Actions: Communication Writing

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"A Justice", 346 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi River
"A Justice", 347 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Play›Gambling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi River
"By the People", 139 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Verbal›Teasing
Cultural Issues: Politics›Democracy
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Surrogate | Familial›Uncle-nephew
"Elly", 217 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Defiance | Interaction, Private›Domineering
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Racism | Race›Segregation
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›University of Virginia | Typography/Orthography›Italics
"Knight's Gambit", 166 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Communication›Silence | Communication›Writing | Physical›Travel
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Letters
"Knight's Gambit", 170 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Communication›Writing
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Objects›Cards | Objects›Letter
"Knight's Gambit", 248 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Romantic›Multiple
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 378 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Communication›Newspaper columns and notices | Communication›Writing | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Reading
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Marital›Vicarious wedding
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Christ | Allusion, Biblical›Mary
"Raid", 52 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
"The Unvanquished", 78 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scamming
Cultural Issues: Crime›Forgery | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Alias | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mottstown | Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi | Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"The Unvanquished", 95 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Emotional›Regret
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Inability | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
"Uncle Willy", 236 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Sexuality›Prostitution
Absalom, Absalom!, 100 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Movement›Surrey
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Appearance›Similarity | Body›Face | Community›Social life | Death›Burial | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Loom | Figures of Speech›Skull | Figures of Speech›Stone | Narrative›Self-Reflective
Absalom, Absalom!, 11 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Communication›Writing | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Deduction | Moral›Deception | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Gender›Gentleman | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Law›Legal document | Law›Wedding license
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Wedding license | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability | Social›Adversarial | Social›Snobbery
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical›Virginia | Figures of Speech›Mask | Figures of Speech›Negation | Language›Anaphora
Absalom, Absalom!, 170 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Yellow fever
Themes and Motifs: Death›Deathbed | Death›Epitaph
Absalom, Absalom!, 172 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Play›Gambling
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 208 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Education›College
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi River | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Metafictional›Signs
Absalom, Absalom!, 248 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scheming | Mental›Calculation
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 5 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Communication›Listening | Communication›Speaking | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Predicting | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Professional | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Education›Harvard | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Women | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Mass Media›Magazines | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Objects›Chair | Objects›Magazine | Philosophical›Power of literature | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Time›Anticipation | Time›Future
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Metafictional›Projection | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Temporal projection | Tone›Ironic | Tone›Sarcastic
Absalom, Absalom!, 6 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Note | Communication›Writing | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Godhead | Religion›Providence | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Absence/Loss›War | Inheritance›Traits | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Texts›Note | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Water | Language›Biblical | Narrative›Self-correction | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 6 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Starvation | Communication›Newspaper article | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Feeding | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Physical›Concealing | Physical›Confining | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Mass Media›Newspaper | Region›Lost Cause | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›And monuments | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Will to endure | Texts›Epitaph | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poetry | Values›Determination | Values›Devotion | Values›Durability
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Providing for
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Parentheses
Absalom, Absalom!, 64 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Legal›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Death | Objects›Bible
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Absalom, Absalom!, 64 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Speech
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bible
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy
Absalom, Absalom!, 65 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Crime›Looting | Food | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Absalom, Absalom!, 98 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: History›Battle of Shiloh|Pittsburg Landing | War›Civil War | War›Wound
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Flags in the Dust, 101 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›May
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Communication›Writing | Physical›Burning | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Flags in the Dust, 105 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Pipe smoke
Actions: Communication›Transcribing | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Cleaning | Moral›Blackmail | Moral›Secret
Cultural Issues: Gender›Work | Race›Native American stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Objects›Air gun | Objects›Letter | Objects›Phonograph
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Exoticism | Metafictional›Picture/image
Flags in the Dust, 273 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity
Flags in the Dust, 370 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Flowers | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Communication›Writing
Themes and Motifs: Exile | Texts›Letters
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Byron | Allusion, Literary›Poem: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | Language›Ellipsis
Flags in the Dust, 371 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Moral›Deception
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Flags in the Dust, 90 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Writing | Physical›Crawling
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›In childbirth | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Skull | Past›Family history | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Flags in the Dust, 90 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Legal›Record keeping
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Texts›Bible
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy
Go Down, Moses, 246 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Biblical curse
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Ham | Interpretation›Ambiguity | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
Go Down, Moses, 247 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Interpretation
Go Down, Moses, 248 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Domestic›Housekeeping | Physical›Building | Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Amelioration | Slavery›Housing | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Purchase
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Go Down, Moses, 249 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Verbal›Naming self
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Manumission | Slavery›Naming slaves | Slavery›Purchase
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 253 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 253 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Domestic›Housekeeping | Violent›Suicide
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 256 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Persistence over time
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting
Go Down, Moses, 259 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Go Down, Moses, 260 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And class | Clothes›And race | Identity, Cultural›Northerner | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | Race›Behaving "white"
Relationships: Interracial›Pseudo-family
Go Down, Moses, 267 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Naming self
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 292 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Accounting | Economic›Indebtedness
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Light in August, 233 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Porch | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›Saturday | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Bodily›Standing | Communication›Writing | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Bonnet | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Shirt
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Furniture
Light in August, 233 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Receiving mail | Communication›Sending mail | Communication›Writing | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Legal›Will | Mental›Learning | Verbal›Giving advice
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Racial solidarity
Relationships: Social›Mentorship
Requiem for a Nun, 17 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Requiem for a Nun, 179 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Public›Jail
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Progress›As loss
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Sanctuary, 260 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Olfactory›Coffee | Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Shaving | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Making coffee | Emotional›Exhaustion
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Marital›Divorce
Sanctuary, 265 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Communication›Writing | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Sanctuary, 309 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Writing | Physical›Travel
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
The Hamlet, 231 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Education›Exams / tests | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
The Hamlet, 232 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Education›Exams / tests | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Women as aggressive
The Mansion, 262 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Love | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human experience | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Europe | Allusion, Geographical›New York | Language›Profanity | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 264 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room
Actions: Communication›Writing | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Mansion, 273 (Event)
Environment: Place›Factory|Plant | Public›Street
Actions: Bodily›Kissing | Communication›Writing | Work›Factory
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Overalls | Gender›Masculine woman
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Mansion, 276 (Event)
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Communication›Writing | Movement›Car
Relationships: Romantic›Potential
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Mansion, 276 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Hotel
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Kissing | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Love | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: War›Wound
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Mirror
Relationships: Marital›Vicarious wedding
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Mansion, 398 (Event)
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Communication›Writing
Themes and Motifs: Values›Idealism
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 426 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Friday
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Law›Police | Mass Media›Newspaper | Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Civic records
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Diction›Rural vernacular
The Mansion, 462 (Event)
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Communication›Writing | Verbal›Discussion
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Epitaph
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 465 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Caressing | Bodily›Kissing | Communication›And deafness | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Love | Emotional›Terror
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Body›Buttocks | Character›Trust | Money›Cash | Texts›Deed | Values›Devotion
Relationships: Romantic›Potential
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 81 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Feeling pain | Bodily›Shaving | Communication›Addressing for mail delivery | Communication›Letter | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Packing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Dressing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Suit | Health and Illness›Doctoring
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Keys | Objects›Paper | Objects›Trunk | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption
The Town, 223 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Telephone | Technology›Typewriter
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Letters
Aesthetics: Language›German | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Unvanquished, 109 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Auditory›Silence
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chivalry | War›Destruction
The Unvanquished, 126 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scamming
Cultural Issues: Crime›Forgery | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Naming›Alias | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mottstown | Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Unvanquished, 153 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Writing | Emotional›Regret
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Inability | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild