Keywords

Vocabulary: Environment
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
607 Decay Olfactory
611 Summer Time of Year
614 Midnight Time of Day
636 Pre-dawn Time of Day
654 Gender stereotype Domestic Space
655 Crime scene Place
687 Night Time of Day
688 Supper table Domestic Space
691 Road Public
692 Corn-planting time (First level term)
693 Corn planting time Time of Year
695 Cottonfield Place
698 Dawn Time of Day
699 Delta Natural
702 Rain Weather
706 Supper Time of Day
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
608 Simile Figures of Speech
613 Indeterminacy Narrative
622 Western vernacular Diction
627 Water Figures of Speech
641 Neologism Style
666 Shadow Figures of Speech
668 Temporal projection Narrative

When the narrative gets ahead of itself, for example in "Race at Morning" Event 305.1 begins "Then we seen him for the first time," but that does not actually happen until two Events later, 305.3, "and then suddenly . . . the buck hisself" (305). It doesn't matter whether the narrative is looking forward a dozen sentences or a hundred pages, whenever it explicitly anticipates something that it won't actually depict until a later Event, it's "Temporal projection." SR

679 Mask Figures of Speech
682 Simile-mask Figures of Speech
690 African American vernacular dialect Diction
705 Racist term Diction
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
609 Door Recurring Tropes
617 Absence as disguise Absence/Loss

This was created to note Flem Snopes' calculated absence during the horse auction, the way he has orchestrated it from behind the scene. I'm not sure this occurs with anyone but Flem, but it occurs multiple times in his case. SR

618 Dogs Animals
626 African-American Community
629 Face Body
631 Appearance-plain Body
633 Watch Time
640 Remembering passim Memory
642 Junk Objects
645 Furniture Objects
646 Clock Objects
647 Innocence Character
653 Thinness Body
661 Mules Animals
669 Wedding license Objects
670 Car Objects
676 Social life Community
680 Blood Body
683 Independence Values
684 Courage Values
694 Whippoorwills Animals
707 Renewal Absence/Loss
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
610 Female Intergenerational
620 Sibling Familial
625 Abusive Marital
628 Elopement Marital
656 Mother-son Familial
664 Snobbery Social
674 Husband-wife Marital
675 Employer-employee Hierarchical
678 Child as authority Hierarchical
700 Rivalry Commercial
Vocabulary: Actions
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
612 Elopement Interaction, Social
619 Shopping Interaction, Social
623 Prohibiting Moral

Here in the general sense of interdiction, forbidding, proscribing - rather than "prohibition," i.e. outlawing alcohol. JW

630 Washing clothes Physical
632 Command Verbal
634 Auction Interaction, Social
637 Taunt Verbal
648 Legal surrender Moral
649 Confession Moral
651 Crying Bodily
657 Peer group Interaction, Social
658 Washing clothes Work
659 Hitting Violent
663 Sleeping Bodily
671 Gossip Verbal
672 Entry Violent
677 Nurturing Emotional
685 Impounding Economic
686 Paying Economic
689 Looking Perceptual
696 Share-cropping|Tenantry Economic

There are significant differences between "share-cropping" and "tenant farming" in reality. "Tenants" typically furnished their own farming tools and livestock, and had at least a measure of control over what crops they planted on land they rented from a landlord; "share-croppers" typically only contributed their own labor, with the landlord dictating what they would raise and providing the animals and tools they used. But in his fiction Faulkner does not maintain this distinction, using the terms as essentially synonymous. SR

697 Listening Perceptual
704 Walking Movement
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
615 Hierarchical Race
616 Wound War
621 Women Clothes
624 Middle Class
635 Ambition Class
638 Men vs women Gender
639 Femininity Gender
643 Rural poverty Clothes
644 Class consciousness Class
650 Youth Age
652 Justice of the Peace Law
660 Evidence Law
662 Chivalry Gender
665 Domestic Violence
667 Newspaper Mass Media
673 Domestic Labor
681 Inheritance Law
708 Radio Mass Media

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