Keywords

Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1265 France Allusion, Geographical
5380 Francesca Allusion, Literary
5434 Franco, Francisco Allusion, Historical
2849 Free indirect discourse Narrative
2780 French Language
3677 French Lick, Indiana Allusion, Geographical
5549 Freud, Sigmund Allusion, Historical
1315 Freudian Symbolism
2956 Gaines's Mill Allusion, Geographical
3767 Galahad Allusion, Literary
3343 Galilee Allusion, Geographical
4348 Gambling imagery Figures of Speech
4351 Gaps Narrative
3285 Garden of Eden Allusion, Biblical
3410 Garibaldi, Giuseppe Allusion, Historical
5054 General Compson's military record Recurring Episodes
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1909 Fratricide Crime
5316 Fraud Crime

This type of fraud is distinct from action: moral :: fraud in the sense that there are legal consequences. The specific example here is from "Death Drag" where Ginsfarb has a plane that is unlicensed and purchased a license from another plane that was allowed to fly thereby "compound[ing] another felony" (194). JHB

4453 Free Will Religion
315 Freedom Slavery
5188 French Nationality
4908 French nobility Class
2899 Friendly interaction Race

Any time in the text during which different races meet in the same space and have a friendly, uncharged interaction. The specific example is the horse race in The Reivers.

2000 Frock coat Clothes
3018 Frontier justice Law
2413 Frontier outlawry History
1694 Frontier times Progress
1708 Frontier to civilization Progress
1337 Frustration Sexuality
283 Fugitive Slavery
1632 Funeral Ritual
2199 Funeral arrangements Ritual
3601 Fur coat / suit Clothes
5335 Furnish bill Agriculture
3225 G.I. Bill Education
3743 Galley slave Slavery
4270 Gallic Ethnicity
577 Gambling Economy
1746 Gambling Crime
4066 Garment female Clothes
2826 Garter Clothes
3562 Gastrointestinal discomfort Health and Illness
240 Gender (First level term)
2933 Gendered Violence

A violent action in which the gender dynamic plays a salient feature. The specific example is Boon hitting Miss Corrie in The Reivers. JB

2042 Genealogy Race

Any time a character's possible racial ancestries is germane to the text. J. Burgers

4973 Generation gap Age
590 Generational reform Government
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4809 Fratricide Familial
477 Friendship (First level term)
4961 Gang Social
4126 Genealogy Familial
2434 Generational succession Ancestral
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4485 Fraud Moral
2162 Freeing Physical
1682 Frontier life Interaction, Social
2231 Frugality Economic
1815 Frustration Emotional
1182 Fury Emotional
1339 Gaining weight Bodily
937 Gambling Play
900 Gardening Work
2789 Gardening Physical
3383 Garrulousness Verbal

Created for Gavin Stevens--LW

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1006 Freedom Philosophical
3093 Freedom from it Past
5559 Freedom of choice Philosophical
3625 French noble names Naming
1080 Frogs Animals
1932 Frozen / Static Time
931 Funeral Death
3717 Funeral pyre / cremation Death
645 Furniture Objects
374 Futility (First level term)
2051 Future Time
844 Future Death
2403 Gambler Character
2581 Gamecock Animals
2537 Gasoline Objects

Any time gasoline and fuel is mentioned as an object, not with regard to smell. It occurs a number of times in The Reivers as a fetishistic object of modernity. JB

5595 Gathering Community
1032 Gaze Recurring Tropes
3261 Geese Animals
5114 Gendered Determinism
5382 Generous Character
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
554 Frenchman's Bend Place
2040 Friday Time of Year
3259 Frogs Auditory
1696 Frontier Place
2115 Frost Weather
3949 Full moon Atmospheric
1472 Gallery Domestic Space
1473 Gallop Auditory
830 Gallows Place
5258 Gambling house Place
2281 Garage Domestic Space

Any structure used for the storage of a motor vehicle. In The Reivers this is continuously referred to as the "carriage house", but since it is now an automobile that it houses, I am calling it a garage. This might be more useful for scholars than carriage house. JB

1475 Garden Domestic Space
1777 Gas station Place
2063 Gasoline Olfactory
4667 Gate Place
1019 Gate Domestic Space
654 Gender stereotype Domestic Space

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