Keywords

Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4963 Explanatory passage Interpretation
1661 Explorers Allusion, Historical
2287 Expression Figures of Speech

Any common expression, saying, or proverb that Faulkner uses. For example, "cat on a hot stove" or "sticks out like a horse in a duck pond." JB

915 Eyes Figures of Speech
1204 Eyes Description
1545 Face Figures of Speech
2611 Fantasy Narrative

Whenever a narrator engages in an event that she or he knows to be pure fantasy or wish fulfillment. JC

1370 Farce Tone
1278 Fate Allusion, Mythical
2802 Faulkner text Intertextuality
2300 Faustus Allusion, Literary
3789 Female monsters Allusion, Mythical
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
2261 Exploitation Moral
4299 Explosion Violent
5093 Exposure Interaction, Social
4251 Extinguishing fire Physical
1341 Exultation Emotional
4694 Factory Work
5483 Factory labor Economic
3553 Failing / Failure Mental
1318 Fainting Bodily
3642 Falling Bodily
3901 Familiarity Perceptual
1304 Family history Verbal
3327 Fantasizing Mental
1833 Farming Agricultural
813 Farming Work
4169 Fascination Emotional
4608 Fasting Bodily
4607 Fasting Physical
2263 Fatalism Mental
505 Fear Emotional
1236 Feeding Domestic
3078 Feeling pain Bodily
4996 Female gathering Interaction, Social
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4979 Exploitative Politics
1660 Explorers History
2959 Extortion Crime
850 Extra-marital Sexuality
1157 Eye for an eye Law

I opted for the more familiar phrase over "Talionic code of justice" to facilitate searching. JW

1772 Eyewitness Law
3867 Factory Progress
313 Family Slavery
4851 Family role Identity, Personal
5153 Fanaticism Religion
2915 Fancy Clothes
1447 Fantasy Mass Media

The fantasies generated in viewers, readers, or listeners by the mass media. What in "Dry September," in reference to Hollywood cinema, Faulkner calls "the silver dream." BR

3753 Fantasy Sexuality
3634 Farming Agriculture
1010 Farming Labor
1154 Farming life Agriculture
5552 Fear of sex Sexuality
5787 Fecundity Sexuality
5461 Federal Bureau of Investigation Government
1735 Federal laws and regulations Government
5555 Federal vs state crime Law
1360 Female Sexuality
3991 Female body Gender
2516 Female education Education
5263 Female in peril Gender
1477 Female intuition Gender

This is any event in which women are able to "intuit" gender relationships. The case in point is in My Grandmother Millard where Granny intuits the budding relationship between Melisandre and Cousin Phillip. Although the projection is certainly Faulkner's, it ties into broader nineteenth and twentieth century patriarchal notions of feminine intuition. Joost Burgers

Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1576 Extended family Familial
1573 Extra-marital Romantic
4523 Extramarital Sexual
1831 Fame Social
400 Familial (First level term)
5281 Family as shackle Familial
1067 Father in law-son in law Marital
565 Father-daughter Familial
514 Father-son Familial
4108 Father-son in law Familial
4452 Favoritism Familial
3764 Fellow alumni of a college or university Social
610 Female Intergenerational
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
2161 Eyeglasses Objects
3740 Eyelashes Body
584 Eyes Body
629 Face Body
3162 Failure to defend honor Futility
2623 Fairy-tale Recurring Tropes
2408 Faith Morals
2172 Faithfulness Values

Faithfulness as a general virtue, synonymous with fidelity and/or loyalty (unless others think those merit a separate keyword entry). Wasn't sure if this should go here or go also or instead under Actions > Emotions. JBP

1210 False name Naming
2857 Family history Past
4476 Family honor Values
5740 Family oral tradition Story-telling
4250 Family values Values

Not to be confused with the contemporary politically charged term. Rather, these are values shared by all or most members of the family. It's what your mamma or daddy taught you. JB and EP

2466 Fan Objects
4205 Farming tools Objects
1927 Fatality Recurring Tropes
2532 Fated Determinism

Created to describe a situation that seems meant to be, as when Susan Reed seems destined for Hawkshaw's barbershop in "Hair." --LW & BR

3279 Father said Recurring Tropes
3942 Fatness / obesity Appearance
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
5484 Factory|Plant Place
544 Fall Time of Year
4893 Familiar Atmospheric
866 Farm Place
881 Farm Place
1229 February Time of Year
3785 Fecundity / lushness Natural

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