Themes and Motifs: Story-telling Communal mythology

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"A Name for the City", 201 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
"A Rose for Emily", 120 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age | Class›Respectability | Gender
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
"Gold Is Not Always", 227 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Law›Evidence
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Story-telling›Communal mythology
"Gold Is Not Always", 228 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Retelling
"Red Leaves", 317 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Movement›Boat | Play›Gambling
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Character›Ambitious | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Values›Honor
Relationships: Friendship | Sexual
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
Absalom, Absalom!, 27 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Absalom, Absalom!, 5 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Memory | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 7 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Health and Illness›Fever | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Chaos/Order›Creation | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Disease | Narrative›Anticipation
Go Down, Moses, 221 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Go Down, Moses, 245 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: History›American historical myths
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament
Requiem for a Nun, 183 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Progress›Ironies of
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Requiem for a Nun, 32 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment
Requiem for a Nun, 4 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Requiem for a Nun, 5 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Communal story
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Debunking story
The Sound and the Fury, 106 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Place›Sawmill
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Meddling | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Throwing downstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›Elite | Clothes›Silk | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Food›Pumpkin pie | Gender›Bitch | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Southern woman | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Region›The South | Slavery›Galley slave
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flower orchid | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Genre Conventions›Melodrama | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Tone›Overwrought | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Town, 106 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Helen of Troy | Allusion, Literary›Guinevere | Allusion, Literary›Lancelot | Allusion, Literary›Romeo and Juliet | Allusion, Literary›Tristan and Isolde
The Town, 147 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting
The Unvanquished, 97 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Sabotage
Themes and Motifs: Futility | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Values›Honor
The Unvanquished, 97 (Event)
Environment: Place›Railroad
Cultural Issues: War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology