Cultural Issues: Modernity
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Tagged Events
Actions: Communication›Censorship | Communication›Sending mail
Themes and Motifs: Body›Physical disability
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Atmospheric›Dereliction | Domestic Space›Boarding house | Place›Houses | Public›Golf course
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernization | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Homogeneity
Themes and Motifs: Time›And change | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Plantation to housing development
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›First-person passim
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Agriculture›Husbandry | Education›College | Government›Depression-era programs | Identity, Personal›Financial independence | Modernity›Interwar years | War›Draft
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Hierarchical›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Quietness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Buggy | Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Health and Illness›Fever | Modernity›Changing customs | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Sensory memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Past vs present | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Separated
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Running | Emotional›Anger | Physical›Burning | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Arson
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Art›Classical Greek | Character›Superhuman strength | Death›Coffin
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Style›Cubism
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Class›Declasse | Modernity›Speed | Slavery›Nostalgia | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Movement›Car | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Struggling | Violent›Intimidation
Themes and Motifs: Past›And monuments | Supernatural›Folk customs
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Auditory›Bugle | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Midnight
Themes and Motifs: Character›Courteous | Character›Recklessness | Objects›Anchovies | Objects›Coffee
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Car | Verbal›Exaggeration | Violent›Threatening
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Restraining | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed | War›Aerial combat | War›Death | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Johnny Sartoris shot down
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Hysteria | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Swearing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Restraining
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Bandage | Modernity›Speed
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Actions: Emotional›Indifference | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed | Technology›Automobile
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Health and Illness›Growth | Modernity›Speed
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Growth | Modernity›Speed
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper | Modernity›Speed | Race›Black family working for white
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Car
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Dumas, Alexandre
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Health and Illness›Growth | Modernity›Speed
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Airplane
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Church | Place›Country club
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Partying | Interaction, Social›Peer group | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Sharing confidences
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Class›Status, low | Health and Illness›Hangover | Modernity›Interwar years | Religion›Catholicism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment | Time of Day›Six o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›November
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Waiting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Abstinence | Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Glove | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Drug addiction | Crime›Prostitution | Modernity›Interwar years
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter | Objects›Furniture | Past›Past in present | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Exile›Alienation from nature
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Madame Bovary | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Actions: Economic›Buying on credit
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Agricultural›Ginning cotton
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Agricultural
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Movement›Hitch-hiking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Overalls | Clothes›Shoes | Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Paving
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment | Place›Artist's studio
Actions: Interaction, Social›Partying | Mental›Insight | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Themes and Motifs: Art›Painting | Art›Sculpture | Meaning›Aesthetic experience | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: History›Communism | History›Spanish Civil War | Modernity›Modernist style
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Greenwich Village | Language›French | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›Railroad log line | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Hunting season
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Logging | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Modernity›Changing customs
Environment: Place›Livery stable
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | Technology›Telephone
Environment: Domestic Space›Garage
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Cars
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Entertainment›Motoring | Law›Motor vehicle | Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Cars
Relationships: Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ford, Henry | Figures of Speech›Expression | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Luck
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Lane | Place›Motordrome
Cultural Issues: Education›Informal | Law›Motor vehicle | Modernity›Speed | Race›Segregation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Dogs
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Modernity›Changing customs | Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Time›Just in time
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Law›Regulation | Modernity›Changing customs | Politics›City government | Progress›Cars
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Recurring Episodes›Jefferson's first car
Actions: Emotional›Restlessness | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed | War›Psychological effects
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Bayard and the lost generation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Death›Longing for death | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Old Bayard's death
Actions: Work›Blacksmith | Work›Mechanic
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Cars | Progress›New replacing old
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Responsibility | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Father-son