Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
5601 Lighting Technology

For when a text makes explicit reference to electric lighting (as opposed to light from fires, candles, etc.) JBP

2529 Neon Technology
5514 Plastics Technology
4924 Printing Technology
4639 Public telephone Technology
5416 Race Technology

Whenever someone has a different interaction with technology because of their race. This is usually a Black character who is ignorant of modernity. In this example, it is Job in "Uncle Willy" who doesn't know how to use a telephone.

4316 Radio Technology
3386 Running water Technology
3590 Ship's wheel Technology
3586 Shipping schooner Technology
3585 Shipping tugboat Technology
3533 Steam locomotive Technology
5511 Steamboats Technology
4708 Streetcars Technology
5384 Telegraph Technology
2279 Telephone Technology
1664 Television Technology
4533 Typewriter Technology
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
4419 Accounts Texts
4847 Anthropological Texts
4818 Bible Texts
906 Case file Texts
745 Census Texts
4709 Christmas card Texts
4051 Citizenship papers Texts
1678 Civic records Texts
4815 Cook book Texts
4799 Death certificate Texts
1998 Deed Texts
4860 Drawing Texts
4441 Epitaph Texts
3173 Graffiti Texts
1731 Ledger Texts
1705 Letter of protest Texts
1343 Letters Texts
2721 Love letter Texts
4703 Magazine Texts
4044 Map Texts
3023 Military communications Texts
5393 Mottoes Texts
1709 Newspapers Texts
4668 Note Texts
5259 Notice Texts
3092 Novel Texts
4045 Plat Texts
5004 Poetry Texts
5692 Postcard Texts
5095 Poster Texts
5712 Satire Texts
4650 School book Texts
3000 Telegram Texts
4132 Title Texts
4871 Translation Texts
4601 Treaty Texts
4572 Will Texts
2880 Abrupt shift in time Time

For when a narrative makes an abrupt or unexpected shift in time - as in Benjy's narrative in S&F.

4950 And change Time
2749 Anticipation Time
3312 Awareness of time Time
3166 Being in time Time

Added to mark those moments when Quentin Compson explicitly refers to being "in" time -- subject to it, existing within it and unable to stop or evade its progression. This is opposite of course to those moments when he is "outside" of time and all that entails. JBP

3294 Being late / tardiness Time
3293 Being on time / punctuality Time
3167 Being outside of time Time
2013 Continuity Time

Any time the past is consonant with the present, or a tradition is passed on. For example, the Hampton's being Sheriffs is a historical continuity. JB

4281 Cyclical Time
3513 Duration of time Time
1932 Frozen / Static Time
2051 Future Time
2304 Just in time Time

Whenever a character arrives or performs an action, or event happens "just in time" or in the "nick of time." That is, there is narrative anticipation for time running out, but things are saved at the last moment. JB

1812 Living in the present Time

Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past.

2158 Long passage of time Time

Perhaps self-evident, but for when a text makes a huge jump in time very quickly -- Zilphia Gant sitting beside the window "for twelve years," for instance. JBP

4368 Lost time Time
3515 Measuring time Time
521 Past Time
2600 Permanence Time
2907 Return to present time Time
3463 Routine Time
1995 Running out Time
2964 Series of events experienced as long duration Time
4366 Simultaneity of time Time
3346 Timelessness Time
2527 Town clock Time
795 Transcended Time
1549 Travel back in time Time
4294 Unsynchronized clocks Time
633 Watch Time
2874 Working day Time
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
1022 Afternoon Time of Day
2714 Breakfast Time of Day
698 Dawn Time of Day
1856 Daybreak Time of Day
2069 Daytime Time of Day
1433 Dinner Time of Day
1060 Dusk Time of Day
5195 Eight o'clock a.m. Time of Day
5131 Eight o'clock p.m. Time of Day
4787 Eleven o'clock Time of Day
5149 Eleven o'clock p.m. Time of Day
2484 Evening Time of Day
5633 Five o'clock p.m. Time of Day

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