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Nick Carraway, 139, 144, 146
Nicolson, Nigel, 152
O
Odysseus, 68, 121–136. See also
Ulysses
Odyssey, The (Homer), 121–136, 213
absence of hero in, 123–124
Achilles in, 126, 127, 130–131,
135
causes of action in, 129
design in, 128
disguise in, 131, 132
epic action in, 127
first/second parts of, 130
intrigue in, 130, 131, 132
Sect. III, 122–125
Sect. IV, 125–126
Sect. V, 127–132
Sect. VI, 132–135
siege of Troy in, 125, 128
unity in, 125–126
Old Shirts & New Skins (Louis),
9–10, 14, 15–16
Oldsey, Bernard S., 71, 74
“On Parables” (Kafka), 103
“On Pincher Martin” (Hynes), 64
On the Road (Kerouac), 137–150,
146–147
Augie March in, 142, 145, 148
book’s central question, 148
Dean Moriarty in, 137, 145–149,
149
faith, state of, 138–139
Gatsby and, 139, 144, 146, 148
IT in, 146–147
Merry Pranksters in, 141, 144,
145
monologues in, 143
Neal Cassady in, 137, 139–145,
149
Index 249
Sal Paradise, narrator of, 145, 146
traveling light, 138
Orlando (Woolf ), 151–158
as Bildungsroman/biography, 152
biographer’s “tricks of the trade,”
152–154
fictional biographer for, 153
identity and, 155, 156, 157
self/gender-bending in, 151, 153,
155–157
time/space in, 154–155
trickster in, 151, 152
Othello (Shakespeare), 47
Over the Border (Kesey), 140
P
Paper Men (Golding), 65
Paradiso (Dante), 60
paradoxical qualities, 93, 106, 111, 114
Petrarch, 56
Canzoniere, 54
Pincher Martin (Golding), 65, 67–71
Greek mythical characters and,
68–69
Pincher’s character in, 69, 70, 72,
73, 74
scene set for, 67
Plath, Sylvia, 16
Poetics (Aristotle), 121
poetry. See also epic poem
modern verse innovators, 10
poetical reality/world, 191, 192
Politzer, Heinz, 103
Pound, Ezra, 13, 14
powers of the universe, 93
practical jokes, 2, 115
Praisesong for the Widow (Marshall),
170, 178–185
continuity and, 179–180, 182, 183
dream sequence in, 181–182
identity and, 181, 182