Actions: Perceptual Hearing

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"A Bear Hunt", 75 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Eleven o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Hearing | Play›Joking around | Play›Prank | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Cure | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Health and Illness›Insanity | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death›Funeral pyre / cremation | Objects›Fire
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson as synonym for state insane hospital | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Tone›Humorous
"Fool About a Horse", 133 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Emotional›Calm | Perceptual›Hearing
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
"Fool About a Horse", 134 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation
"Fool About a Horse", 134 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women
Aesthetics: Tone›Humorous
"Knight's Gambit", 212 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Driving | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
"Smoke", 14 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Community›Tradition
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
"The Bear", 282 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Hunting›Teaching | Hunting›Waiting | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Crossing | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
"The Bear", 283 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
"The Bear", 285 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Woodpecker|Lord-to-God | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
"The Bear", 291 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
"There Was a Queen", 734 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Body›Physical disability | Time›Measuring time
"Uncle Willy", 243 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Flight | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Absalom, Absalom!, 171 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Overwhelmed | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Past›Repetition
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 229 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Insulting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Similarity | Memory›Uncertain
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Absalom, Absalom!, 23 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Birdsong | Natural›Sky | Place›Church | Public›Church steeple | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Mental›Flashback | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Religion›Christianity | Religion›Sabbath
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Pigeons | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Time›Continuity | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Paint | Metafictional›Painting | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Repetition | Tone›Nostalgic | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 23 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bells | Place›Blacksmith shop | Place›Church | Place›Hotel | Place›Livery stable | Place›Saloon | Public›Courthouse | Public›Store | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Curiosity | Movement›Crossing | Movement›Horse | Movement›Riding | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Calling by name
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Economy›Commerce | Gender›Femininity | Gender›Lady | Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Creating an Other | Race›Etiquette | Religion›Church service | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Crowd | Community›Opinion | Community›Stranger | Naming›Importance of naming | Objects›Fan | Objects›Parasol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Time›Past
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Institutional›Church-Town | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ancient Greek Chorus | Description›Character portrait | Description›Location portrait | Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Musical imagery | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Revision | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Style›List | Style›Long sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 286 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Physical›Carrying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 3 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Haunting | Auditory›Quietness | Domestic Space›Office | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Olfactory›Smelling death | Place›Office | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Time of Year›Summer | Weather›Heat | Weather›Sun | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Bodily›Watching | Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Silence | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Age›Spinsterhood | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Chastity / purity | Gender›Femininity | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Sparrow | Body›Voice | Objects›Chair | Objects›Windows | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Repression | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Description›Character portrait | Description›Color black | Description›Color yellow | Description›Grotesque | Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Paint | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Figures of Speech›Water | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional | Narrative›Indeterminacy | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 4 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Spectral | Place›Plantation
Actions: Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Garrulousness | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Repetition | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Education›Harvard | History›Civil War consequences | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Region›The South | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Collaborative | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Diction›Neologism | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Ghost story | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Narrative›Conversation with oneself | Narrative›Imagined conversation | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 7 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Withholding
Absalom, Absalom!, 7 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Atmospheric›Haunted | Auditory›Echoing
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Unaware | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking back
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Community›Alienation | Determinism›Lack of choice | Futility›Inability | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Haunted by past | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Medical / Surgical | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Military terminology | Figures of Speech›Personification | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Commentary | Tone›Elegiac
Go Down, Moses, 174 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Defeat | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Go Down, Moses, 186 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Go Down, Moses, 186 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Teaching | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Observing
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Go Down, Moses, 189 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Go Down, Moses, 191 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Woodpecker|Lord-to-God
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Go Down, Moses, 211 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
Go Down, Moses, 212 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Watching | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Go Down, Moses, 225 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Shooting | Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Hearing | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named dog Lion
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Go Down, Moses, 226 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River
Actions: Movement›Swimming | Perceptual›Hearing | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion
Go Down, Moses, 227 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Woods
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Stabbing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Chaos/Order›Chaos | Death›Animal bear
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Go Down, Moses, 231 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Native American languages
Go Down, Moses, 232 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interspecies›Man-dog
Go Down, Moses, 234 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Breakfast
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben
Go Down, Moses, 289 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Old age
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Go Down, Moses, 304 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Movement›Train | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
Go Down, Moses, 308 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›And race | Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Comedy | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 314 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Psychological›Madness
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Go Down, Moses, 339 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Temporal projection
Light in August, 278 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Standing | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Talking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Light in August, 279 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Light in August, 402 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Responding
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Sanctuary, 160 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hotel
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bed | Objects›Chair | Objects›Silverware
Sanctuary, 198 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Racialized | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Race›Segregation | Sexuality›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect
Sanctuary, 216 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Drinking | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Sanctuary, 218 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Snoring | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Violence›Sexual
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Sanctuary, 220 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Losing consciousness | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Violence›Sexual
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Sanctuary, 222 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Olfactory›Honeysuckle | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Bodily›Vomiting | Mental›Fantasizing | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Nausea | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Sanctuary, 280 (Event)
Environment: Place›Courtroom | Public›Town Square
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Law›Trial
Sanctuary, 294 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Health and Illness›Insomnia
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Sanctuary, 310 (Event)
Environment: Public›Jail
Actions: Emotional›Apathy | Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Singing
Sanctuary, 316 (Event)
Environment: Public›Park | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Emotional›Apathy | Emotional›Sadness | Emotional›Sulking | Perceptual›Hearing | Play›Children playing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Classical music | Objects›Mirror
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Sanctuary, 79 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Ordering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Nightgown | Clothes›Raincoat
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual