Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss Absence

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"A Bear Hunt", 74 (Event)
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Laughing | Moral›Scheming | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
"Ambuscade", 6 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
"An Error in Chemistry", 123 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Law›Investigation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Meaning›Interpretation
"By the People", 137 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Temporal projection
"By the People", 137 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
"Centaur in Brass", 161 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Deception | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Brass
"Centaur in Brass", 162 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Searching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Brass
"Hand upon the Waters", 67 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Whimper
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Health and Illness›Mute
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Body›Physical disability | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Hand upon the Waters", 77 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Death›Burial
"Hand upon the Waters", 77 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Body›Mental disability
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 378 (Event)
Environment: Place›Vacant house
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Morals›Chivalry
Relationships: Marital›Separated
"Skirmish at Sartoris", 70 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Veil | Food›Community
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Community›Wedding | Objects›Basket | Objects›Silver | Objects›Wreath
"The Hound", 159 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Following | Non-human›Dog barking | Violent›Shooting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Dogs
"The Unvanquished", 86 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
"The Unvanquished", 87 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Region›Lost Cause | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Absalom, Absalom!, 117 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Burial
Cultural Issues: Gender
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Naming | Objects›Photograph | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Seed | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 117 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Absalom, Absalom!, 120 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Actions: Movement›Running
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 122 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Domestic›Cooking | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Body›Blood | Objects›Mirror | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 129 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Fury | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carcassonne | Allusion, Literary›Camelot | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Ripple | Figures of Speech›Shell | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 165 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Curse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Meaning›Limitations of words / language
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 18 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Fever | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Memory | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath
Absalom, Absalom!, 26 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Money›Gold
Absalom, Absalom!, 261 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Messenger | Emotional›Longing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Absalom, Absalom!, 261 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 263 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Thinking
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 266 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 33 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Absalom, Absalom!, 49 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Vindictive | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial
Absalom, Absalom!, 50 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Marital›Elopement
Absalom, Absalom!, 56 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Absalom, Absalom!, 61 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Death›Deathbed
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Butterfly
Absalom, Absalom!, 73 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Absalom, Absalom!, 79 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Relationships: Familial | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Figures of Speech›Scientific | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Interpretation | Metafictional›Signs | Narrative›Indeterminacy
Absalom, Absalom!, 81 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Absalom, Absalom!, 99 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Solitary
Flags in the Dust, 19 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Music
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Horses | Art›African American music | Chaos/Order›Emptiness | Character›Noisiness | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Pipe | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Flags in the Dust, 347 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Flags in the Dust, 351 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking | Time of Day›Twilight | Weather›Frost
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Dog-fox | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Flags in the Dust, 45 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Memory›Haunted by past
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Go Down, Moses, 119 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Metal detector
Go Down, Moses, 119 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Car
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Go Down, Moses, 119 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Movement›Car
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 188 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Go Down, Moses, 275 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Government›Voting rights | History›Civil War consequences | History›Reconstruction | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Race›White fear | Race›White supremacists | Slavery›Emancipation | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Interracial violence | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Noah/flood
Go Down, Moses, 279 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood
Go Down, Moses, 300 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Go Down, Moses, 339 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Indignation | Perceptual›Ambiguity
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And gender | Sexuality›Illegitimacy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Money›Cash
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery
Go Down, Moses, 346 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Segregation | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Intruder in the Dust, 132 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Monday
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Truck | Physical›Sleeping | Violent›Lynch mob
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Intruder in the Dust, 132 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Truck | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›White supremacy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Intruder in the Dust, 163 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Dogs
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son
Intruder in the Dust, 176 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Movement›Truck
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Intruder in the Dust, 204 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Morals›Morality | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Intruder in the Dust, 206 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Ten o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›May
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Intruder in the Dust, 38 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Movement›Walking
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Time›Routine
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Ten Commandments
Intruder in the Dust, 38 (Event)
Actions: Work›Missing work
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Intruder in the Dust, 45 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Public›Street | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunday | Time of Year›May
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Intruder in the Dust, 48 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument
Requiem for a Nun, 108 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Emotional›Impatience | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Discussion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Requiem for a Nun, 152 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Verbal›Screaming
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Money›Cash
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Requiem for a Nun, 153 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office | Time of Day›Three o'clock a.m. | Time of Year›March
Actions: Bodily›Kneeling | Bodily›Sitting | Bodily›Standing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect
Sanctuary, 120 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Physical›Hammering
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Sanctuary, 131 (Event)
Environment: Public›Jail
Actions: Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Law›Bail | Law›Execution
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Sanctuary, 171 (Event)
Environment: Public›Post office
Actions: Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Searching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Appearance›Cosmetics | Futility›Nothing to do
Sanctuary, 268 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
The Hamlet, 175 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Tragic / tragedy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility›Illusion of success or victory
Aesthetics: Tone›Elegiac
The Hamlet, 19 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Riding | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Hamlet, 239 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Grief
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Hamlet, 49 (Event)
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Domestic›Cooking | Physical›Eating
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Mansion, 10 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Cattle
The Mansion, 140 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
The Mansion, 163 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Stock trading
Cultural Issues: Economy›Banking
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William
The Mansion, 26 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Determinism›Fated
The Mansion, 29 (Event)
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility›Nothing to do
The Mansion, 315 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Progress›Road traffic | Progress›Skyscraper
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Mansion, 336 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Prisoner | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Irony
The Mansion, 5 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Mansion, 60 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Mansion, 73 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Mansion, 9 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Reivers , 188 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hotel
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Reivers , 190 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Ladies parlor | Place›Hotel
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Reivers , 227 (Event)
Environment: Place›Spring | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hardwick, Tennessee | Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 280 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Office
Actions: Moral›Secret | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Reivers , 290 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Emotional›Triumph | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race | Race›Solidarity | Race›Stereotype cannibalism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Horses
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Allusion, Historical›Caesar, Julius | Language›Yah-yah-yah | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 148 (Event)
Environment: Public›Bank
Actions: Mental›Learning
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Town, 197 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Food›Ice-cream
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
The Town, 204 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Walking
Cultural Issues: Education›Graduation | Entertainment›Movies
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Character›Resolve | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
The Town, 251 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cellar
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Tone›Humorous
The Town, 386 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Cooking
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
The Town, 77 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Death›Future | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection