Keywords
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4957 | History | Place |
I created this keyword to depict when a history of a specific location is given whether it is the jail in Jefferson or the McCaslin planation. JJ |
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| 1348 | Hospital | Place | ||
| 1993 | Hotel | Place | ||
| 2430 | Hotel kitchen | Place | ||
| 3898 | Houses | Place | ||
| 4794 | Hovel | Place | ||
| 757 | Hunting camps | Place | ||
| 4946 | Indian agency | Place | ||
| 4021 | Indian mound | Place | ||
| 892 | Jail | Place | ||
| 878 | Jefferson | Place | ||
| 1410 | Lane | Place | ||
| 4653 | Lavatory | Place | ||
| 3899 | Lawns | Place | ||
| 733 | Library | Place | ||
| 2010 | Livery stable | Place | ||
| 2157 | Lonelier parts of town | Place |
Term for when a text makes reference to parts of town with fewer people or streets -- outskirts, edge of town, "less frequented" (as in "Miss Zilphia Gant"), and so forth. JBP |
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| 2012 | Lot | Place | ||
| 2050 | Mars | Place | ||
| 723 | McCaslin-Edmonds plantation | Place | ||
| 2037 | Medical practice | Place |
Any place where "doctoring" is practiced whether that is formal, as with Peabody, or more informal. JB |
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| 589 | Memphis | Place | ||
| 4840 | Military camp | Place | ||
| 4984 | Mill | Place | ||
| 5181 | Monastery | Place | ||
| 2049 | Moon | Place | ||
| 2274 | Motordrome | Place | ||
| 5582 | Negro district | Place | ||
| 4874 | Newspaper office | Place | ||
| 942 | Office | Place | ||
| 3058 | Official office | Place | ||
| 4944 | Okatoba | Place | ||
| 4943 | Old Jefferson | Place | ||
| 5150 | Orphanage | Place | ||
| 2543 | Outlaw country | Place |
On a number of occasions, Faulkner makes reference to stretches of outlaw country. Places where illegal and illicit practices transpire, but there is no enforcement by local or federal authority. This is particular in reference to Frenchman's Bend in the Hamlet, but also Ballenbaugh's historic emergence in the Reivers. JB |
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| 2561 | Paducah | Place | ||
| 4719 | Park | Place | ||
| 5513 | Pawn shop | Place | ||
| 1769 | Penitentiary | Place | ||
| 738 | Plantation | Place | ||
| 1290 | Playground | Place | ||
| 2016 | Pond | Place | ||
| 2004 | Poorhouse | Place | ||
| 2139 | Power Plant | Place | ||
| 4988 | Quarters | Place | ||
| 2233 | Railroad | Place | ||
| 1005 | Railroad log line | Place | ||
| 2044 | River-bottom | Place | ||
| 2805 | Road | Place | ||
| 557 | Rural | Place | ||
| 2766 | Saloon | Place | ||
| 1198 | Sawmill | Place | ||
| 4995 | School, segregated | Place | ||
| 1276 | Seedy parts of town | Place | ||
| 5202 | Seminary | Place | ||
| 5130 | Sheriff's office | Place | ||
| 4247 | Shrubbery | Place | ||
| 5608 | Slave market | Place | ||
| 2026 | Slave Quarters | Place | ||
| 2027 | Smokehouse | Place | ||
| 2960 | Speakeasy | Place | ||
| 2894 | Spring | Place | ||
| 4838 | Stable | Place | ||
| 3783 | Stone wall | Place | ||
| 1270 | Tavern | Place | ||
| 4897 | Tent | Place | ||
| 1326 | Vacant house | Place | ||
| 2125 | Vacant lot | Place | ||
| 4558 | Well|Wellhouse | Place | ||
| 1728 | Wilderness-civilized boundary | Place | ||
| 4983 | Yoknapatawpha Beat | Place |
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5248 | Athletic competition | Play | ||
| 3777 | Betting | Play | ||
| 2074 | Card playing | Play |
Added for moments when it is unclear if (a) the game is poker, or (b) if gambling is occurring. -JBP |
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| 2729 | Checkers | Play | ||
| 2730 | Chess | Play | ||
| 2192 | Children playing | Play | ||
| 4723 | Fireworks | Play | ||
| 937 | Gambling | Play | ||
| 1858 | Historical recreation | Play | ||
| 4175 | Joking around | Play | ||
| 2480 | Playing in water | Play |
For when people (usually children) are playing (splashing, etc.) in water - a creek or branch - as in The Sound and the Fury. Distinct from "swimming" per se. JBP |
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| 1955 | Poker | Play | ||
| 3401 | Polo | Play | ||
| 4225 | Prank | Play | ||
| 1289 | School recess | Play | ||
| 3840 | Sport-fencing | Play | ||
| 3591 | Sports Crew / rowing | Play | ||
| 2205 | Sports Golf | Play | ||
| 3469 | Tennis | Play |
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5456 | And race | Politics | ||
| 4955 | Campaigning | Politics | ||
| 1849 | City government | Politics | ||
| 2579 | Conservative | Politics |
In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB |
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| 5589 | Corruption | Politics | ||
| 4971 | Demagoguery | Politics | ||
| 2900 | Democracy | Politics | ||
| 2577 | Democrat | Politics |
In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB |
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| 1066 | Election | Politics | ||
| 4979 | Exploitative | Politics |