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- Abani, Chris; There Are No Names for Red
- Acker, Kathy
- Alighieri, Dante, Inferno
- Alpers, Paul
- Amfreville, Marc
- Amos and Andy (radio and television serial)
- The Andy Griffith Show (television serial)
- Aristophanes
- Aristotle
- Ashcroft, John
- Asimov, Isaac
- Athenaus of Naucratis; Deipnosophistae
- Auster, Paul
- Austin, J. L.
- Baker, Houston
- Bakhtin, Mikhail
- Baldwin, James
- Barth, John
- Barthelme, Donald
- Barthes, Roland; as character in Glyph; parody of in Erasure; reference to in Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
- Bauer, Sylvie
- Beatty, Paul; The Sellout
- Beckham, Barry, Runner Mack
- Bell, Madison Smartt
- Bennett, William
- Berben-Masi, Jacqueline
- Beverly Hills 90210 (television serial)
- Birkerts, Sven
- Birnbaum, Robert
- Black Arts Movement
- Blake, William
- Blanchard, W. Scott
- Blazing Saddles (film)
- Bonnemère, Yves
- Booker, M. Keith
- Bozo the Clown
- Breaking Bad (television serial)
- Burton, Robert
- Bush, George W.
- Butler, Samuel
- Callaloo (journal)
- Campbell, Joseph
- Cannon, Uzzie
- Cassill, R. V.
- Cassuto, Leonard
- Cervantes, Miguel de; Don Quixote
- Chappelle, Dave
- Chernyshevsky, Nikolai
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- Coen, Joel and Ethan. Films: Fargo; No Country for Old Men
- Coetzee, J. M.
- Cooper, Gary
- Coover, Robert; The Public Burning
- Custer, George Armstrong, as character in God’s Country
- Page 182 →David, Larry
- Delany, Samuel R., Dhalgren
- Delgado, Richard
- Déon, Marguerite
- Derrida, Jacques
- Dickson-Carr, Darryl
- Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
- Dittman, Jonathan
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Crime and Punishment
- Eastwood, Clint, Unforgiven
- Eaton, Kimberly
- Ebersole, Frank
- Ellison, Harlan, A Boy and His Dog
- Ellison, Ralph; Invisible Man
- Ellroy, James
- Erasmus
- Estleman, Loren D.
- Everett, Percival: and the role of the author; and categorization of his works; and fictional self-representation; and sense/nonsense; and formal philosophy; and painting; and publishing with independent presses; and his relationship to the reader; and religion—Works: Abstraktion und Einfühlung; “Alluvial Deposits”; American Desert; “The Appropriation of Cultures”; Assumption; “Between Here and There”; Big Picture; The Body of Martin Aguilera; “Confluence”; Cutting Lisa; damned if i do; Erasure; “The Fix”; For Her Dark Skin; Frenzy; “F/V”; Glyph; God’s Country; Grand Canyon, Inc.; Half an Inch of Water; A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as Told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid; I Am Not Sidney Poitier; “Meiosis”; The One That Got Away; Percival Everett by Virgil Russell; re: f (gesture); “Rose Nose”; So Much Blue; Suder; Swimming Swimmers Swimming; There Are No Names for Red; Trout’s Lie; Walk Me to the Distance; “Warm and Nicely Buried”; The Water Cure; Watershed; The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair; “Why I’m from Texas”; Wounded; Zulus
- Page 183 →Feith, Michel
- Félix, Brigitte
- Fett, Sebastian
- Flaubert, Gustave, Bouvard and Pécuchet
- Follow Your Heart (television movie)
- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de
- Ford, John
- Frege’s puzzle
- Freud, Sigmund
- Frye, Northrop
- Gay, Marie-Agnès
- Gilliam, Terry, Lost in La Mancha
- Gnosticism
- George, Nelson
- Gorgias
- Graywolf Press
- Gretlund, Jan Nordby
- Grey, Zane
- Griffin, Dustin
- Griffin, Sarah Mantilla
- Handley, William
- Harlem Renaissance
- Hemingway, Ernest; “Big Two-Hearted River”
- Hermes Trismegistus
- High Noon (film)
- Himes, Chester
- Hogue, W. Lawrence
- Horatian satire
- Hurston, Zora Neale; Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Hutcheon, Linda
- Job, Book of
- Johns, Gillian
- Johnson, Craig
- Johnson, Jack
- Johnson, Michael
- Jones, Daryl
- Jones, Jim
- Joyce, James; Finnegans Wake
- Julien, Claude
- Juvenalian satire
- Kandinsky, Wassily
- Kaplan, Carter
- Kharpertian, Theodore
- Kincaid, James R.
- Kirk, Eugene P.
- Klee, Paul
- Koresh, David
- Krauth, Leland
- Kristeva, Julia
- Lacan, Jacques
- Larkin, Lesley
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Lilies of the Field (film)
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Longmire (television serial)
- Lovecraft, H. P.
- Lucian; Menippus, or the Descent into Hades
- Magritte, René, The Treachery of Images
- Maniez, Claire
- Maugham, W. Somerset, Of Human Bondage
- McCarthy, Cormac, No Country for Old Men
- McConkey-Pirie, Caitlin
- McCrae, Fiona
- McMillan, Terry
- McVeigh, Stephen
- Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick
- Menippean satire; definitions of; digression as trait of; formal multiplicity as trait of; historical development of; grotesque as trait of; linguistic/philosophical multiplicity as trait of; madness as trait of; and the mythology of the American West; thematic heterogeneity as trait of; tonal multiplicity as trait of; and Wittgenstein. See also satire
- Page 184 →Menippus of Gadara
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
- metafiction/metanarrative
- Millet, Lydia
- Mitchell, Keith
- Mookerjee, Robin
- Moore, G. E.
- Morgan, Danielle Fuentes
- Morrison, Toni, Song of Solomon
- Mosley, Walter
- Mullins, Matthew
- Munby, Jonathan
- Murphy, Eddie
- Musgrave David
- Muyumba, Walton
- Native Americans; Arapahoe (Wind River Reservation); Plata (fictional); Shoshone (Wind River Reservation); Sioux (Lakota);
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- O’Brien, Flann (Brian O’Nolan)
- ordinary language philosophy
- Our American Cousin (play)
- Pacquet-Deyris, Anne-Marie
- Palahniuk, Chuck, Fight Club
- Parker, Charlie
- parody; of literary theory; of philosophy; of the Western
- Picasso, Pablo, Guernica
- Plato
- Poe, Edgar Allan, “The Business Man”
- Poitier, Sidney; fictional depiction of
- Popeye (cartoon character)
- Porter, Lavelle
- post-soul
- Powell, Bud, as character in Suder
- Protestant work ethic
- Pryor, Richard
- Pynchon, Thomas; The Crying of Lot; Gravity’s Rainbow
- quest narratives
- Rabelais, François
- race: and labeling of Everett’s work; as theme in Everett’s fiction
- Ramsey, William
- Reed, Ishmael
- Relihan, Jodi
- Rochberg, Francesca
- Roof, Judith
- Rossari, Marco
- Roth, Philip
- Rushdie, Salman, Midnight’s Children
- Russell, Bertrand
- Russett, Margaret
- Rutter, Emily
- Sammarcelli, Françoise
- satire; degenerative/subversive form of. See also Menippean satire
- Sayles, John. Films: Lone Star
- Schmidt, Christian
- Schur, Richard
- Searchers, The (film)
- Seinfeld, Jerry
- Senna, Danzy
- Shepard, Matthew
- Socrates
- Page 185 →South, the; and Everett’s relationship to
- South Carolina; and Everett’s relationship to
- Stein, Gertrude
- Sterne, Laurence
- Stewart, Anthony
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Styron, William
- Swift, Jonathan; Gulliver’s Travels; A Tale of a Tub
- Taft, William Howard
- They Died with Their Boots On (film)
- Thomas, Clarence
- Thurmond, Strom; fictional representation of
- Tissut, Anne-Laure
- Trump, Donald
- Turner, Nat
- Turner, Ted; fictional depiction of
- Twain, Mark; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Ulff, Clément-Alexandre
- Vander, Robin G.
- Virgil
- Voltaire, Candide
- Von Mossner, Alexa Weik
- Walker, Alice; The Color Purple
- Wallace, David Foster; Infinite Jest
- Wayne, John
- Weeds (television serial)
- Weinbrot, Howard
- Weisenburger, Steven
- Weixlmann, Joe
- Welsh, Irvine, Trainspotting
- West, the: and Everett’s identification with; as fictional setting; and the frontier myth
- Westworld (film and television serial)
- Whitehead, Colson, Sag Harbor
- Willard, Thomas
- Willis, Sharon
- Winfrey, Oprah
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig; as fictional character; and synoptic analysis
- Worringer, Wilhelm
- Wounded Knee incident; fictional depiction in Watershed
- Wright, Richard, Native Son
- Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi (fictional place)
- Young, Kevin, The Grey Album
- Yu, Charles
- Zimmer, Dirk