Abraham (biblical figure), 3, 20–28, 31–32, 48–49, 298, 369–370, 379–380, 383, 385n6

accountability, 48, 56, 287, 298

action(s), 2–3, 6, 45, 51, 54, 57, 60, 92, 136, 145n13, 156, 168, 253, 279, 302n2, 305, 317–319, 328, 333, 380–381, 383

Adam (biblical figure), 2, 25

agency, 60, 93, 307, 313–315, 328, 335, 345, 350, 360, 363

agent, 3, 43–44, 50, 59, 215, 305, 309, 323n9, 347–348, 354

Allegories of Reading,, 265, 274–276, 278, 283n12, 283n15

allegory, 193n2, 273–275, 277, 280, 317

allusion, 173–192, 193nn1–4, 194nn5–6, 194n8, 195nn12–13, 195n15, 196n19

Althusser, Louis, 38

Amis, Martin, 12, 307–321, 322n4, 322n6, 322n8, 323n10, 323n14

Anglo-Indian, 10, 125–128, 137, 140, 142–143, 144n5, 145n14

Aporia, 25, 30–31, 33, 48–49, 273, 275– 277, 279–280, 299, 317, 323n11

Arendt, Hannah, 6, 375

Aristotle, 2, 178, 180, 194n6

Attridge, Derek, 300, 302n1, 362

Augustine, Saint, 11, 168, 174

Austen, Jane, 11, 100, 149–150, 152, 155–156, 160–164, 166–168

Austin, J. L., 262–264, 266–269, 271–272, 276, 282nn1–3, 282n5

At Swim-Two-Birds, 210–211, 221–222, 224, 226–235, 236n2, 238n15

Banville, John, 11, 203, 213–214, 420

Barry, Sebastian, 11, 201, 203, 213

Barthes, Roland, 112, 236n2, 312–313

Bataille, George, 56, 412n3

Beckett, Samuel, 202, 205, 207, 209–210, 222–223, 238n10

Belsey, Catherine, 122

Bible, 17–18, 26–27, 166, 178, 184, 194n6, 370

Bildungsroman, 11, 150, 155, 169

binary, 37, 42, 45, 48, 250, 309, 340

blame, 20, 48, 187, 310, 331, 342n2

Borribles, The, 376–377

Borges, Jorge Luis, 203–204, 206

Boyhood, 11, 345–363

Bourdieu, Pierre, 397, 400, 413n8

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 96, 102

Brooke, Lady Sylvia Leonora, 128, 138–141

Brontë Charlotte, 229, 240

Bush, George W., 40, 45–48, 51, 58–61, 63

Butler, Judith, 129, 146, 409

Butler, Marilyn, 150, 170, 259n4, 260

canto, 189–191, 196n21

Castle Rackrent, 10, 243–258