Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes

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"A Point of Law", 215 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Premarital
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"A Point of Law", 218 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Staring | Economic›Bargaining | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Headrag | Clothes›Overalls | Clothes›Panama hat
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Intergenerational›Conflict | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy | Style›Character portrait | Tone›Humorous
"A Point of Law", 223 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Cottonfield | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Law›Spousal privilege | Race›Etiquette
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Money›Dowry | Objects›Wagon | Objects›Well | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Conflict | Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Conflict | Interracial›Conflict | Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"A Rose for Emily", 124 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Buggy
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Reproduction | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
"A Rose for Emily", 125 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Pity | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Values›Dignity
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
"A Rose for Emily", 126 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Buggy | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glove | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Men vs women | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Horsewhip | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
"A Rose for Emily", 126 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Movement›Buggy
Cultural Issues: Religion›Baptist | Religion›Episcopal
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Institutional›Minister and parishioner
"A Rose for Emily", 126 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter
Cultural Issues: Religion | Sexuality›Premarital
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Relationships: Familial›Kinship
"A Rose for Emily", 127 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Sexuality›Premarital
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Relationships: Familial›Kinship
"A Rose for Emily", 127 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Gender | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
"A Rose for Emily", 128 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Domestic›Teaching
Cultural Issues: Politics›Taxes
Themes and Motifs: Art›Painting | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Teacher-student
"Ambuscade", 5 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Actions: Moral›Secret | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Vicksburg
"Ambuscade", 8 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Discipline
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregated space | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Texts›Bible
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"Barn Burning", 13 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Idleness | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Washing clothes | Verbal›Begging | Verbal›Command | Work›Chopping wood
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Whippoorwills | Objects›Coffee | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›France | Allusion, Literary›Gulliver's Travels
"Barn Burning", 14 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Sleeping | Movement›Mule
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Door
"Barn Burning", 23 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Running | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Warning
Cultural Issues: Clothes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Honeysuckle | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Barn Burning", 9 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Peace | Movement›Walking | Physical›Cooking
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Clothes›Apron | Clothes›Expensive | Race›Etiquette
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Honeysuckle | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Conflict | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›First-person | Typography/Orthography›Italics
"Centaur in Brass", 149 (Event)
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›America and opportunity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Romantic›Courtship
"Centaur in Brass", 150 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Restauranteer
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Education›Yale | Gender›Bachelor | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Femininity | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Advent | Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
"Centaur in Brass", 151 (Event)
Environment: Place›Grocery
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Government | Group Mentality›Community collective | Politics›City government
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Economical | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
"Elly", 207 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Frustration | Movement›Car
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Interracial›Romantic
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
"Elly", 208 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Emotional›Introspective
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity
"Elly", 212 (Event)
Environment: Public›Drugstore
Actions: Verbal›Requesting
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability
"Elly", 213 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Empty room
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Trousseau
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
"Elly", 214 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Home›Getting away | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
"Elly", 216 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Hysteria | Movement›Car | Movement›Getting closer
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
"Elly", 220 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom
Actions: Emotional›Seduction | Violent›Domestic violence | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Cleansing power of water
"Elly", 221 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Car
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability
"Go Down, Moses", 262 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Heat
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Advertising | Mass Media›Newspaper | Politics›Republicanism | Progress›Trains | Race›Segregation | Ritual›Funeral arrangements
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Corpse | Death›Funeral | Money›Expenses | Objects›Flowers | Recurring Tropes›"Wait"
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Square brackets
"Go Down, Moses", 263 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation | Slavery›Music
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Eyes | Objects›Pipe | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Pharaoh | Allusion, Historical›Roman senator | Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals | Language›Call and response | Narrative›Quotation as thought | Typography/Orthography›Square brackets
"Go Down, Moses", 265 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Death›Funeral | Objects›Monument | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
"Hair", 133 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Men vs women | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
"Hair", 143 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Economic›Gifting | Work›Barbering
Cultural Issues: Age | Ritual›Visit
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
"Hand upon the Waters", 67 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Knight's Gambit", 162 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Community›Stranger | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
"Knight's Gambit", 169 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›House
Actions: Economic›Auction | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Realization | Movement›Riding
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Reality
"Knight's Gambit", 207 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Draft
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
"Lion", 188 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Intimidation | Movement›Train | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Objects›Suitcase | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Lion", 192 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
"Lion", 192 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Natural›Wilderness | Place›Hunting camps | Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Actions: Emotional›Fear
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben | Objects›Compass | Objects›Gun | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conversation with oneself | Typography/Orthography›Italics
"Lion", 195 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 377 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Heartbeat | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Metaphorical elephant | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Home as prison | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Marital›Separated
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Shadows
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 378 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Sadness | Work›Painting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Relationships: Marital›Separated
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 380 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Healing | Bodily›Insomnia | Bodily›Pregnancy | Bodily›Waking | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Recovery | Physical›Dreaming
Themes and Motifs: Futility›When will it stop | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Texts›Letters
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 380 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Waking | Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Sexuality›Frustration
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Lack of choice | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen | Time›Long passage of time
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 381 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Child care
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 381 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight | Domestic›Child care | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning | Food›As substitute
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
"Monk", 41 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Power of literature | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Metafictional | Narrative›First-person passim
"Monk", 42 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Arrest
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Corpse | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Monk", 42 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Gambling | Crime›Vagrancy | Race›Law
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
"Monk", 42 (Event)
Environment: Public›Court
Cultural Issues: Law›Jury
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Monk", 42 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Law›Alienating | Law›Justice of the Peace
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Monk", 43 (Event)
Environment: Place›Gallows
Actions: Physical›Hanging
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
"Monk", 43 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house
Actions: Movement›Car | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Progress›Infrastructure
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Social›Isolation
"Monk", 46 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Legal›Arrest
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Law›Alienating
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Monk", 47 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Legal›Confession
Cultural Issues: Law›Justice of the Peace
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-Reflective
"Monk", 47 (Event)
Environment: Place›Gallows
Cultural Issues: Law›Execution
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-Reflective | Narrative›Temporal projection
"Monk", 47 (Event)
Environment: Public›Court
Cultural Issues: Law›Trial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall" | Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Italics
"Monk", 47 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Arrest
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Monk", 47 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Arraign
Cultural Issues: Law›Justice of the Peace
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Mule in the Yard", 250 (Event)
Environment: Auditory | Weather›Fog
Actions: Bodily›Running | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Apparition | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
"Mule in the Yard", 251 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Fog
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole
"Mule in the Yard", 253 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Work›Painting
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
"Mule in the Yard", 254 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Confused din | Domestic Space›Porch | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Sidewalk
Actions: Perceptual›Observing | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cap | Clothes›Dress
Themes and Motifs: Community›Knowledge | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole
"Mule in the Yard", 254 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Domestic Space›Yard | Weather›Fog
Actions: Physical›Chase | Physical›Running | Verbal›Shouting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
"Mule in the Yard", 256 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Ammonia | Olfactory›Sweat
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Running
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
"Mule in the Yard", 257 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Hoofbeats | Domestic Space›Cellar | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Morning | Weather›Fog
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Bodily›Smelling | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Running
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"Mule in the Yard", 262 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Paying | Economic›Scamming | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Realization | Moral›Exploitation | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Eating | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Gallic
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Justice | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
"Race at Morning", 297 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Raid", 41 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Re-enslavement
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Reunion
"Raid", 46 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Migration | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | History›Awareness of / Being in history | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
"Red Leaves", 315 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Silence
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality | Race›Stereotype: smell
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
"Red Leaves", 316 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Government›Inheritance
Themes and Motifs: Death | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader | Intergenerational›Conflict
"Red Leaves", 326 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Slave hunting | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
"Red Leaves", 341 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Well | Recurring Tropes›"Wait"
"Retreat", 17 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Natural›Orchard | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Mental›Dreaming
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
"Retreat", 26 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Glorification
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
"Retreat", 32 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chivalry
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Reunion
"Shingles for the Lord", 40 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Fire
Actions: Interaction, Social›Church | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Labor | Religion›Rituals and rites
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
"Smoke", 20 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Pity | Verbal›Preaching
Cultural Issues: Religion›Church service
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
"Smoke", 21 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Lack of choice | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
"Smoke", 29 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Performance
"Smoke", 29 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Performance
"Smoke", 38 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Moral›Deception
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Performance
"Smoke", 5 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Community›Opinion | Recurring Tropes›Solitary
"Spotted Horses", 166 (Event)
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Economy›Predatory practices
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
"That Evening Sun", 302 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"The Old People", 211 (Event)
Environment: Otherworldly
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Verbal›Talking
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Renewal | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Relationships: Ancestral›Indian | Familial›Father-son
"The Tall Men", 46 (Event)
Actions: Work›Accident
Cultural Issues: Law›Warrant | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Prejudice›Socio-economic | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Aesthetics: Description›Location portrait
"The Tall Men", 51 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Kissing | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Government›Bureaucracy | Health and Illness›Amputation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Values›Honor
"The Unvanquished", 74 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Father said
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
"The Unvanquished", 78 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Recovery
"There Was a Queen", 728 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Race›Black family working for white | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy
"There Was a Queen", 735 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Verbal›Reticence | Verbal›Silence
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
"There Was a Queen", 737 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Emotional›Vindictive
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery
"There Was a Queen", 738 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›"Wait" | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Time›Permanence
Aesthetics: Description›Color white | Figures of Speech›Simile
"There Was a Queen", 738 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
"There Was a Queen", 743 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Dying
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Tomorrow", 109 (Event)
Environment: Place›Memphis | Public›Highway
Actions: Emotional›Love | Movement›Driving | Verbal›Dialogue
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Economy›Wealth | Education›Mentorship
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bugs | Body›Flesh | Memory | Objects›Car | Philosophical›Human nature | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Mentorship | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Shakespeare
"Tomorrow", 90 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Interaction, Social›Elopement | Moral›Prohibiting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Elopement
"Tomorrow", 94 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house | Domestic Space›Porch | Natural›Hills | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Moral›Prohibiting | Movement›Driving | Verbal›Command
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Gender›Masculinity | Land-Use›Corn farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Intertextuality›Embedded text, lettering
"Tomorrow", 98 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Domestic›Cleaning | Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Milking | Domestic›Nursing | Domestic›Washing | Mental›Discovery | Moral›Lying | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Rural poverty
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Goat | Naming›False name | Recurring Tropes›"Wait"
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Collaborative narration
"Two Soldiers", 97 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Uniform | Economy›Wealth | Progress›Country to city | Progress›Technological | Technology›Elevator
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Civic›child protection
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
"Two Soldiers", 99 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Sadness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
"Vendee", 107 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Shots | Weather›Frost
Actions: Violent›Assault | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Snake | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
"Vendee", 110 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
"Vendee", 115 (Event)
Environment: Place›Grave | Time of Day›Dusk | Weather›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Crying
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
"Vendee", 116 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | War›Defeat | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
"Vendee", 116 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Violent›Mutilation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Family role | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
"Wash", 536 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Bad smell
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Objects›Scythe | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses
"Wash", 536 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Economy›Property | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Diction›Rural vernacular
"Wash", 544 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Movement›Riding
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
"Wash", 546 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Opportunism | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Narrative›Anticipation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 10 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 108 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Domestic›Sewing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress
Themes and Motifs: Death›Murder | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 109 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway | Place›Plantation
Actions: Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal | Race›Division | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Supernatural›Haunting
Relationships: Familial | Interracial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 11 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wedding license | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Absalom, Absalom!, 11 (Event)
Actions: Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Forced migration
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Absalom, Absalom!, 113 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Narrative›Fantasy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 113 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Terror | Mental›Nightmare
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 114 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Race›Etiquette
Themes and Motifs: Body›Voice | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Sickness | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Supernatural›Spell
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 115 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Body›Brain / mind | Body›Sensory experience | Memory | Objects›Wisteria | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 116 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Gender
Themes and Motifs: Body›Sensory experience | Body›Womb | Memory›Forgetting | Psychological›Will to endure | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Mediation | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 117 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Emotional›Love | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Seed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 118 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Sneaking | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Gender | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Values›Love
Absalom, Absalom!, 119 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 12 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Renounce | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Objects›Corpse | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution | Marital›Arrangements
Absalom, Absalom!, 120 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homebound | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 120 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Trousseau
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Reality
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 121 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 121 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Calm | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Burial | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Rebel yell | Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Mediation | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | 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!, 123 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shirt | Food
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Pistol | Objects›Saddlebag | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 123 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Domestic›Sewing | Hunting | Physical›Waiting | Work›Chopping wood | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Civil War | War›Deprivation | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 123 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Burial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 126 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Place›Grave | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Domestic›Feeding | Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Defeat | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ruthless | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Rape | 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!, 13 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Crime›Gambling | Region›The South | Religion›Institutional | Slavery›Southern curse | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Character›Teetotaler | Meaning | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Friendship | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical›Heaven
Absalom, Absalom!, 130 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Ultimatum
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | History›Carpetbaggers | Race›Ku Klux Klan | Race›Riots | Region›Reconstruction
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 132 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Submission / Acquiescence | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Ring | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Time›Frozen / Static
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Stone | Metafictional›Signs | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 133 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Satan | Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 135 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Memory | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Supernatural›Phantom | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Love
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Pilgrim | Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 136 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Requesting | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Death | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Orphan | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 139 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fixation | Story-telling›Audience response
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Absalom, Absalom!, 139 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Violence›Language | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 140 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Mystery | Recurring Tropes›Fixation | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Absalom, Absalom!, 141 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Cold
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Odor
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 142 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Violence›Language
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Fixation | Recurring Tropes›Performance
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hamlet
Absalom, Absalom!, 143 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Starvation | Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class›Respectability | Class›White trash | Crime›Murder | History›Stealing Indian land | Region›Reconstruction | Slavery›Emancipation | War›Civil War | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Beelzebub | Allusion, Historical›Davis, Jefferson | Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Allusion, Literary›Faustus | Allusion, Mythical›Agamemnon | Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Pyramus and Thisbe | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Jackal | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Scythe | Narrative›Summary | Tone›Shift
Absalom, Absalom!, 147 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Body›Voice | Objects›Eyeglasses | Recurring Tropes›Odor
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 148 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Faustus | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Dragon's teeth | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Scythe | Narrative›Summary | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 149 (Event)
Environment: Public›Store
Actions: Bodily›Drinking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Status, low | Food
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Jug | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 15 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Texts | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Metafictional
Absalom, Absalom!, 15 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado
Absalom, Absalom!, 150 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Physical›Carrying
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Disruption
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 150 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Horse | Work
Cultural Issues: Class | War›Civil War | War›Going to war | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Values›Loyalty | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 151 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Face | Death›Corpse | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 168 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Odor
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!, 185 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Clothes | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Door
Absalom, Absalom!, 188 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Themes and Motifs: Character›Constitutive moment | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 188 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Cave
Actions: Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Violence›Imagined
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 19 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Triumph
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Absalom, Absalom!, 194 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Relationships: Marital›Divorce
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Absalom, Absalom!, 195 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Intimidation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Wealth | Education›Illiteracy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Books | Recurring Tropes›Destiny | Texts
Relationships: Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Absalom, Absalom!, 196 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Ship
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Absalom, Absalom!, 198 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Destiny | Story-telling
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery
Absalom, Absalom!, 199 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Absalom, Absalom!, 199 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Relationships: Marital›Divorce
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Absalom, Absalom!, 199 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Story-telling
Relationships: Marital›Divorce
Aesthetics: Language›French | Narrative›Gaps
Absalom, Absalom!, 200 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Absalom, Absalom!, 200 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Plantation
Actions: Physical›Burning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Absalom, Absalom!, 200 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Food›Sugar
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma | Recurring Tropes›Odor
Absalom, Absalom!, 201 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Cruelty | Emotional›Fear | Violent›Vengeance
Cultural Issues: Slavery | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Character›Greed | Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood
Absalom, Absalom!, 203 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Story-telling
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Absalom, Absalom!, 204 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Sound of drums | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Chanting | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Odor
Absalom, Absalom!, 204 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Absalom, Absalom!, 207 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Physical›Capture | Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›French
Absalom, Absalom!, 208 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Wealth | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Familial
Absalom, Absalom!, 209 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Hate
Cultural Issues: Region›The South | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Absalom, Absalom!, 209 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Ascent
Cultural Issues: Economy›Wealth | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 210 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Constitutive moment | Meaning›Interpretation of symbol | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Running out
Absalom, Absalom!, 210 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Seraphim and cherubim
Absalom, Absalom!, 211 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Logically reasoning | Moral›Rationalization
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Morals›Injustice | Recurring Tropes›Design | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Marital›Divorce
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate
Absalom, Absalom!, 211 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Divorce
Absalom, Absalom!, 212 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation | Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Time
Relationships: Marital›Divorce
Absalom, Absalom!, 213 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Recurring Tropes›Design | Values›Conscience
Absalom, Absalom!, 214 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Actions: Emotional›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Narrative›Irony
Absalom, Absalom!, 218 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Dirty
Themes and Motifs: Futility | Morals›Morality | Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Running out
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jericho | Allusion, Geographical›Rome | Figures of Speech›Technological imagery | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 223 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Shrewdness | Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Running out
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Seed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 231 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Narrative›Gaps
Absalom, Absalom!, 234 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 237 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Hate
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Absalom, Absalom!, 238 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Hate | Mental›Learning
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood
Themes and Motifs: Memory | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Disease
Absalom, Absalom!, 240 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Time›Lost time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Absalom, Absalom!, 243 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Time of Day›Midnight | Weather›Snow
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creation | Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Metafictional›Signs
Absalom, Absalom!, 243 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Emotional›Hate | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sabine people | Figures of Speech›Military analogy | Figures of Speech›Technological imagery | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 253 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Hate | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Gender›Feminine man
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Character›Inherited traits | Recurring Tropes›Imitation | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 255 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Thinking
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 256 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Sensuality
Themes and Motifs: Art›Objet d'art | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Weaponry imagery | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 263 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 267 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 268 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Believing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Race›Miscegenation | War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Interracial | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 269 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Mental›Calculation | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Slapping
Cultural Issues: Economy›Ledger | Gender›Chivalry | Violence›Dueling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Values›Honor
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 275 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Absalom, Absalom!, 276 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Cultural Issues: Clothes | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Absalom, Absalom!, 277 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Military›Retreat
Cultural Issues: Religion›Damnation | Sexuality›Incest | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Illusion
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Duke John of Lorraine | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 278 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Military›Retreat
Cultural Issues: Religion›God | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 279 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Terror | Verbal›Warning | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Race
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Story-telling›Retelling | Supernatural›Haunted house
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift
Absalom, Absalom!, 28 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Labor | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mosquitoes | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 281 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Shiloh | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 283 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Solitary
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Johnston, Joseph E. | Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 284 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Military›Retreat | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Ultimatum
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Sexuality›Incest | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 286 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Physical›Carrying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 288 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Race | Region›The South | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Character›Principle | Recurring Tropes›Glory | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Gettysburg | Allusion, Geographical›University of Mississippi | Allusion, Historical›Pickett's Charge | Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh
Absalom, Absalom!, 29 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Rumor | Violent›Fighting | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Absalom, Absalom!, 29 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Work›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creation | Character›Artist | Character›Ruthless | Character›Vanity | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Absalom, Absalom!, 291 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Impatience
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Supernatural›Haunted house | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Absalom, Absalom!, 293 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Place›Decayed plantation
Actions: Emotional›Impatience
Themes and Motifs: Death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Haunted house
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional›Painting
Absalom, Absalom!, 294 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stairway
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Gender›Masculine woman | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Skin | Objects›Keys | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Haunted house
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Absalom, Absalom!, 298 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Physical›Discovering | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 41 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Crying
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Absalom, Absalom!, 46 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom
Themes and Motifs: Death | Recurring Tropes›Destiny | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Absalom, Absalom!, 53 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion | Character›Regal | Recurring Tropes›Performance
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Personification
Absalom, Absalom!, 54 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Movement›Carriage
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Dolls | Recurring Tropes›Illusion | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Styx | Figures of Speech›Butterfly
Absalom, Absalom!, 56 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Economy›Wealth | Materialism›Status
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Performance
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Stage manager | Figures of Speech›Woodpile
Absalom, Absalom!, 58 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War as point of reference
Themes and Motifs: Character›Vanity | Recurring Tropes›Destiny
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Water
Absalom, Absalom!, 59 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Frustration
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Recurring Tropes›Illusion
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Picture/image
Absalom, Absalom!, 60 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Illusion | Recurring Tropes›Performance
Absalom, Absalom!, 66 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Appearance›Cosmetics | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death›Deathbed | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people | Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Figures of Speech›Moth | Symbolism›Blood
Absalom, Absalom!, 67 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Renounce
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Moth | Narrative›Anticipation
Absalom, Absalom!, 70 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Architecture | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Bonnet | Clothes›Shawl
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Keys | Objects›Parasol | Objects›Umbrella | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Absalom, Absalom!, 71 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Veranda | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Random | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Absalom, Absalom!, 72 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Ambivalence | Moral›Renounce | Verbal›Denial
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Recurring Tropes›Destiny | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Relationships: Friendship
Absalom, Absalom!, 76 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Love | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Horse | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Clothes›Cloak | Clothes›Gown | Clothes›Hat | Gender›Cross-dress | Group Mentality›Community collective | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Maturity | Character›Provincialism | Character›Sophistication | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male attraction
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›University of Mississippi | Allusion, Literary›Arabian Nights | Figures of Speech›Talisman
Absalom, Absalom!, 79 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Supernatural›Telepathy
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Desert island | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Absalom, Absalom!, 81 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Objet d'art | Recurring Tropes›Performance
Absalom, Absalom!, 81 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Education›Law school
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Lothario
Absalom, Absalom!, 82 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Suspicion | Perceptual›Investigating | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana
Absalom, Absalom!, 83 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Love
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Absalom, Absalom!, 83 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Love | Movement›Horse | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Silence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Absalom, Absalom!, 85 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Seduction | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Imitation | Supernatural›Spell | Values›Devotion
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Friendship
Absalom, Absalom!, 87 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Moral›Corrupting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive | Cultural Identity›Puritan | Economy›Wealth | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Photography | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 89 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Ritual›Initiation | Violence›Dueling
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Character›Provincialism | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Friendship | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Medical / Surgical
Absalom, Absalom!, 90 (Event)
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Moral›Corrupting
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality›Prostitution | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Provincialism | Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Friendship | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Absalom, Absalom!, 91 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation | Moral›Corrupting | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Race›White race | Religion›Godhead | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality›Prostitution | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Body›Hair | Character›Gambler | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Philosophical›Evolution | Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Friendship | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Seed
Absalom, Absalom!, 94 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Commodity | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fatality
Relationships: Friendship | Interracial›Marriage
Absalom, Absalom!, 94 (Event)
Actions: Military›Enlistment
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Values›Providence
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Bull Run
Absalom, Absalom!, 95 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits | Character›Power | Recurring Tropes›Fatality
Absalom, Absalom!, 99 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Solitary
As I Lay Dying, 107 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Place›Church | Place›Road
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Indecision | Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Persuasion
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs
As I Lay Dying, 11 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Appearance of
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
As I Lay Dying, 121 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Relationships: Familial›Sibling
As I Lay Dying, 122 (Event)
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
As I Lay Dying, 128 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
As I Lay Dying, 129 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Exhaustion | Emotional›Jealousy | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
As I Lay Dying, 130 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Jealousy | Moral›Deception | Verbal›Revealing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Love | Values›Truth/Lies
As I Lay Dying, 131 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender | Sexuality›Experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Marital›Adultery
As I Lay Dying, 132 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
As I Lay Dying, 133 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Milking | Movement›Following | Verbal›Silence | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
As I Lay Dying, 134 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›November
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Economic›Purchase | Mental›Discovery | Moral›Deception | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Labor›Farming | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Money›Expenses | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Responsibility | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse | Marital›Adultery
As I Lay Dying, 141 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Water moving / flowing | Public›Bridge
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Regret | Verbal›Banter / small talk
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
As I Lay Dying, 172 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Nature
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Pregnancy | Moral›Deception
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Geese | Character›Duty | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Liminal | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Naming | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood | Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Figures of Speech›Violent in figurative sense
As I Lay Dying, 174 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Woods
Cultural Issues: Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Meaninglessness | Meaning›Paternity | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Language
As I Lay Dying, 180 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones
Themes and Motifs: Death›Like death | Objects›Construction tools | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 194 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Counting | Physical›Protection
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Medicine
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Character›Forbearance | Death›Coffin | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish
As I Lay Dying, 206 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Tone›Absurdist | Tone›Farce
As I Lay Dying, 215 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 215 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Counting
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 217 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Physical›Discovering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Recurring Tropes›Secret
As I Lay Dying, 223 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 225 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
As I Lay Dying, 226 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Mass Media›Telephone | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death›Burial | Death›Respect | Philosophical›Reduction / summing up | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
As I Lay Dying, 232 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Charge/accuse | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Economy›Evaluate exchange value | Economy›Property | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Divine plan | Death›Burial | Philosophical›Ethics | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson | Values›Propriety
As I Lay Dying, 235 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Music
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Graphophone
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Phonograph | Recurring Tropes›Secret
As I Lay Dying, 237 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
As I Lay Dying, 237 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Self-doubt | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental illness | Violence›Ambush
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Capture as loss | Recurring Tropes›Laughter as sign of madness | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Delayed revelation
As I Lay Dying, 249 (Event)
Environment: Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Objects›Toys | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 250 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Absence/Loss›Substitute | Animals›Cows | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people | Language›Profanity | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
As I Lay Dying, 254 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Laughter as sign of madness
Aesthetics: Language›yes Yes Yes yes
As I Lay Dying, 27 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Without words | Mental›Channeling
Themes and Motifs: Death | Recurring Tropes›Door | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Sibling
As I Lay Dying, 3 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Sawing | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Time of Year›July
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Collaborative narration | Narrative›First-person passim | Style›Cubism
As I Lay Dying, 51 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Sawing
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Dipping snuff
Cultural Issues: Religion›Piety
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Character›Opportunism | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
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, 65 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Interaction, Private›Interrogation | Physical›Confining | Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Familial
As I Lay Dying, 66 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Sawing
Actions: Physical›Confining | Verbal›Denial
Cultural Issues: Religion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
As I Lay Dying, 75 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Auditory›Silence | Olfactory›Sulfur | Weather›Rain | Weather›Storm
Actions: Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
As I Lay Dying, 86 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Death | Recurring Tropes›Door
As I Lay Dying, 94 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Taunt
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Buzzards | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Flags in the Dust, 142 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Playing music | Bodily›Singing | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traditional music
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cerberus | Description›Delayed decoding | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 19 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Health and Illness›Deaf
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Horses | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Pipe | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Flags in the Dust, 242 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Interracial
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | Race›Disenfranchisement
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Flags in the Dust, 258 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Flags in the Dust, 270 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Drooling | Bodily›Watching | Emotional›Rage | Emotional›Terror | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Beating | Violent›Dragging | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft | Health and Illness›Insomnia | Sexuality›Fantasy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Language›Ah-Ah-Ah
Flags in the Dust, 299 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Hunting | Physical›Cuddling
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Flags in the Dust, 299 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Kissing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Flags in the Dust, 310 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Incomprehension
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Flags in the Dust, 310 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Legal›Divorce | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Nickname | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Reno, Nevada | Allusion, Mythical›Lethe | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Tone›Overwrought | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Flags in the Dust, 323 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Grayness | Time of Year›December
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Disgust with sex
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Disembodiment | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Sexual›Desertion
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Flags in the Dust, 331 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking | Domestic Space›Log house | Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Fox | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Flags in the Dust, 332 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Mental›Flashback
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 334 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Mask
Flags in the Dust, 334 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Death›Car accident | Memory›Sensory memory | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Relationships: Familial›