Keywords

Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1473 Gallop Auditory
830 Gallows Place
5258 Gambling house Place
2281 Garage Domestic Space

Any structure used for the storage of a motor vehicle. In The Reivers this is continuously referred to as the "carriage house", but since it is now an automobile that it houses, I am calling it a garage. This might be more useful for scholars than carriage house. JB

1475 Garden Domestic Space
1777 Gas station Place
2063 Gasoline Olfactory
4667 Gate Place
1019 Gate Domestic Space
654 Gender stereotype Domestic Space
3205 Ghetto Place
1908 Gloom Atmospheric
2215 Golf course Public
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
2403 Gambler Character
2581 Gamecock Animals
5784 Garland Objects
2537 Gasoline Objects

Any time gasoline and fuel is mentioned as an object, not with regard to smell. It occurs a number of times in The Reivers as a fetishistic object of modernity. JB

5595 Gathering Community
1032 Gaze Recurring Tropes
3261 Geese Animals
5114 Gendered Determinism
5382 Generous Character
4878 Genetic Determinism
5613 Gestures Story-telling
4257 Getting away Home
1883 Ghost Supernatural
3149 Gift of money Money
4537 Giraffe Animals
4399 Glory Recurring Tropes
1201 Goat Animals
1256 Going fast Recurring Tropes
785 Going to Texas Recurring Tropes
1997 Gold Money
2559 Gold tooth Objects
2879 Golf ball Objects
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
577 Gambling Economy
1746 Gambling Crime
4066 Garment female Clothes
2826 Garter Clothes
3562 Gastrointestinal discomfort Health and Illness
240 Gender (First level term)
2933 Gendered Violence

A violent action in which the gender dynamic plays a salient feature. The specific example is Boon hitting Miss Corrie in The Reivers. JB

2042 Genealogy Race

Any time a character's possible racial ancestries is germane to the text. J. Burgers

4973 Generation gap Age
590 Generational reform Government
2989 Gentility Class
5371 Gentleman Gender
5441 Gentrification Progress
859 Gift Economy
2582 Gin Alcohol
5802 Ginger snaps Food
4091 Glasses Clothes
434 Global (First level term)
4561 Glorification War
1538 Glove Clothes
3612 God Religion
3614 God with human characteristics Religion

For when God is described as human-like -- added for when Quentin said God is "not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too." JBP

961 Godhead Religion
4659 Goggles Clothes
2520 Going to war War
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
937 Gambling Play
900 Gardening Work
2789 Gardening Physical
3383 Garrulousness Verbal

Created for Gavin Stevens--LW

2286 Gentleman's agreement Interaction, Social

Set of non-legally binding norms and values between two men. Distinct from Noblesse Oblige this is not class based, but gender based. Faulkner also uses this ironically at times. JB

4061 Getting a receipt Economic
4220 Getting closer Movement

When someone's thoughts during a journey are focused on the place they're heading for, either with excitement or dread or something in between. SR

1648 Getting water Work
2759 Getting water Physical
1109 Gifting Economic
5234 Ginning cotton Agricultural
4728 Giving advice Verbal
3443 Glassblowing Work
1552 Going to bed Bodily
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4348 Gambling imagery Figures of Speech
4351 Gaps Narrative
3285 Garden of Eden Allusion, Biblical
3410 Garibaldi, Giuseppe Allusion, Historical
5054 General Compson's military record Recurring Episodes
1895 Genesis Allusion, Biblical
409 Genre Conventions (First level term)
4385 Georgia Allusion, Geographical
4735 German Language
4311 Germany Allusion, Geographical
4332 Gethsemane Allusion, Biblical
3050 Gettysburg Allusion, Geographical
3587 Ghost Figures of Speech
3136 Ghost story Genre Conventions
4268 Gilbert and Sullivan Allusion, Literary
4925 Glasgow, Scotland Allusion, Geographical
3558 Glass Figures of Speech
4030 Glove Figures of Speech
2390 God / Jehovah Allusion, Biblical
3772 Gods Allusion, Mythical
4110 Goethe, Johann Allusion, Historical
2810 Goldwater, Barry Allusion, Historical
5775 Golgotha Allusion, Biblical
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4961 Gang Social
4126 Genealogy Familial
2434 Generational succession Ancestral

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