Keywords
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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2337 | Doom | Recurring Tropes | ||
2343 | Dead time | Recurring Tropes | ||
2366 | Imitation | Recurring Tropes | ||
2383 | Secret | Recurring Tropes | ||
2398 | Eternal feminine | Recurring Tropes | ||
2453 | Searching | Recurring Tropes | ||
2474 | Hands in pockets | Recurring Tropes | ||
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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2592 | Solitary | Recurring Tropes | ||
2607 | Sound of a gunshot | Recurring Tropes | ||
2609 | Touch | Recurring Tropes | ||
2622 | Mediation | Recurring Tropes |
Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC |
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2623 | Fairy-tale | Recurring Tropes | ||
2625 | Echo | Recurring Tropes | ||
2626 | Reality | Recurring Tropes | ||
2631 | Restoration / rebuilding | 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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2653 | Odor | Recurring Tropes | ||
2659 | Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes | ||
2671 | Dream turns to dust | Recurring Tropes | ||
2876 | Sleeping in same bed | Recurring Tropes |
For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP |
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2946 | Recovery | Recurring Tropes | ||
2978 | Smelled like trees | Recurring Tropes | ||
3043 | Sending someone to Jackson | Recurring Tropes | ||
3064 | Shadows | Recurring Tropes | ||
3271 | Little sister | Recurring Tropes | ||
3279 | Father said | Recurring Tropes | ||
3417 | Vitality | Recurring Tropes | ||
3418 | Stillness | Recurring Tropes | ||
3539 | Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes | ||
3746 | Sole owner and proprietor | 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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4209 | Apparition | Recurring Tropes | ||
4210 | Vanishing | Recurring Tropes | ||
4216 | Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes | ||
4236 | Dark house | Recurring Tropes | ||
4349 | Design | Recurring Tropes | ||
4367 | Revenge | Recurring Tropes | ||
4398 | Reunion | Recurring Tropes | ||
4399 | Glory | Recurring Tropes | ||
4483 | Laughter as sign of madness | Recurring Tropes | ||
4905 | Killing first deer/marked with blood | Recurring Tropes | ||
4910 | Year the stars fell | Recurring Tropes |
Added to refer to Faulkner's reference in at least two texts to 1833, "the year the stars fell" (in Appendix and in Go Down, Moses). Seems to refer to an actual historical event of a massive meteor shower that year which many interpreted as an omen, possibly even of end of times. Here is one article referencing the event: https://www.ancestry.com/contextux/historicalinsights/night-stars-fell-m.... JBP |
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5329 | Right-of-way | Recurring Tropes |
Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR |
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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 |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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948 | Lost Cause | Region | ||
1155 | The South | Region |
When a narrator or character explicitly foregrounds the region as distinctive, problematic, or otherwise noteworthy. JW |
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1219 | Hospitality | Region | ||
1574 | The West | Region | ||
1582 | North | Region | ||
1652 | Reconstruction | Region | ||
2712 | Rural South | Region | ||
4830 | Hapless Yankees | Region | ||
5182 | New England | Region | ||
961 | Godhead | Religion | ||
1471 | Bible | Religion | ||
1479 | Amulet | Religion | ||
1592 | Totem | Religion | ||
1641 | Baptist | Religion | ||
1642 | Episcopal | Religion | ||
1780 | Sin | Religion | ||
1929 | Institutional | Religion | ||
1935 | Sabbath | Religion | ||
1971 | Piety | Religion | ||
2106 | Methodism | Religion | ||
2137 | Challenge | Religion |
When characters actively set themselves at odds with a religious deity or institution, such as when Jewel in AILD gripes, "if there is a God what the hell is He for." EP |
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2347 | African American | Religion |
Religion with regard to either African-Americans or the African-American community. The particular example here is of Lucius Priest in the The Reivers who imagines a "Negro" sermonizing about a moral decision. R 61.8. JB |
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2456 | Social welfare as substitute | Religion | ||
2775 | Chistian Scientist | Religion | ||
2798 | Mason | Religion |
Although the Masons are explicitly not a religion, as a secret fraternal order they do represent a belief system. I have placed them under religion for the time being, until we figure out a better place. JB |
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2807 | Islam | Religion | ||
2808 | Catholicism | Religion | ||
3009 | Deist | Religion | ||
3074 | Religious faith | Religion | ||
3102 | Relationship with God | Religion | ||
3109 | Divine judgment | Religion | ||
3137 | Preacher / Minister | Religion | ||
3273 | Religious art or iconography | Religion | ||
3298 | Church service | Religion | ||
3328 | Damnation | Religion | ||
3331 | Resurrection | Religion | ||
3612 | God | Religion | ||
3613 | Sacrilege | 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 |
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3715 | Hinduism | Religion | ||
3876 | Apotheosis | Religion | ||
4254 | Rituals and rites | Religion | ||
4354 | Voodoo | Religion | ||
4453 | Free Will | Religion | ||
4454 | camp meeting | Religion | ||
4456 | Heresy | Religion | ||
4458 | Blessing | Religion | ||
4463 | Consolation | Religion | ||
4515 | Christianity | Religion | ||
4517 | Sermon | Religion | ||
4554 | Judaism | Religion | ||
4555 | Presbyterian | Religion | ||
4556 | Atheism | Religion | ||
4596 | Communion | Religion | ||
4655 | Uncharitable | Religion |