Themes and Motifs: Texts Newspapers

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"A Name for the City", 202 (Event)
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Arthritis | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Mail delivery
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Letters | Texts›Newspapers
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›First settlers arrive | Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
"An Error in Chemistry", 133 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Violent›Disfigurement | Violent›Murder | Work›Performance
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Circus
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Naming›Change over time | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poster
"Elly", 212 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Self-justifying | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Work | Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Newspapers
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Marital›Forced
"Elly", 213 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Newspapers
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
"Go Down, Moses", 266 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Newspapers | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Imitation | Narrative›Imagined conversation
"Knight's Gambit", 256 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Indecision | Verbal›Message
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Collaborative | Texts›Newspapers
Absalom, Absalom!, 6 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Starvation | Communication›Newspaper article | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Feeding | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Physical›Concealing | Physical›Confining | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Mass Media›Newspaper | Region›Lost Cause | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›And monuments | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Will to endure | Texts›Epitaph | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poetry | Values›Determination | Values›Devotion | Values›Durability
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Providing for
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Parentheses
Flags in the Dust, 392 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Communication›Telegraph
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Quest to recover | Death›Plane accident | Death›Response to | Texts›Newspapers
Sanctuary, 115 (Event)
Environment: Public›Jail
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shabby | Clothes›Veil
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Jewelry Charm | Texts›Newspapers
Relationships: Familial›Providing for
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Paris | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Sanctuary, 313 (Event)
Environment: Public›Jail
Actions: Emotional›Apathy
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Newspapers
Relationships: Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
The Mansion, 203 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Magazine | Texts›Newspapers
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Mansion, 98 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office | Place›Penitentiary
Actions: Communication›Newspaper article | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Renaming | Texts›Newspapers