Keywords

Vocabulary: Environment
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1728 Wilderness-civilized boundary Place
1752 Sunday Time of Year

This should probably go under day of the week in col. 2, but it does not exist. My thinking is that there might be days that are more pronounced in Faulkner, notably the Sabbath and Wednesday prayer. The specific example is from Monk.

1756 Filling Station Public
1757 Saturday Time of Year
1760 Classroom Place
1764 June Time of Year
1767 Capital Place
1768 Capitol Place
1769 Penitentiary Place
1777 Gas station Place
1784 Heat Weather
1786 Sun Weather
1796 Dilapidation Domestic Space
1800 Voices Auditory
1813 Landmark Natural

This term can be used for natural phenomena used as a landmark. (Added for the Gum Tree -- capitalized in the text -- used in "Lion" and related texts like "The Bear.")

1818 Grave Place
1822 Spring Natural
Vocabulary: Actions
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1729 Civic discussion Interaction, Social
1736 Eating supper Bodily
1738 Random Movement
1742 Hushing Verbal
1743 Hungering Bodily
1749 Swimming Movement
1750 Threatening Violent
1753 Grave-digging or -violating Moral

This is any time when someone is either digging a grave, or trying to disinter a body in a grave. I'm thinking of Mink moving Houston's body in The Hamlet and the Hound, but also Monk trying to dig up his grandmother in Monk.

1754 Charity Interaction, Social

Here charity is understood as a communal act and is therefore a social interaction. JB

1755 Speech Verbal

Any time someone give a speech, in this case Monk. JB

1758 Arraign Legal
1763 Train Movement
1766 Pardon Legal
1770 Knitting Domestic
1781 Refusal Emotional
1782 Banishment Verbal
1785 Indecision Emotional
1801 Apology Verbal
1811 Realization Mental
1815 Frustration Emotional
1816 Hammering Physical
1817 Squirrel hunting Hunting
1819 Repair Physical
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1730 America and opportunity Cultural Identity
1732 As source of money Government
1733 US Post Office Government
1734 US Bureau of Indian Affairs Government
1735 Federal laws and regulations Government
1737 Secrecy Government
1744 Vest Clothes
1745 Alienating Law

Any time the legal system alienates a person caught up in it, whether the person is guilty or not. The direct example here is Monk, but Mink Snopes is equally alienated, because he does not understand how the system works and suffers more dire consequences because of it.

1746 Gambling Crime
1747 Vagrancy Crime
1748 Jury Law
1759 Rural school Education
1761 Illiteracy Education
1762 Miscarriage of justice Law
1765 Pneumonia Health and Illness
1771 Pardon Law
1772 Eyewitness Law
1775 Corruption Government
1776 Clue Law
1778 Alibi Law
1780 Sin Religion
1787 Handbag Clothes
1791 Traits Gender

Indicates when a particular quality is attributed to a character on the basis of their gender, such as when Miss Belle Worsham is described as possessing "some old, timeless, female affinity for blood and grief" (p. 261) in "Go Down, Moses." BR

1793 Advertising Mass Media
1794 Republicanism Politics
1802 Integration Race
1808 Scorched-earth policy War

This refers specifically to the events describing the destruction of Southern plantations, cities, railroads, etc., by Union forces during the Civil War. Frequently the narratives associate these actions directly with "Sherman," a hated name in Faulkner's South.

1826 Beaver hat Clothes
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1731 Ledger Texts
1739 Chickens/roosters Animals
1740 Stomach/belly Body
1741 Separation Absence/Loss
1774 Motivation Psychological
1779 Divine plan Chaos/Order
1783 Alias Naming
1788 Corpse Death
1789 Expenses Money
1790 Coffin Death
1797 Pipe Objects
1803 Monument Objects
1806 Reminiscence Story-telling
1807 Manipulation Psychological
1809 Squirrel Animals
1810 Gun Objects
1812 Living in the present Time

Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past.

1814 Recent past Past

For events acknowledging recent occurrences that may or may not affect the present. (Added for end of "Lion," with Boon oblivious to events in the recent past while the narrator is thinking about them.)

1820 Mosquitoes Animals
1823 Basket Objects
1824 Wreath Objects
1825 Ballot Box Objects
1827 Pokeberry juice Objects
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1751 Delayed revelation Narrative

Any time in a narrative where something happens, but the exact nature of the event is not revealed till some time later. Faulkner uses this technique quite often. The example here is from Monk, where Monk had apparently been living in a house for several months, but the town does not find out about it until months later.

1792 Square brackets Typography/Orthography
1795 Roman senator Allusion, Historical
1798 Call and response Language
1804 Imitation Diction

When a character imitates or approximates the dialect of another, whose dialect they themselves do not use. BR

1805 Imagined conversation Narrative

When a narrator retrospectively imagines what they could have or wished they had said in a particular conversation. BR

1821 Bird Figures of Speech
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1773 Police-arrestee Institutional
1799 Brother-sister Familial

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