture
- Irish drama
- Irish fiction
- Irish film
- Irish identity
- Irish Independence movement
- Irish literature
- Irish Republican Army
- Irish women
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
- Iser, Wolfgang
- islamic fundamentalism
J
- Jackson, Curtis, 1975-
- Jackson, Rosemary
- Jacobowitz, Susan
- James, Henry, 1843-1916
- Jameson, Fredric
- Japanese culture
- jazz music
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
- Jewish American culture
- Jewish American dramatists
- Jewish American filmmakers
- Jewish American identity
- Jewish American novelists
- Jewish American writers
- Jewish characters
- Jewish comic hero
- Jewish diaspora
- Jewish Europeans
- Jewish family
- Jewish female characters
- Jewish folklore
- Jewish humor
- Jewish identity
- Jewish immigrant experience
- Jewish literature
- Jewish myth
- Jewish performers
- Jewish Socialism
- Jewish tradition
- Johnson, Greg, 1953-
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
- Jones, Ann Rosalind
- Jones, Ernest, 1879-1958
- Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
- Joseph, Margaret Paul, 1932-
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941
- Judaism
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961
K
- Kael, Pauline
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
- Kahn, Coppélia
- Kathmandu (Nepal)
- Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
- Kearney, Richard
- Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- Kernan, Alvin B.
- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
- Kessler-Harris, Alice
- Kiberd, Declan
- Kimbrough, Robert
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- King Lear (character)
- King Philip's War
- King, M. Luther (Martin Luther), 1899-1965
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
- Kirkland, Caroline M. (Caroline Matilda), 180
- Knight, Deborah, 1953-
- Korsmeyer, Carolyn
- Kossew, Sue
- Kott, Jan
- Kramer, Michael P., 1952-
- Krapp, John, 1965-
- Krause, David, 1917-
- Kriegel, Leonard, 1933-
- Kris, Ernst, 1900-1957
- Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
L
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
- Lacroix-Moulton, Camille
- Lamming, George, 1927-
- landscape
- Latin American culture
- Latin American identity
- Latin American Literature
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930
- Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887
- Lear, Norman
- Led Zeppelin (Musical group)
- Lee, Tanith
- Lehmann, Arthur Heinz, 1909-1956
- Leitch, Vincent B., 1944-
- Leland, John, 1959-
- Leonard, Benny, 1896-1947
- Leprince de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie, 1711-1780
- Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927
- lesbian characters
- lesbian marriage
- Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
- Lichtenberg, Joseph D.
- light symbolism
- Lincoln, Jeanie Gould, 1846-1921
- linguistics
- Linton, James-Ethan
- literary meaning
- literary theory and criticism
- Lithuania
- Loach, Ken, 1936-
- Lockett, Christopher
- Loomba, Ania
- Lower East Side
- Lucas, George, 1944-
- Lucking, David
- Lukács, György, 1885-1971
- Lupton, Julia Reinhard, 1963-
- Lutwack, Leonard, 1917-2008
- Lynn, Kenneth Schuyler
- Lyon, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1937-
M
- Maclean, Hugh, 1919-
- Maffi, Mario, 1947-
- magic realism
- Mahfouz, Najib, 1911-2006
- Major, Clarence
- Malamud, Bernard
- male identity
- male power
- male supremacy
- Malpas, Jeff
- manifest destiny
- Mannoni, Octave
- Marais, Michael
- marijuana
- Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
- marriage
- Martineau, David
- Marvel Enterprises, Inc.
- Marvel, Captain
- Marx, Leo, 1919-
- Marxism
- Marxist literary theory and criticism
- Marzola, Alessandra
- Massachusetts
- Märchen
- McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
- McDonagh, Martin
- McGrath, F. C. (Francis Charles)
- McKinley, Robin
- McManus, James, 1836-1920
- McMurray, George R., 1925-
- McNeir, Waldo F.
- McQueen, Steve, 1969-
- medievalism
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
- memory
- mental asylum
- metaphysics
- microcosm
- Miller, Jim Wayne
- Miller, Jonathan, 1934-
- Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright), 1916-1962
- Milton, John, 1608-1674
- mining
- Minta, Stephen
- Mintz, Thomas
- misogyny
- Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949
- Mizener, Arthur
- Molloy, Sylvia, 1938-
- monarchy
- moon imagery
- Moon, Krystyn R., 1974-
- morality
- Morrison, Toni
- Morrissette, Billy
- Moses, Michael Valdez, 1957-
- Motion Picture Association of America
- mountaineering
- Muller, Eddie
- Mulligan, Diane
- Murray, Albert
N
- Naremore, James
- narrative displacement
- narrative structure
- narrative time
- Nash, Catherine
- Native Americans
- Neely, Carol Thomas, 1939-
- Negritude
- Nelson, Tim Blake
- New England literature
- New Historicism
- New Orleans
- Newman, Karen, 1949-
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
- nihilism
- nineteenth-century studies
- Northampton (Mass.)
- Northern Ireland
- Nunez, Elizabeth
O
- O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964
- O'Sullivan, John L. (John Louis), 1813-1895
- O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- Obama, Barack
- Oedipal conflict
- Omer-Sherman, Ranen
- oppression
- organized religion
- Orgel, Stephen
- orientalism
- Orthodox Jews
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950
- Othello (character)
- otherness
- Ozick, Cynthia
P
- painter
- painting
- parricide
- patriarchal power
- Pérez, Alberto Julián
- personal narrative
- perspective
- Petruchio (character)
- pets
- Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943
- phenomenology
- Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags, -1676
- Pinsker, Sanford
- Plato
- play within a play
- poker (card game)
- Polanski, Roman
- Porter, Eliot, 1901-1990
- postcolonial literary theory and criticism
- postmodernist literary theory and criticism
- Potter, James L. (James Lain)
- pregnancy
- Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977
- professor
- Protestantism
- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
- psychoanalytic literary theory and criticism
- Purimshpil
- Puritans
R
- Rabkin, Norman
- racism
- Rackin, Phyllis
- rain symbolism
- Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
- Ranald, Margaret Loftus
- reader response literary theory and criticism
- reading
- Realist movement
- regicide
- regionalism
- religious doubt
- religious ideologies
- religious symbolism
- Respini, Eva
- revolutionary politics
- Rhys, Jean
- Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914
- Rischin, Moses, 1925-
- Robinson, Lorna
- Rocky Mountains
- RodrÃguez Monegal, Emir
- Romeo and Juliet
- Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 1947-
- Rosenbaum, Thane
- Rosenberg, Marvin
- Rosenshield, Gary
- Rosenthal, Daniel, 1971-
- Rossiter, A. P. (Arthur Percival), -1957
- Roth, Henry
- Roth, Philip
- Rubin, Derek, 1954-
- Ruby, Jack
- Rushdie, Salman
- Rushe, Desmond
S
- Saddlemyer, Ann
- sadism
- Said, Edward W.
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
- Sandrow, Nahma
- satire
- Schoenfeld, Eugene, 1935-
- Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920
- Schultz, Duane P.
- Schultz, Sydney Ellen
- Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966
- Scotland
- Scott, A. O., 1966-
- Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
- sea imagery
- secondary schools
- secular humanism
- Segal, Elaine
- self-consciousness
- self-identity
- self-improvement
- self-justification
- self-preservation
- semiotics
- sex roles
- Sexton, Ann, 1950-
- sexual stereotypes
- Sfar, Joann
- Shakespeare
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Shapiro, Ann R., 1937-
- Shapiro, James, 1955-
- shared identity
- Shatzky, Jacob, -1956
- sheep
- Sheridan, Jim, 1949-
- Shuster, Joe, 1914-1992
- Shylock (character)
- Siegel, Jerry, 1914-1996
- Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865
- Simpkins, Scott, 1958-
- slavery
- Slights, Camille Wells
- Slocombe, Will, 1978-
- Slotkin, Richard, 1942-
- Smith, Barbara, 1948 June 20-
- Smith, Henry Nash
- snow symbolism
- social consciousness
- social values
- sociopolitical context
- Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-
- Socratic method
- South Africa
- South African literature
- South American literature
- Southern American culture
- Southern Renaissance
- Soyinka, Wole
- Spies, Marion
- Spillers, Hortense J.
- Spinrad, Phoebe S.
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
- stage Irishman
- Stephens, Edward M.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom'
- Stubbes, Phillip
- subaltern identity
- submissiveness
- Sundquist, Eric J.
- Superhero
- Superman (character)
- supremacy
- Swales, Martin
- Sweden
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
- symbiosis
- Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909
T
- Taiwan
- Tallman, Warren, 1921-1994
- Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595
- Taylor, Anne-Marie, 1964-
- Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011
- teaching
- Thames River
- the Holocaust
- Theado, Matt, 1959-
- Third Reich
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Thompson, Ann, 1947-
- Thompson, Joseph P. (Joseph Parrish), 1819-18
- Thorpe, Thomas Bangs, 1815-1878
- Tiffany, Grace, 1958-
- Tillinghast, Richard
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1
- Torah
- Tower of London
- Travers, P. L. (Pamela Lyndon), 1899-1996
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Af
- Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-
- Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleb
U
- Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972
- University of Paris
V
- Vanita, Ruth
- violence
W
- Walt Disney Company
- water symbolism
- Wayne, John, 1907-1979
- wedding imagery
- Weisberg, Richard H., 1944-
- Welles, Orson, 1915-1985
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
- Wenger, Beth S., 1963-
- West Virginia
- Western literary tradition
- westward movement
- White Mountains (New Hampshire)
- Whitfield, Stephen J., 1942-
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
- Wilentz, Gay Alden, 1950-
- William I, King of England, 1027 or 1028-1087
- Williams, Raymond L.
- Willson, Meredith, 1902-1984
- winter
- Wittig, Monique
- Wolf, Matthew, 1972-
- Woodbridge, Linda, 1945-
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
- world literature
- World War II
Y
- Yeats, Jack B. (Jack Butler), 1871-1957
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
- Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970
- Yiddish literature
- Yiddish theater
- Yoknapatawpha
- Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro, 1961-
Z
- Zavala, Iris M.
- Zeffirelli, Franco
- Zibel, Scott
- Zionism
- Zipes, Jack, 1937-
- Zitkala-S̈a, 1876-1938