The Bookworm's Alphabet Game.

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By Frederik Pohl

I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov.

JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY: The term refers to the theories of the Swiss psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). Jung was a student of Freud, but he rejected Freud's ideas of infantile sexuality (i.e., the Oedipal Complex, wish fulfillment, thanatos, etc.) and he held that Freud's psychoanalytic process was too simple, too concrete, and too focused on the individual child's development rather than the collective development of cultures as a whole. Working with the insights from anthropological studies like J. G. Frazer's The Golden Bough (1890-1915), Jung developed an alternative concept called the collective unconscious, a shared collection of transcultural images and symbols known as archetypes that would resonate powerfully within the human psyche. The study of how Jungian psychology relates to literature is called archetypal criticism. Note that the <J> is pronounced like a /y/ in Jung's name. For more information, see archetype.

See also: Man And His Symbols

Karamazov, The Brothers.

Literature

What would this game be without it....

Literature is literally "an acquaintance with letters", as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts or works of art, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In much, if not all of the world, texts can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, other forms of oral poetry, and the folktale. The word "literature" as a common noun can refer to any form of writing, such as essays; "Literature" as a proper noun refers to a whole body of literary work.

The history of literature begins with the history of writing, in the Bronze Age of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, although the oldest literary texts date to a full millennium after the invention of writing, to the late 3rd millennium BC. The earliest literary authors known by name are Ptahhotep and Enheduanna, dating to ca. the 24th and 23rd centuries BC, respectively.

McMurtry, Larry

Necronomicon, the most seeked-after nonexistent book.

ORA:CLE by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.

[The] Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come by John Bunyan

QB-VII



By Leon Uris

Now let's turn self-referential: ROMAN ALPHABET.

For Self Referential stuff...... read Douglas R. Hofstadter

Theodore Roszak.

Upton Sinclair



This is from today's Writer's Almanac Sept. 20:

Frankenstein.

The reason why I include it under the V is that the title refers to the doctor, Victor Frankenstein, not to the monster, which is unnamed in the book.

Watership Down by Richard Adams.