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Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss Burning a town

Parent Term

  • Absence/Loss

Sibling Terms

  • Abandonment
  • Absence
  • Absence as disguise
  • Absence as loss
  • Absence of sound
  • Aloneness
  • Attempt to find substitute
  • Blame
  • Capture as loss
  • Deracination
  • Disappearance
  • Kinlessness
  • Livestock
  • Losing vs never having
  • Loss of animal companion
  • Loss of innocence
  • Loss of object
  • Material
  • Men
  • Military defeat
  • Missing
  • Money|Wealth
  • Of loved one
  • Over time
  • Racial
  • Red necks
  • Renewal
  • Separation
  • Substitute
  • Vanishing Indian
  • War

Tagged Events

"Appendix: Compson", 329 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Economy›Banking | History›Reconstruction | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Burning a town | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Battle of Jefferson
Requiem for a Nun, 182 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Destruction | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Burning a town
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Battle of Jefferson
The Town, 320 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Arrival of whites in Mississippi | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | Religion›Atheism | Religion›Baptist | Religion›Episcopal | Religion›Judaism | Religion›Methodism | Religion›Presbyterian | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Burning a town | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Battle of Jefferson