Pound, Ezra
Procrustes
Profit, as measure of value Proteus
Proust, Marcel; La Prisonnière
Publishing industry: editor’s role in; and electronic reading; promotion of books; and small publishers
Puig, Manuel; Kiss of the Spider Woman
Punctuation
Queen’s Quarterly
Quem auctor intendit (“what the author intended”)
Queneau, Raymond, A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems
Quintilian
Qur’an
Rabelais
Ramelli, Agostino
Reading: alterations over time; as anonymous act; Augustine on; commentary on text; and comprehension; constraints on; Dante’s levels of; democratic; devotional; electronic text; forms of; future of; gardening associated with; as homecoming; ideal reader; imaginary space of; interactive text; learning to read; naming task in; purpose of; reader’s positive blindness; and rereading; as safe place in incomprehensible world; and self-discovery; silent; subversive readings; turning of a page. See also Books; Libraries; Literature
Reagan, Ronald
Rechy, John
Reid, Alastair
Religion: and blasphemy; contrition ritual in; conversion of Guarini; etymology; and humor; Kabbalists
Renard, Jules
Renham, Henry de
Ricci, Franco Maria
Rimbaud, Arthur
Risso Platero, Emma
Rivadavia (pseud.)
Roa Bastos, Augusto
Robespierre, Maximilien
Rodriguez, Félix
Rojas, Pedro
Roman de la Rose
Romilly, Jacqueline de, La Grèce antique à la découverte de la liberté
Rowling, J. K.
Rushdie, Salman
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
Sabato, Ernesto
Sade, marquis de
Saer, Juan José
Saikaku, Ihara
Salinger, J. D.; Catcher in the Rye
Sanssouci, gardens at
Santiago, Hugo
Sarduy, Severo
Saro-Wiwa, Ken
Saturday Night
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Schliemann, Heinrich
Scholasticism
Scholem, Gershom
Schrott, Raoul
Schwarz-Bart, André
Schwob, Marcel, Imaginary Lives
Sciascia, Leonardo
Scientific research: on AIDS drugs; as intellectual property; moral imperatives in; and profit
Scilingo, Adolfo Francisco
Scott, Walter, Kenilworth
Scrolls
Scudéry, Mademoiselle de, Clélie
Selich, Andrés
Sexuality. See Erotic experience; Erotic literature; Homosexuality
Shakespeare, William; Borges’s lecture on; The Comedy of Errors; Henry IV; King Lear
Shaw, George Bernard; Major Barbara
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shi Huangdi
Siciliano, Enzo
Simenon, Georges
Sirens: dangers of song; of Dante; descriptions of; legends about; in Odyssey; in Republic
Smith, Corlies M.
Soames, Enoch
Socrates; on truth-sayers
Solanas, Fernando
Song of Songs
Sophocles, Ajax
Sorrentino, Fernando
South Africa, AIDS drugs in
Spain, Franco-era
Spectator
Stair, Nadine
Stalin, Joseph
Stallo, Luis
Stampa
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John
Steiner, George; After Babel
Stendhal; The Red and the Black
Sterne, Laurence; Tristram Shandy
Stevens, Wallace
Stevenson, Robert Louis; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island
Stewart, Paul
Stoppard, Tom, The Invention of Love
Sue, Eugène
Suetonius
Sumerian slabs and tablets
Summers, Claude J., Gay Fictions
Sur
Swan, Susan
Swift, Jonathan; Gulliver’s Travels
Talmud, Babylonian
Taylor, Bayard, Joseph and His Friend
Tenniel, John
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Testamentary works
Thomas, Edward
Thoreau, Henry David, “Civil Disobedience,”
Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll); constructed identity in; insane world of; literary faith in; naming task in; reading experience in; Red Queen’s denial in
Tiberius, Emperor
Torah
Torpéist, Senchán
Torre, Guillermo de
Trag, William
Translation
Truth, perseverance of
Truth-sayers
Tzotzil dictionary
Valéry, Paul
Value: of art; Mad Hatter’s code of; of Montezuma’s treasure; precedence of economic; words denoting
Vargas Llosa, Mario, defense of Menem’s amnesty
Varro, Marcus
Vellum
Vermeer, Johannes, View of Delft
Verne, Jules, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Victor Gollancz
Victoria, Queen
Vidal, Gore, The City and the Pillar
Videla, Jorge
Viking Penguin
Viola, Roberto
Virgil
Vise, David, The Bureau and the Mole
Vitali, Guido
Völsunga Saga
Voltaire: Candide; Essai sur les moeurs; and Friedrich II; at Sanssouci; Sémiramis
Walcott, Derek
Walcott, Joyce
Walpole, Horace
Walsh, Rodolfo
Wandering Jew
Warfare, universal
Washington Post
Weldon, Fay
Wells, H. G., The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wendover, Roger of West, Rebecca
White, Edmund, A Boy’s Own Story
Whitman, Walt; Leaves of Grass
Wilbur, Richard
Wilde, Oscar; The Picture of Dorian Gray; “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.,”
Wilderness, garden as
Williams, Tennessee, One Arm and Other Stories
Wilson, Edmund
Winterson, Jeanette, The Passion
Winthrop, Theodore, Cecil Dreme
Wolf, Friedrich August
Wolfe, Thomas
Woolf, Virginia
Word games
World Digital Library
Writing: and author’s intentions; becoming a writer; as collaborative effort; cuneiform script; and editor’s interventions; invention and development of; and literary ambition; obligation of truth; punctuation of; warfare as constraint on,. See also Literature
Xenophanes of Colophon
Xueqin Cao
Yakhontov, Vladimir
Yeats, William Butler
Yourcenar, Marguerite: Alexis; A Blue Tale; “How Wang Fo Was Saved,”