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Index 237Duke, Duchess and, 58, 60failure and, 55, 56heroism and, 57honesty/candor in, 56illusions of, 52, 53, 58imagination and, 60irony in, 55, 58knight-errant theme, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57language and, 60, 168moods in, 61narratives, 56–57, 60–61religious kernel and, 62romances and, 54Sancho Panza in, 52, 54, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62dragon/monster slayingin Beowulf, 32, 33–34in Lord of the Rings, 112Waldere tale and, 31EEliot, George, 87, 131–139, 170Harold Bloom on, 131real name of, 131Ellison, Ralph, 76Empson, William, 23English Novel: Form and Function (VanGhent), 167–181Epic of Gilgamesh, The, 63–74afterlife/underworld and, 66Babylonian versions of, 64, 65, 66, 69, 72–73BCE origin of, 64biblical references, 64, 67, 69, 71Bull of Heaven in, 67, 70, 71Enkidu in, 63, 65, 66, 67–68, 68–71fame and, 66–67goddess Ishtar in, 67, 68, 70heroism and, 63, 66, 67–68, 73Humbaba in, 66, 68, 70, 71immortality and, 71–72modern translations of, 65mortality/immortality and, 71, 72, 73motivation in, 65–66narratives, 65–66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72–73polytheistic culture and, 67sun/sky gods in, 67Uruk and, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68Utnapishtim in, 67, 71–72world’s oldest known story, 64epic traditionepic hero, 163, 167, 196epic poems, 26, 158, 166epic stories, 27strength of, 32, 37two kinds of epic, 63–64Euripides, 2Evelina (Burney), 188–189Everett, Dorothy, 197, 200, 201Ffeminist beliefs, 137Fielding, Henry, 170, 171Fire Next Time, The (Baldwin), 76Forbes, Cheryl, 228–229Forster, E.M., 41–42Frye, Northrop, 135GGarrett, Peter K., 132–133Gil Bas, 40Gilmour, Robin, 48Girard, M., 6Glover, T.R., 1–10Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin), 75–84biblical references, 79, 80, 81biographical foundations in, 77blackness, evil and, 80, 81Harlem ghetto and, 76, 77identity and, 82John Grimes in, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82language in, 76metaphorical possibilities in, 79moral evasion in, 80–81narratives, 80, 81Negro Church and, 77, 81race relations in America and, 79, 32rejection and shame in, 79–80, 81self-hatred and, 80, 81sexual/racial freedom and, 77Great Decade of poetry, xiiiGreat Expectations (Dickens), 87Greek tragedy, 135Green, Richard Hamilton, 197, 201Grettis Saga, 36Gudmund, Aroson (Bishop of Holar), 34Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn), 99HHamlet, xiiiHamm, Jean Shepherd, 225–232“Harlem Renaissance” movement, 75