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White Oleander References

Ch. 1

p.   8    Anne Sexton

p. 11   Chekhov

p. 12   Pan

p. 14   Zen

Ch. 2

p. 18   Fred Astair

p. 18   Brothers Grim

p. 18   Don Quixote

p. 20   Medea

p. 20   Rosetta Stone

p. 20   Dead Sea (scrolls)

p. 24   haiku (find an example)

Ch. 3

p. 33   Sodom

p. 42   Greek chorus

Ch.  4

p. 45   Persephone

Ch. 5

p. 58   Twilight of the Gods

            World Tree

            Olympus

            Ariadne and Bacchus

            rape of Danae

            Shiva, Pavarti

            Kali

            Pele

p. 60   Lorelei

            Odysseus (lashed to the mast)

p. 63   T.S. Eliot

            Dylan Thomas

Ch. 6

p. 73               Stephan Dedalus and Portrait of the Artist

p. 75               Milton and Paradise Lost

Ch. 7

p. 85               Athena

Ch. 8

p. 105             “snake in the garden”

Ch. 9

p. 114             Dali[s]

p. 118            “Ode to Joy”

Ch. 10

p. 122             “Gaugain syphilitic nightmare”

p. 127             Achilles                                  

Ch. 12

p. 153             “Free Huey” (Newton)

p. 155            Germaine Greer– The Female Eunuch

                        Leaves of Grass

p. 161             “Grace Kelly style”

                        Coltrane “Naima”

p. 163             “rich as Croesus”

Ch. 13

p. 169            Ovid

                        Aristophanes

p. 170             Icarus

p. 171            Van Gogh

Ch. 14

p. 177             Yeats “The Second Coming”–find it!

p. 180             Billie Holiday

p. 182             The Victorian Age

Ch. 16

p.  208            Durer rabbit

p.  211            Debussy

Ch. 17

p.  226—227  Picasso

p.  230            Kandinsky

 Cezanne

                         Van Gogh

                         Mughal

p.  239            Leonard Cohen “The Sisters of Mercy”

                         Pandora

p.  241            Boris Godunov

Ch.  18

p.  241            Valhalla

p.  251            Find play/character by Shakespeare where this line appears

Ch. 19

p. 257             The Great War

                         Ypres

Ch. 20

p.  272            Circe

p.  273            Rodan

p.  274            Swan Lake

p.  275            It’s a Wonderful Life

p.  276            Myrna Loy

                         Thin Man

p.  277            “Ave Maria”

p.  278            Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

                         Madame Butterfly

                         Aida

Ch. 21

p.  292            “seven mortal coils”

p.  293            “rabbit hole” reference—Where is it from?  What does it imply?

Ch. 23

p.  313            “Workers of the world, arise”

                         Matisse

                         Renoir

p.  317            My Antonia

                         Anais Nin

                         Henry Miller

                         Thomas Mann

                         Isherwood

                         Huxley

                         Ladders to Fire

                         House of Incest

Ch. 24

p.  323            Kublai Khan

Ch. 25

p.  340              Cerberus

                          Inferno

Ch. 26                

p.  346            Toulouse-Lautrec

                         quanta

p.  347            Joyce (a last name)

Ch. 27

p. 361             Monkey King

                         Chiron

                         Isis

                         Medusa

                         Minotaur

                         Daedalus

p.  366            phoenix

p.  372            Salome

Ch.  28

p.  375            Warhol

p.  378            Rothko

                         Casals

p.  379            Blakean figures

Ch.  29

p.  393            Bobby Fischer

p.  395            Shiva

Ch. 30

p.  399            Inquisition

p.  400            Francis Bacon

p.  407            Raphael

p.  408            Siegfried

Ch.  31

p.  427            Joseph Brodsky

Ch.  32

p. 434             Goethe

                         Schiller

                         Rilke

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