if i had to name the themes i encounter most often in literature, or the ones i tend to search for, i would describe them as this:
-empire and masculinity
ex: Absalom Absalom!, Arthuriana, Heart of Darkness
-the role of the prince (coming into empire)
ex: The Henriad, Infinite Jest, Star Wars
-the search for home, homesickness, the fantasy of a homeland
ex: Wizard of Oz, My Own Private Idaho
relevant text: Two Essays About Finding Home in The Wizard of Oz
-nothingness and void
ex: The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist, Poem with No Children In It , Where is everybody?, Proverbs from the void
-prehistory
ex: The Track in the Wilderness
-the (presumably) unbridgeable gap between each others minds and the inability of words to fully express thoughts, the (presumed) impossibility of two people ever fully experiencing something in the same way
ex: Moby Dick, The Other Tiger
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