Themes and Motifs: Naming Place name

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"A Name for the City", 202 (Event)
Environment: Place›Frontier
Actions: Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
"A Name for the City", 202 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic dispute
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Progress›Mail delivery
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
"Appendix: Compson", 329 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Government›Governor | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Home | Naming›Place name | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Geographical›Scotland | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Culloden Moor
Requiem for a Nun, 22 (Event)
Environment: Place›Stable | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute | Naming›Named for historical figure | Naming›Place name
Relationships: Civic›Postal carrier-community | Familial›Mother-son
Requiem for a Nun, 25 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Physical›Building | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 7 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Requiem for a Nun, 7 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Naming›Renaming
Requiem for a Nun, 85 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Violence›Dueling
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Honor | Naming›Place name
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Hinds, General Thomas | Allusion, Historical›Jackson, Andrew
The Mansion, 421 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Founding fathers | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›First settlers arrive
The Reivers , 18 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Time›Continuity
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
The Reivers , 25 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Time›Continuity
The Reivers , 25 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations | Sexuality›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Naming›Place name
The Reivers , 25 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
The Reivers , 26 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Objects›Car