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Vlfi(.if LfU VI‘»' ’r DICTIONARY OF LITERARY THEMES AND MOTIFS DICTIONARY OF LITERARY !I SEMES AND MOTIFS L-Z JEAN-CHARLES SEIGNEURET, EDITOR A. Owen Aldridge, Armin Arnold, and Peter H. Lee, EDITORIAL BOARD Madeleine G. Demers, RESEARCH CONSULTANT Kabimbi John Kalubi, EDITORIAL ASSISTANT GREENWOOD PRESS NEW YORK • WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT • LONDON Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dictionary of literary themes and motifs. Includes indexes. 1. Literature, Comparative—Themes, motives— Dictionaries. I. Seigneuret, Jean-Charles. PN43.D48 1988 809'.933'0321 87-12004 ISBN 0-313-22943-0 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) ISBN 0-313-26396-5 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper: vol. 1) ISBN 0-313-26397-3 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper: vol. 2) British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 1988 by Jean-Charles Seigneuret, A. Owen Aldridge, Armin Arnold, and Peter H. Lee All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 87-12004 ISBN 0-313-22943-0 (set) ISBN 0-313-26396-5 (v.l) ISBN 0-313-26397-3 (v.2) First published in 1988 Greenwood Press, Inc. 88 Post Road West, Westport, Connecticut 06881 Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984). 10 987654321 CONTENTS // - - PREFACE Xi INTRODUCTION BY FRANCOIS JOST XV Adolescence 1 Afterlife 10 Alchemy 18 Alienation 31 Amazons 43 Androgyny 49 Anti-Hero 59 Anti-Intellectualism 65 Anti-Semitism 73 Anxiety 84 Apocalypse 87 Apology (Self-Defense of Satirists and Humorists) 97 Arcadia 105 Artist in Literature through the Renaissance 112 Artist/Poet in Drama since the Renaissance 129 Autobiographical Impulse 135 Banker, Financier, and Usurer 143 Bear 157 Beat Generation 162 La Belle Dame sans Merci 169 CONTENTS VI Birth of the Hero 175 Braggart 191 Butterflies 198 Capitalism 207 Cave 222 Christian Hero 231 Christianity versus Christendom 237 Cinema 248 City 257 Clothing 264 Comedy (Comic Spirit) 275 Comic Hero 286 Crippling 295 Daemon 299 Dance 307 Dance of Death 321 Death and the Individual 328 Demonic Music 346 Demonic Musician and the Soulbird 358 Descent into Hell 363 Detective 372 Dialogue 387 Divine Tutor 395 Dragons 400 Dream 406 Dwarf 414 Dystopias 421 Eating 431 Emblem 439 Epistemology 450 Escape 460 Evil 470 Existentialism 485 CONTENTS vii Family 497 Feminism 511 Fool 526 Fortune 538 Great Father 547 Grotesque 559 Hermit 573 Hieroglyphics 581 Hippie 590 History in American Literature 601 Homosexuality 609 Horror 622 Hunt 634 Incest 649 Incubus and Succubus 665 Jealousy 675 Labyrinth 691 Lameness 697 Language 701 Laughter 711 Law 721 Leader 733 Lesbianism 747 Libertine 759 Liebestod 768 Lion 775 Literature within Literature 780 Love in Greek and Roman Literature 790 Love Triangle 803 Marriage 819 Masque or Mask 827 Melancholy 834 Metamorphosis 842 CONTENTS Mirror 850 Money 859 Monsters 870 Mountaineering 876 Name and Naming 885 Nature: Naturae Cursus and the State of Nature 893 Nihilism 899 Noble Criminal 915 Noble Savage 918 Oedipus Complex 929 Pacifism 935 Pact with the Devil 941 Parents and Children 948 Peasant in Novels 958 Personality (Double-Split-Multiple) 963 Philately 970 Picaresque 974 The Pfcaro in American Literature 983 Pride 991 The Prostitute with a Good Heart 998 Psychic Landscape 1005 Psychoanalysis of the Self 1009 Rape 1021 Rat, Mouse 1028 Reason 1035 Rebellion 1045 Religion in Science Fiction 1057 Responsibility 1060 Retreat 1068 Robots and Computers 1081 Role Playing 1090 Scapegoat 1109 Scatology 1117
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