Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
948 Lost Cause Region
1155 The South Region

When a narrator or character explicitly foregrounds the region as distinctive, problematic, or otherwise noteworthy. JW

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

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

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

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

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

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