Environment: Atmospheric Stillness

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"Dry September", 171 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Prejudice›Racism | Prejudice›White supremacy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Objects›Razor
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
"Go Down, Moses", 263 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Weather›Heat
Actions: Interaction, Social›Charity | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Corpse | Money›Collecting money | Money›Expenses
"Red Leaves", 313 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Global›Exoticism | Labor›Menial | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Quarters | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Death | Objects›Tobacco
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Exoticism | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
"Red Leaves", 321 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Physical›Hiding
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Slipper
"Red Leaves", 327 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Hunting›Slave hunting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Slavery›Fugitive
"The Tall Men", 54 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Year›November
Actions: Movement›Truck
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
"There Was a Queen", 727 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Race›Division
Themes and Motifs: Time›Permanence
Absalom, Absalom!, 14 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Spectral | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Street
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Middle
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Objects›Fence | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Pause
Absalom, Absalom!, 15 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Stillness | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Domestic Space | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Observing | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Meaning›Aesthetic experience | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Story-telling›Explaining | Texts | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Ambiguity | Description›Color yellow | Interpretation›Explanatory passage | Metafictional | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-Reflective | Symbolism›Time
Absalom, Absalom!, 23 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Veranda | Natural›Flowers | Olfactory›Cigar | Olfactory›Flowers | Place›Lawns | Time of Day›Evening | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Emotional›Anticipation | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Animals›Lightning bugs | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Wisteria | Time›Anticipation
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Tone›Nostalgic | Typography/Orthography›Dash
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›Stillness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Visualize | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Plantation culture | Progress›Clearing the land | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Creation | Chaos/Order›Order | Naming›Place name | Objects›Cards | Objects›Table | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament | Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Symbolism›Hamsa | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 6 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›House | Place›Houses | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Weather›Heat
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Emotional›Waiting | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Obeying / obedience | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Lace | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison | Home›Neglect | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Color black | Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Numerous adjectives
As I Lay Dying, 11 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Restraining
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Temporal projection
As I Lay Dying, 30 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Carpentry | Auditory›Sawing | Auditory›Voices | Time of Day›Five o'clock p.m.
Actions: Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Hunting and Fishing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Character›Comforter | Death | Objects›Fish
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Description›Animate/Inanimate | Description›Eyes
As I Lay Dying, 54 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Rage | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Vitality
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
As I Lay Dying, 7 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Carpentry | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Housekeeping | Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Economizing
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty | Religion›Piety
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
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, 248 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Quietness | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Reading aloud | Verbal›Swearing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Convalescence
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Piano
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Simile-mask | Language›Ellipsis | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Flags in the Dust, 256 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Bodily›Trembling | Emotional›Terror | Mental›Nightmare | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Swearing | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Go Down, Moses, 360 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Interaction, Social›Charity
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Money›Collecting money
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
The Hamlet, 373 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses