Keywords
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5056 | Architect captured | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5046 | Battle of Jefferson | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5218 | Bayard and the lost generation | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5029 | Bayard avenges Johnny | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5034 | Benjy accosts schoolgirl | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5611 | Benjy castrated | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5204 | Benjy committed | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5036 | Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5053 | Boon shoots Negro | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5048 | Buck and Buddy's experiment | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5038 | Burying Sartoris silver | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5031 | Byron robs bank | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5055 | Byron Snopes' children | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5074 | Caddy's marriage ends | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5073 | Caddy's wedding | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5028 | Colonel Sartoris killed | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5208 | Compson land acquired | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5207 | Compsons sell pasture | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5058 | Confederate monument unveiled | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5213 | Confederate raid in Memphis | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5069 | De Spain creates camp | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5039 | Doom becomes chief | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5063 | Driving to Goodwin's | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5047 | Etching name on window | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5071 | Eula's medallion unveiled | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5042 | First settlers arrive | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5060 | Flem and Eula marry | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5215 | Flem reaches Jefferson | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5054 | General Compson's military record | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5210 | Harriss' death | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5068 | Henry kills Bon | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5070 | Houston murdered | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5075 | Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom" | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5043 | Indian removal | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5059 | Jefferson's first car | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5027 | Jenny arrives | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5030 | Johnny Sartoris shot down | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5061 | Looking upon evil | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5212 | Mannie Hait cashes check | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5211 | Mannie's death | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5072 | McCarron ambushed | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5035 | Miss Quentin runs away | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5051 | Nancy confronts white man | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5217 | Narcissa marries Bayard | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5033 | Narcissa's anonymous letters | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5025 | Negro voting | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5024 | Old Bayard's death | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5041 | Old Frenchman's arrival | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5220 | Plantation to housing development | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5067 | Popeye's execution | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5076 | Quentin's suicide | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 2245 | Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes |
When Faulkner in one text refers to or re-writes an event that also occurs in other text(s), for example the account of Miss Quentin climbing down the pear tree (in The Sound and the Fury) or the rain pipe (as the same event has it in the "Appendix" and The Mansion. SR |
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| 2244 | Recurring event, intratextual | Recurring Episodes |
When Faulkner refers to or re-writes an event more than once inside a single text, for example the four references to Caddy's muddy drawers in Benjy and Quentin's sections of The Sound and the Fury. SR |
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| 5050 | Rider in jail | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5049 | Ringo whips Ab | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5040 | Sartoris builds railroad | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5026 | Sartoris captures Yankees | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5045 | Sartoris deposed | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5078 | Sartoris escapes Yankees | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5044 | Sartoris raises regiment | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5057 | Sutpen rejects KKK | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5052 | Sutpen's arrival | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5064 | Temple at Goodwin's | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5065 | Temple at Reba's | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5062 | Temple leaves train | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5066 | Temple testifying | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5037 | Texas horses auctioned | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5665 | Tommy's murder | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5219 | Trying to kill Gualdres | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5631 | Wash charges posse | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5630 | Wash kills Sutpen | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5206 | Will Mayes lynched | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5032 | Young Bayard's death | Recurring Episodes |
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1202 | "Wait" | Recurring Tropes |
Spoken by a character to pause or slow down narration by another character so s/he can process the significance or take over the narration. The classic examples are from ABSALOM, but it's a signature verbal formula across Faulkner. JW |
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| 4216 | Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4209 | Apparition | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1982 | Belatedness | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3850 | Beyond | Recurring Tropes |
I added this keyword to mark places where a character or text contemplates or imagines exceeding ordinary or usual boundaries. Specifically, this was added for when Quentin starts imagining "a hell beyond that" for him and Caddy. It can be used when "beyond" or a similar construction is used in figurative ways. JBP |
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| 2511 | Chasing a person | Recurring Tropes |
For the many instances when a human being is hunted by others - the slave in "Red Leaves," the architect in Absalom!, Christmas several times in Light in August, Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, etc. SR |
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| 2204 | Confederate monument | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 5338 | Constitutive moment | Recurring Tropes |
A moment in a character's story when something happens that changes the arc of his or her life. For example, when in Absalom! Thomas Sutpen is turned away from the front door of that Tidewater plantation. Or in The Mansion, when Houston tells Mink Snopes he still owes the one dollar "pound fee" (28). SR |
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| 4236 | Dark house | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2343 | Dead time | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4349 | Design | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2183 | Destiny | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2337 | Doom | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 609 | Door | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2023 | Dream | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2671 | Dream turns to dust | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2625 | Echo | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1177 | Endurance | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2398 | Eternal feminine | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2623 | Fairy-tale | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1927 | Fatality | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3279 | Father said | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 875 | Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2651 | Fixation | Recurring Tropes |
The action or process of fixing or being fixed. For instance, In AA!, characters find themselves fixed in place, unable to move beyond something either spatially or conceptually. JC |
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| 1032 | Gaze | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4399 | Glory | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1256 | Going fast | Recurring Tropes |