Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
2331 Alienation Community
2332 Personality change Character
2333 Hammer Objects
2334 Integrity Character
2337 Doom Recurring Tropes
2340 Chamber pot Objects
2342 Keys Objects
2343 Dead time Recurring Tropes
2353 Innocence Past
2358 Sophistication Character
2359 Barbarism Character
2360 Unconscious Psychological
2366 Imitation Recurring Tropes
2368 Provincialism Character
2369 Soul / Spirit Supernatural
2373 Telepathy Supernatural
2377 Objet d'art Art
2378 Meaninglessness Meaning
2379 Ants Animals
2382 Phantom Supernatural
2383 Secret Recurring Tropes
2384 Devotion Values
2385 Spell Supernatural
2389 Naivety Character
2398 Eternal feminine Recurring Tropes
2400 Decorum Values
2402 Evolution Philosophical
2403 Gambler Character
2406 Providence Values
2407 Inherited traits Character
2408 Faith Morals
2411 Promotional Naming
2416 Restoring order Chaos/Order
2418 Yoknapatawpha founders Past
2421 Indian Removal Exile
2427 Interpretation of symbol Meaning
2429 Preserving order Community
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
2335 Looting Crime
2338 Birthright Class
2347 African American Religion

Religion with regard to either African-Americans or the African-American community. The particular example here is of Lucius Priest in the The Reivers who imagines a "Negro" sermonizing about a moral decision. R 61.8. JB

2348 Grist mill Agriculture

This is for any general discussion of grist mills as a farm implement. JB

2362 Cloak Clothes
2363 Gown Clothes
2364 Cross-dress Gender
2388 Puritan Cultural Identity
2395 Dueling Ritual
2396 Dueling Violence
2401 White race Race
2409 White-Indian commerce Economy
2410 And progress Law
2412 Civic boosterism Economy
2413 Frontier outlawry History
2414 Militia muster Government
2415 Drunken brawling Violence
2419 Local origins Slavery
2420 Cotton planting Economy
2423 American Revolution History
2424 War of 1812 History
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
2336 Moth Figures of Speech
2341 Vampire Allusion, Literary
2345 Thunderclap Figures of Speech
2352 Satan Allusion, Biblical
2354 Scythian Allusion, Historical
2357 Roman consul Allusion, Historical
2365 Arabian Nights Allusion, Literary
2367 Talisman Figures of Speech
2370 Bloom Figures of Speech
2371 Projection Metafictional
2372 Memphis, Tennessee Allusion, Geographical
2374 Desert island Figures of Speech
2375 New Orleans, Louisiana Allusion, Geographical
2376 Signs Metafictional
2380 Lothario Allusion, Literary
2387 Don Juan Allusion, Literary
2390 God / Jehovah Allusion, Biblical
2391 Saint Allusion, Biblical
2392 Planting Figures of Speech
2393 Photography Figures of Speech
2397 Medical / Surgical Figures of Speech
2404 Bull Run Allusion, Historical
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
2339 Aunt-niece Familial
2361 Male-male attraction Friendship
2417 Tutor-student Intergenerational
Vocabulary: Environment
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
2344 Christmas Eve Time of Year
2351 Carriage house Domestic Space
2399 Brothel / Bordello Place
2430 Hotel kitchen Place
Vocabulary: Actions
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
2346 Ambivalence Emotional
2349 Unaware Mental
2350 Telegraph Communication
2355 Seducing Interaction, Private
2356 Detachment Emotional
2381 Suspicion Emotional
2386 Seduction Emotional
2394 Corrupting Moral
2405 Enlistment Military
2422 Social protest Interaction, Social
2425 By sound Communication
2426 Swearing Communication
2428 Unsent message Communication

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