Index

Abbott, H. Porter

action; and framing; and narrative drive; as synonym for plot; role of in traditional narratology; unity of

actors

Adoration of the Magi in the Snow, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (Doyle, Arthur Conan)

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (Werker, Alfred L.)

Aeneid, The (Vergil); as dual-focus; plot of

Aethiopica (Heliodorus)

Airport (Seaton, George)

Alger, Horatio

allegory

All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque, Erich Maria)

Alpine Landscape with Deep Valley (Bruegel Pieter)

Altman, Rick

analysis

An American in Paris (Minnelli, Vincente)

An Ephesian Tale (Xenophon)

Annunciation, The (Da Vinci, Leonardo)

antagonist

Antoine, André

Antonioni, Michelangelo; Zabriskie Point

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Apuleius, Lucius; Metamorphoses or the Golden Ass

Ariosto, Lodovico; Orlando Furioso

Aristotelian unities

Aristotle; as producer of classical definition of narrative; influence of on neo-classical theorists; Poetics

Armance (Stendhal [Henri Beyle])

Armstrong, Nancy

Ass at School, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Assommoir, L’ (Zola, Émile)

Astaire, Fred

Astérix le Gaulois (Goscinny, René)

Astrée, L’ (Urfé, Honoré d’)

Atala (Chateaubriand, François René)

Athanasius; Life of Saint Anthony

Aucassin et Nicolette (Anonymous)

Auden, W. H.

Augustine; City of God; Confessions as single-focus

Austen, Jane

—Pride and Prejudice and; as single-focus; following-pattern of

author; in multiple-focus

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Franklin, Benjamin)

 

Bakhtin, Milhail

Bal, Mieke

Balzac, Honoré de; bachelor novels of; use of by Barthes

—Chouans, Les

—Curé de Tours, Le

—Grandeur et décadence de César Birotteau

—Père Goriot, Le; as single-focus; dual-focus adaptations of ; mapping of

—Recherche de l ’absolu, La

Band Wagon, The (Minnelli, Vincente)

Barbéris, Pierre

Barnet, Sylvan

Barthes, Roland

Bataan (Garnett, Tay)

Batrachomyomachia (Anonymous)

Battle of the Books (Swift, Jonathan)

Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, Sergei)

Bede

—Life of Saint Cuthbert; as used by Pächt

beginning

Berman, Morton

Bernhardt, Sarah

Best Years of our Lives, The (Wyler, William)

Bible, the; Apocalypse; Daniel; Esther; Exodus; Genesis; Judges; I Kings; Luke; Mark; Matthew; New Testament; Old Testament; Ruth; Song of Songs; I Thessalonians

Big Fish Eat Little Fish (Bruegel, Pieter)

Big Red One, The (Fuller, Sam)

Bildungsroman

Birth of a Nation, The (Griffith, D. W.)

Blackhawk Films

Boccaccio; Decameron, The; Filostrato

Bonaventura, Friedrich Gottlieb Wetzel

Bonne, Jean-Claude

Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, Arthur)

Booth, Wayne

Borges, Jorge Luis; “Funes the Memorius,”

Bosch, Hieronymus; Epiphany;Garden of Earthly Delights, The

Boucicault, Dion

Branigan, Edward

Brecht, Bertolt

Brera Altarpiece (Francesca, Piero della)

Bride Wore Black, The (Truffaut, François)

Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (Wilder, Thornton)

Brombert, Victor

Brooks, Peter

Bruegel, Pieter; allegorical compositions of; biography of; hem-naming and; historical context of works; mapping and; space in works of; style of; themes of; works of as multiple-focus; use of perspective

Bruegel, Pieter, works of

—Adoration of the Magi in the Snow

—Alpine Valley

—Ass at School, The

—Big Fish Eat Little Fish

—Census of Bethlehem, The

—Children’s Games; as multiple-focus; perspective in; spatial organization in

—Christ Carrying the Cross

—Combat Between Carnival and Lent, The

—Conversion of Saint Paul, The

—Cunning Bird Catcher, The

—Dulle Griet

—Elck; figure of; mapping of; poem depicted in; themes expressed in

—Fair at Hoboken, The

—Fall of the Magician

—Fall of the Rebel Angels

—Flemish Proverbs

—Hay Making

—Land of Cockaigne, The

—Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

—Last Judgement, The

—Mad Meg

—Massacre of the Innocents, The

—Peasant Dance

—Peasant Wedding

—Peasant Wedding Dance

—Penitent Mary Magdalene

—Prudentia; hem-naming in; themes in

—Saint James and Hermogenes

—Saint Jerome in the Desert

—Sermon of Saint John the Baptist, The

—Seven Cardinal Vices, The

—Seven Cardinal Virtues, The

—Suicide of Saul

—Summer

—Temptation of Saint Anthony, The

—Tower of Babel, The

—Triumph of Death, The

—Twelve Flemish Proverbs

—Woman Taken in Adultery, The

—Witch of Malleghem, The

Buddenbrooks (Mann, Thomas)

Buñuel, Luis; Viridiana

Bunyan, John; Pilgrim’s Progress

Burto, William

Bush, George W.

 

Cameron, James; Titanic

Camille (Dumas, Alexandre [fils])

Campbell, Joseph

Camus, Albert; Fall, The; La Peste

Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer, Geoffrey)

carnivalesque

Caron, Leslie

Carroll, Noël

“Case of Identity, A” (Doyle, Arthur Conan)

Castelvetro, Lodovico

category,

causality

Caves du Vatican, Les. See Lafcadio’s Adventures

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand; Journey to the End of the Night

Census at Bethlehem, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Cent nouvelles nouvelles, Les (Anonymous)

centrifugal

centripetal

Cervantes, Miguel de; Don Quixote

change

Chaplin, Charlie; Great Dictator, The

character; as author of narrative; as author stand-in; as category; as celebrity; as interpreter of world; as narrative material; as subordinated to plot; causality and; following and; in dual-focus epic; in dual-focus pastoral; in multiple-focus narrative; in pictorial texts; in single-focus narrative; mapping and; metaphoric modulations and; metonymic modulations and; narrative drive and; psychology of; quest-driven; secondary

Charisse, Cyd

Charnes, Jean Antoine de

Chateaubriand, François René; Atala; René

Charterhouse of Parma, The (Stendhal [Henri Beyle])

Chatman, Seymour

Chaucer, Geoffrey; Canterbury Tales, The; Troilus and Cressida

Chevalier, Maurice

Children’s Games (Bruegel, Pieter); as multiple-focus; perspective in; spatial organization in

Chouans, Les (Balzac, Honoré de)

Christ Carrying the Cross (Bruegel, Pieter)

Christianity; apocalypse and; as artifactual; dual-focus narrative and; in graphic art; single-focus narrative and

Christie, Agatha; Death on the Nile

Chronique du règne de Charles IX (Mérimée, Prosper)

Cid, Le (Corneille, Pierre)

cinema. See film

Cinq-Mars (Vigny, Alfred de)

city

City of God (Augustine)

Civil Disobedience (Thoreau, Henry David)

Clair, René

Cligés (Troyes, Chrétien de)

Climacus, John; Climax

Cock, Jerome (Hieronymus)

Combat Between Carnival and Lent (Bruegel, Pieter)

comics; books; strips

Commissaire Maigret, Le (Simenon, Georges)

composition; allegorical; around empty center; in works of Bruegel

Condition humaine, La (Malraux, André); as multiple-focus

Confessions (Augustine); as single-focus;

Congreve; Incognita

Conques, Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy; as dual-focus; description of; Tympanum of West Entrance

Conrad, Joseph; Nostromo

Conversion of Saint Paul, The (Bruegel Pieter)

Coscienza di Zeno, La (Svevo, Italo)

Cooper, Merian; King Kong

Coppola, Francis Ford; Rain People The

Corneille, Pierre; Le Cid

corpus

Cousin Pons, Le (Balzac, Honoré de)

Counterfeiters, The. See Faux-monnayeurs, Les

Crane, Stephen; narrative technique of

—Red Badge of Courage; as single-focus; as war story; mapping of

Crébillon, Claude de; Le Sopha

Cricket on the Hearth, The (Griffith, D. W.)

Croce, Benedetto

Cunning Bird Catcher, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Curé de Tours, Le (Balzac, Honoré de)

 

Dame aux camélias, La (Dumas, Alexandre [fils])

Daniel Deronda (Eliot, George)

Dante; Divine Comedy The

Danto, A. C.

Daphnis and Chloe (Longus); as dual-focus pastoral; gender difference in

Darkness at Noon (Koestler, Arthur)

Davies, Andrew; Pride and Prejudice (BBC)

Da Vinci, Leonardo; Annunciation The

Day After, The (Meyer, Nicholas)

Death on the Nile (Christie, Agatha)

Decameron, The (Boccaccio)

definition

Defoe, Daniel; Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe

Del Rio, Dolores

De Mille, Cecil B.; Unconquered

Deposition, The (Van der Weyden, Rogier)

Descartes, René

De Sica, Vittorio; Garden of the Finzi-Contini, The

desire; biblical; character psychology as; in saints’ lives; opposed to slot-logic; ritual and

detective fiction; as single-focus narrative; confession compared to;

Diable boîteux, Le (Lesage, Alain-René)

Diary of a Seducer, The (Kierkegaard, Søren)

Dickens, Charles; Little Dorrit; Nicholas Nickleby; Oliver Twist

Diderot, Denis; Encyclopédie; Jacques le fataliste et son maître

diegesis

difference

Divine Comedy, The (Dante)

Dolce Vita, La (Fellini, Federico)

Don Quixote (Cervantes, Miguel de)

Dostoevsky, Feodor; Notes from the Underground

Douglas, Gordon; Them!

Doyle, Arthur Conan; “A Case of Identity”; Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson, Robert Louis)

Dreiser, Theodore

Dryden, John

dual-focus narrative; and community; and historical fiction; as amoebic; character in; Christianity and; compared to multiple-focus narrative; compared to single-focus narrative; definition of; dependence on oppositions; economics and; epic mode of; film and; group in; images and; Judaism and; land in; marriage in; narration and; pastoral mode of; plot of; Song of Roland as; text as; transformational approach and; typological approach and

Ducasse, Isidore Lucien (Lautréamont)

Dulle Griet (Bruegel, Pieter)

Dumas, Alexandre (fils); La Dame aux camélias

Du Plaisir; Sentiments sur les lettres

 

Eagleton, Terry

Earthquake! (Robson, Mark)

Easy Rider (Hopper, Dennis)

economics; as narrative; dual-focus narrative and; single-focus narrative and

Eddy, Nelson

Éducation sentimentale, L’ (Flaubert, Gustave)

Eisenstein, Sergei; Battleship Potemkin

Einstein, Albert

Elck (Bruegel, Pieter); figure of; mapping of; poem depicted in; themes expressed in

Eliade, Mircea

Eliot, George; Daniel Deronda; Middlemarch

Empson, William

Encyclopédie (Diderot, Denis)

“Endicott and the Red Cross” (Hawthorne, Nathaniel)

endings

Enoch Arden (Griffith, D. W.)

Enuma Elish (Anonymous)

epic; as devalued form

Epiphany (Bosch, Hieronymus)

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Érec et Énide (Troyes, Chrétien de)

Eschenbach, Wolfram von

expulsion: dual-focus and

 

Fair at Hoboken, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Falk, Peter

Fall, The (Camus, Albert)

Fall of the Magician (Bruegel, Pieter)

Fall of the Rebel Angels (Bruegel, Pieter)

Faust (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von)

Faute de l ’abbé Mouret, La (Zola, Émile)

Faux-monnayeurs, Les (Gide, André); as multiple-focus

Felix; Life of Saint Guthlac

Fellini, Federico; Dolce Vita, La; I Vitelloni

Fénelon, François; Télémaque

Fielding, Henry; Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones

Fighting Seabees, The (Ludwig, Edward)

film; dual-focus narrative and; early history of; multiple-focus narrative and; road genre of; single-focus narrative and; war genre of

Filostrato (Boccaccio)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Great Gatsby, The

Flaubert, Gustave; free indirect style of

—Éducation sentimentale, L’

—Madame Bovary; as single-focus

—Salammbô

Flemish Proverbs (Bruegel, Pieter)

Fletcher, Angus

Flying Down to Rio (Cooper, Merian)

Foch, Nina

following; modulations and; multiple-focus and; narrational activity and

following-pattern; alternating; dual-focus narrative and; multiple-focus narrative and; narrative history and; rhetorical approach and; single-focus narrative and; Song of Roland and

following-unit; hyperbolic modulation and; metaphoric modulation and; metonymic modulation and

Ford, John; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon; Wagonmaster

formalism

Forsyte Saga, The (Galsworthy, John)

Foster, George M.

Fox, Edward

framing

Francesca, Piero della; Brera Altarpiece; Resurrection

Franklin, Benjamin; Autobiography

free indirect style

Freeland, Thornton

Frye, Northrop

Fuller, Sam; Big Red One, The

“Funes the Memorius” (Borges, Jorge Luis)

 

Galsworthy, John; Forsyte Saga, The

Garcia Landa, José Angel

Garden of Earthly Delights, The (Bosch, Hieronymus)

Garden of the Finzi-Contini, The (De Sica, Vittorio)

Garner, James

Garnett, Tay; Bataan

Garrett, Peter

gender

Genette, Gérard

Germinal (Zola, Émile); bodily metaphor in

Gide, André; Faux-monnayeurs, Les; Immoraliste, L’; Lafcadio’s Adventures; Porte étroite, La; Symphonie pastorale, La

Gigi (Minnelli, Vincente)

Gil Blas de Santillane (Lesage, Alain-René)

Gillette, William

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Faust

“Gold Bug, The” (Poe, Edgar Allan)

Goldmann, Lucien

Goscinny, René; Astérix le Gaulois

Gothic novel

Grail romance

Grandeur et décadence de César Birotteau (Balzac, Honoré de)

Grand Illusion, The (Renoir, Jean)

Great Dictator, The (Chaplin, Charlie)

Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald, F. Scott)

Gregory the Great; Life of Saint Benedict

Greimas, A. J.

Griffith, D. W.; Birth of a Nation, The; Cricket on the Hearth, The; Enoch Arden; Intolerance; Judith of Bethulia; Lonedale Operator, The; Lonely Villa, The; Ramona

group; as protagonist in dual-focus narrative; de-emphasized in single-focus narrative

Guétary, Georges

Guilleragues, Gabriel de; Les Lettres portugaises

Guillermin, John; Towering Inferno, The

Gulliver’s Travels (Swift, Jonathan)

 

Halliday, E. M.

Hammett, Dashiell; Maltese Falcon, The

Hardy, Thomas; Tess of the d ’Urbervilles

Harris, Joel Chandler; Uncle Remus

Hawthorne, Nathaniel; “Endicott and the Red Cross,”

—House of the Seven Gables, The; as dual-focus pastoral

—Scarlet Letter, The; as single-focus; characterization of Hester Prynne in; eccentricity as organizing principle of; following pattern of; gaze in; importance of Puritanism to; mapping of; metonymic modulation of

Hay Making (Bruegel, Pieter)

Heliodorus; Aethiopica

hem-naming

Hendricks, William

Henri IV

Heptaméron, L’ (Navarre, Marguerite de)

Herman, Luc

hermeneutics

hero

Herrad of Lansberg; Hortus Deliciarum

Hersey, John

—Hiroshima; as multiple-focus; hyperbolic modulation in

Hesiod; Theogony

Hesse, Hermann; Steppenwolf

Hiroshima (Hersey, John); as multiple-focus; hyperbolic modulation in

history; narrative and; of film; of literature

History (Tacitus)

History of Pendennis (Thackeray, William Makepeace)

History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)

Hitchcock, Alfred; Notorious

Hollywood; musicals and; Westerns and

Homer; Iliad, The

—Odyssey, The; as single-focus; in Poetics

Hommes de bonne volonté, Les (Romains, Jules)

Hopper, Dennis; Easy Rider

Hortus Deliciarum (Herrad of Lansberg)

House of Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne, Nathaniel); as dual-focus pastoral

Hugo, Victor; technique of

—Les Misérables

—Notre-Dame de Paris; as multiple-focus; modulation and; use of parallels in

Hume, David

Hussein, Saddam

Hutchinson, Ann

hyperbolic modulation

 

Iliad, The (Homer)

image; deep-focus; engravings; illuminated manuscript; painting; pictorial text; style and

Imitation of Christ (Kempis, Thomas à)

Immoraliste, L’ (Gide, André)

Intolerance (Griffith, D. W.)

Incognita (Congreve, William)

individual; artifactual reading and; central to single-focus narrative; desire and; eccentricity of in single-focus narrative; interiority and; multiple-focus narrative and; naming and; reformers as

integration

I Vitelloni (Fellini, Federico)

 

Jacques le fataliste et son maître (Diderot, Denis)

Jakobson, Roman

James, Henry; free indirect style; literary criticism of; Portrait of a Lady; Turn of the Screw; use of by Lubbock; What Maisie Knew

Jerome; Life of Saint Hilarion

Joseph Andrews (Fielding, Henry)

Journey to the End of the Night (Céline, Louis-Ferdinand)

Judaism; dual-focus epic and; dual-focus pastoral and; law and

Julian, Rupert; Phantom of the Opera, The

 

Kael, Pauline

Kelly, Gene

Kellogg, Robert

Kempis, Thomas à; Imitation of Christ

Kenner, Hugh

Kierkegaard, Søren; Diary of a Seducer, The

King Kong (Cooper, Merian)

King Lear (Shakespeare, William)

Klee, Paul

Koestler, Arthur; Darkness at Noon

 

Laclos, Choderlos de; Les Liaisons dangereuses

Lafayette, Madame de

—Princesse de Clèves, La; as single-focus; quarrel of

—Zaïde

Lafcadio’s Adventures (Gide, André)

Lancelot (Troyes, Chrétien de)

land; in dual-focus epic; in dual-focus pastoral

Land of Cockaigne, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

landscape

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (Bruegel, Pieter)

Langland, William; Piers Plowman

La Rochefoucauld, François de

Last Judgement, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

law; biblical; dual-focus narrative and; individual conscience as

Lawrence; Women in Love

Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous)

Leonard, Robert Z.; New Moon

Lesage, Alain René; Gil Blas de Santillane; Le Diable boîteux

Lettres persanes (Montesquieu, Charles Louis de)

Lettres portugaises, Les (Guilleragues, Gabriel de)

Levant, Oscar

Levin, Richard

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Lewis, R. W. B.

Liaisons dangereuses, Les (Laclos, Choderlos de)

Life of Saint Anthony (Athanasius)

Life of Saint Benedict (Gregory the Great)

Life of Saint Cuthbert (Bede); as used by Pächt

Life of Saint Guthlac (Felix)

Life of Saint Hilarion (Jerome)

Life of Saint Martin (Sulpicius Severus)

Life of Saint Nicholas (Otloh)

Little Dorrit (Dickens, Charles)

Locke, John

Lonedale Operator, The (Griffith, D. W.)

Lonely Villa, The (Griffith, D. W.)

Longus

—Daphnis and Chloe; as dual-focus pastoral; gender difference in

Lubbock, Percy

Ludwig, Edward; Fighting Seabees, The

Lukács, Georg

Luther, Martin

 

Maatje, Frank

MacCaffrey, Isabel

Machiavelli, Niccolò; Prince, The

MacDonald, Jeanette

Madame Bovary (Flaubert, Gustave); as single-focus

Mad Meg (Bruegel, Pieter)

Malraux, André

—La condition humaine; as multiple-focus

Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett, Dashiell)

Mamoulian, Rouben; Silk Stockings

Mann, Thomas; Buddenbrooks

Man’s Fate. See Condition humaine, La

Mantegna, Andrea; San Zeno Altarpiece

mapping

Marivaux, Pierre; Paysan parvenu, Le; Vie de Marianne, La

marriage: as resolution for dual-focus pastoral

Marsh, Charles

Marshburn, Joseph H.

Martin, J. R.

Martin du Gard, Roger; Les Thibault

Martyrdom of Saint Perpetua and Saint Felicitas, The (Anonymous)

Massacre of the Innocents, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

McClellan, Scott

medieval narrative

Mémoires de Vidocq, Les (Vidocq, François)

memory

Mérimée, Prosper; Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Metamorphoses, or the Golden Ass (Apuleius, Lucius)

metaphoric modulation; as alternating following-pattern

metonymic modulation

Meyer, Nicholas; Day After, The

Middle Ages

Middlemarch (Eliot, George)

Millard, Albert

Miller, J. Hillis

Milton, John; Paradise Lost

Minnelli, Vincente; An American in Paris; Band Wagon, The; Gigi

Miracle de Théophile, Le (Rutebeuf)

Misérables, Les (Hugo, Victor)

modulations (see also hyperbolic, metaphoric, metonymic)

Moll Flanders (Defoe, Daniel)

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de; Lettres persanes

More, Sir Thomas

multiple-focus narrative; as anti-narrative; as social critique; carnivalesque and; causality and; character in; composed by dual-and single-focus narrative; conceptual text and; cubism and; definition of; empty center and; hem-naming and; images and; narration of; novel as; parallelism and; philosophical novel as; plot of; solicitation of critical reader and; transformational system of; typological approach and; unifying metaphor and; vectoring and; works of Bruegel as

“Murders in the Rue Morgue” (Poe, Edgar Allan)

Mystères de Paris, Les (Sue, Eugène); as multiple-focus

 

Nana (Zola, Émile)

narrative; activity; analysis of; anti-narrative; defined by Poetics; discontinuity and; drive; following and; history of; image as; material; multiple-focus as critique of; organization; proposal for new theory of; social organization and; traditional discourse on; unit; vehicle

narratology; action and; dependence on novel of; narrative pattern and; traditional criticism and

narrator; as voyeur; dual-focus; multiple-focus; novel and; single-focus; unreliable

Nativity (of Portinari Altarpiece) (Van der Goes, Hugo); as single-focus

naturalism

Nausée, La (Sartre, Jean-Paul)

Navarre, Marguerite de; L’Heptaméron

neo-Aristotelian approach to narrative

neo-classical approach to narrative

neo-realism

Nero

New Moon (Leonard, Robert Z.)

Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens, Charles)

Nicholas, Brian

Nostromo (Conrad, Joseph)

Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky, Feodor)

Notorious (Hitchcock, Alfred)

Notre-Dame de Paris (Hugo, Victor); as multiple-focus; modulation and; use of parallels in

novel; dependence of on reader; dual-focus; Gothic genre of; hyperbolic modulation and; linearity of; multiple-focus; narrator and; neo-Aristotelian debates and; non-classical form of; oriented mode of criticism; single-focus

 

Odyssey, The (Homer); as single-focus; in Poetics

Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)

Oklahoma! (Zinnemann, Fred)

Oliver Twist (Dickens, Charles)

Olrik, Axel

Onega, Susana

O’Neill, Patrick

opposition

Orlando Furioso (Ariosto, Lodovico)

Otloh; Life of Saint Nicholas

Ovid; Metamorphoses

 

Pächt, Otto

paradigmatic

Paradise Lost (Milton, John)

Pascal, Blaise

pastoral; as devalued form

Paul of Thebes

Paysan parvenu, Le (Marivaux, Pierre)

Peasant Dance (Bruegel, Pieter)

Peasant Wedding (Bruegel, Pieter)

Peasant Wedding Dance (Bruegel, Pieter)

Penitent Mary Magdalene (Bruegel, Pieter)

Penn, Arthur; Bonnie and Clyde

Perceval (Troyes, Chrétien de)

Père Goriot, Le (Balzac, Honoré de); as single-focus; dual-focus adaptations of; mapping of

perspective; history of

Peste, La (Camus, Albert)

Phantom of the Opera, The (Julian, Rupert)

Phelan, James

Piers Plowman (Langland, William)

Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan, John)

plot; as cause and effect; dual-focus; function of in traditional narratology; multiple-focus; single-focus

Poe, Edgar Allan; “Gold Bug, The,”; “Murders in the Rue Morgue; “Purloined Letter, The,”; “Thou Art the Man,”

Poem of the Cid (Anonymous)

Poetics (Aristotle)

poetry

point-of-view

polarity adjustment; and replacement

politics

Pollaiuolo

popular forms

Porte étroite, La (Gide, André)

Portinari Altarpiece (Van der Goes, Hugo)

Portrait of a Lady (James, Henry)

Pöschl, Viktor

Presley, Elvis

Pride and Prejudice (Austen, Jane); as single-focus; following-pattern of

Pride and Prejudice (BBC 1995)

Prince, Gerald

Prince, The (Machiavelli, Niccolò)

Princesse de Clèves, La (Lafayette, Madame de); as single-focus; quarrel of

Propp, Vladimir

protagonist; in multiple-focus; promethean; relationship of to narrator; relationship of to secondary characters

Protestant Reformation

Proust, Marcel

Prudentia (Bruegel, Pieter); hem-naming in; themes in

Prudentius; Psychomachia

psychostasis

Puritanism

“Purloined Letter, The” (Poe, Edgar Allan)

physics

 

Quem Quaeritis (Anonymous)

Queste del Saint Graal, La (Anonymous); as multiple-focus

 

Rabelais

Racine, Jean

Rain People, The (Coppola, Francis Ford)

Rapin, René

Ravaillac

Raymond, Gene

Raynal, Maurice

reader; character as; critically positioned by narrative; dual-focus and; hermeneutics and; identification with character of; multiple-focus and; narrative drive and; omniscience of; single-focus and; suspense of

reading

Recherche de l ’absolu, La (Balzac, Honoré de)

Red and the Black, The (Stendhal [Henri Beyle]); as single-focus; following-pattern of

Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane, Stephen); as single-focus; as war story; mapping of

religion; dual-focus narrative and; narrative and; single-focus narrative and; Song of Roland and

realism

Remarque, Erich Maria; All Quiet on the Western Front

Renaissance; carnivalesque and; multiple-focus narrative in; neo-Aristotelians and; paintings of; pastoral in

René (Chateaubriand, François René)

Renoir, Jean; Grand Illusion, The; Rules of the Game, The

Resurrection (Francesca, Piero della)

Reverdy, Pierre

Richardson, Brian

Richardson, Samuel

Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith

ritual

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe, Daniel)

Robson, Mark; Earthquake!

Romains, Jules; Les Hommes de bonne volonté

romance; Alexandrian; metaphoric modulation and; Romantic novel as; single-focus narrative and

Roman de Brut (Wace)

Roman de Flamenca (Anonymous)

Roman de Renart (Anonymous)

Romanesque

Roman expérimental, Le (Zola, Émile)

Rousset, Jean

Rules of the Game, The (Renoir, Jean)

Rutebeuf; Miracle de Théophile, Le

 

sacred texts

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint James and Hermogenes (Bruegel, Pieter)

Saint Jerome in the Desert (Bruegel, Pieter)

Saint-Point, Valentine de

Saint-Réal, César Richard de

saints’ lives; single-focus narrative and

Salammbô (Flaubert, Gustave)

San Zeno Altarpiece (Mantegna, Andrea)

Sarcey, Francisque

Sardou, Victorien

Sartre, Jean-Paul; La Nausée

Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, Steven)

Scaliger, Julius Caesar

Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne, Nathaniel); as single-focus; characterization of Hester Prynne in; eccentricity as organizing principle of; following-pattern of; gaze in; importance of Puritanism to; mapping of; metonymic modulation in

Scarron, Paul

Schapiro, Meyer

Schiller, Friedrich

Schoedsack, Ernest

Scholes, Robert

Schwartz, Daniel

Scott, Randolph

Scott, Sir Walter; Waverly

Scribe, Augustin

Scudéry, Madeleine de

Seaton, George; Airport

Sentiments sur les lettres (Du Plaisir)

Sermon of Saint John the Baptist, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Seven Cardinal Vices, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Seven Cardinal Virtues, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Severini, Gino

sexuality

Shakespeare, William; King Lear

Shelley, Mary

Sheppard, J. T.

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Ford, John)

Shklovsky, Victor

Silk Stockings (Mamoulian, Rouben)

Simenon, Georges; Le Commissaire Maigret

sin

single-focus narrative; artifactual reading in; bracketed tale in; Bildungsroman as; character in; Christianity and; compared to dual-focus narrative; compared to multiple-focus narrative; control of by protagonist; detective fiction as; economics and; gradational values in; image and; mirrored moments and; morality in; narration and; novel as; plot of; polysemy in; quest narrative as; romance as; saints’ lives as; text as; transformational approach and; typological approach and; vectoring and

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein

social organization

Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (Zola, Émile)

Song of Roland, The (Anonymous); as dual-focus epic; as war story; characterization through repetition in; enjambment in; following-pattern of; integration and; mapping of; metaphoric modulation of; plot summary of; polarity adjustment and; symmetry of; traditional interpretation of

Sopha, Le (Crébillon, Claude de)

Sophocles; Oedipus Rex

space; empty center and; fragmentation of; margins of pictorial; multiple-focus use of; narrative as

“Spanish Inn” stories

spatialization; conflict and; dual-focus pastoral and; film and; parallelism and; single-focus narrative and; synchronic

speculation

Spenser, Edmund

Spielberg, Steven; Saving Private Ryan

Spillane, Mickey

Sponde, Jean de

stasis

Stendhal [Henri Beyle]; Armance; Charterhouse of Parma, The

—Red and the Black, The; as single-focus; following-pattern of

Steppenwolf (Hesse, Hermann)

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stierle, Karlheinz

structuralism

Sue, Eugène

—Les Mystères de Paris; as multiple-focus

Suicide of Saul, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Sulpicius Severus; Life of Saint Martin

Summer (Bruegel, Pieter)

Svevo, Italo; La Coscienza di Zeno

Sweethearts (Van Dyke, W. S)

Swift, Jonathan; Battle of the Books; Gulliver’s Travels

symmetry; slot-logic and

Symphonie pastorale, La (Gide, André)

syntagma

 

Tacitus; History

Tasso, Torquato

Télémaque (Fénelon, François)

television

temporal development; cause-and-effect as; diachronic; images and; single-focus narrative and; traditional societies and

Temptation of Saint Anthony, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Terre, La (Zola, Émile)

Tess of the d ’Urbervilles (Hardy, Thomas)

text; dual-focus narrative as; single-focus narrative as

textual analysis

textual organization

Thackeray, William; History of Pendennis

theater

Them! (Douglas, Gordon)

Theogony (Hesiod)

Thérèse Raquin (Zola, Émile)

Thibault, Les (Martin Du Gard, Roger)

Thoreau, Henry David

“Thou Art the Man” (Poe, Edgar Allan)

Thucydides; History of the Peloponnesian War

Titanic (Cameron, James)

Todorov, Tzvetan

Toland, Gregg

Tolstoy, Leo; technique of; use of parallels by

—War and Peace; as multiple-focus; following-pattern of; mapping and; modulations of; single-focus reading of; use of parallels in

Tomachevski, Boris

Tom Jones (Fielding, Henry)

Toolen, Michael J.

Towering Inferno, The (Guillermin, John)

Tower of Babel, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

tragedy

transformational approach; mapping and; narrative cover terms and; transformational matrix; typological matrix

Tristan and Iseult (Anonymous)

Triumph of Death, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Troilus and Cressida (Chaucer, Geoffrey)

Trollope, Anthony

Troyes, Chrétien de; Cligés; Érec et Enide; Lancelot; Perceval

—Yvain; as single-focus

Truffaut, François; Bride Wore Black, The

Turgot, Michel Étienne

Turner, Paul

Turn of the Screw, The (James, Henry)

Twelve Flemish Proverbs (Bruegel, Pieter)

 

Uccello, Paolo

Uderzo, Albert

Uitti, Karl

Uncle Remus (Harris, Joel Chandler)

Unconquered (De Mille, Cecil B.)

Urban II

Urfé, Honoré d’; Astrée, L’

utopia

 

Vance, Eugene

Van der Goes, Hugo

—Nativity (of Portinari Altarpiece); as single-focus

Van der Weyden, Rogier; Deposition, The

Van Doetechum, Johannes and Lucas

Van Dyke, W. S.; Sweethearts

Van Eyck, Jan

vectoring; dual-focus narrative and; eye-leading and; multiple-focus narrative and; single-focus narrative and

Velie, Alan R.

Ventre de Paris, Le (Zola, Émile)

Vergil

—Aeneid, The; as dual-focus; plot of

Vervaeck, Bart

Vidocq, François; Les Mémoires de

Vidocq Vie de Marianne, La (Marivaux, Pierre)

Vie de Saint Alexis (Anonymous)

viewer; as decoder of allegory; contextual knowledge of

Vigny, Alfred de; Cinq-Mars

Viridiana (Buñuel, Luis)

Voltaire

Voyage of Brendan, The (Anonymous)

 

Wace; Roman de Brut

Wagonmaster (Ford, John)

War and Peace (Tolstoy, Leo); as multiple-focus; following-pattern of; mapping and; modulations of; single-focus reading of; use of parallels in

Watchtower, The

Waverly (Scott, Sir Walter)

Wayne, John

Werker, Alfred L.; Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The

West Side Story (Wise, Robert)

What Maisie Knew (James, Henry)

Whitman, Cedric

Wilder, Thornton; Bridge of San Luis Rey, The

wilderness: dual-focus narrative and; single-focus narrative and

Wilhelm Meister (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von)

William of Thierry

Wise, Robert; West Side Story

Witch of Malleghem, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Woman Taken in Adultery, The (Bruegel, Pieter)

Women in Love (Lawrence, D. H.)

Wood, Grant

Wyler, William; Best Years of Our Lives, The

 

Xenophon; An Ephesian Tale

 

Yvain (Troyes, Chrétien de); as single-focus

Young, Karl

 

Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, Michelangelo)

Zaïde (Lafayette, Madame de)

Zinnemann, Fred; Oklahoma!

Zola, Émile; bodily metaphors in works of; naturalism, use of

—Assommoir, L’; quarrel of

—Faute de l ’abbé Mouret, La

—Germinal

—Nana

—Roman expérimental, Le

—Son excellence Eugène Rougon

—Terre, La

—Thérèse Raquin

—Ventre de Paris, Le