Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
2583 Race Alcohol

These are racial issues specifically related to alcohol. For example, Minnie in The Reivers declines to drink with too many white people at once (113). There are also other issues around the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol that cut across racial lines. I thought it was more appropriate to place this here rather than in the race category within cultural issues, as that is already getting full, and becomes the alcohol predominates here. JB
3705 Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking Alcohol
2988 Sobriety Alcohol
5334 Store-bought vs moonshine Alcohol
2774 Teetotaling Alcohol

Teetotaling as a cultural issue or as a personal moral or habitual choice. This is different than "teetotaler" under character, which is the defining character trait of that person. The example here is Minnie in The Reivers who works in a brothel, but is a teetotaler because she is a "damn christian scientist or republican or something" (153). In this sense, it is not her defining character trait. JB
3799 Toddy Alcohol
4096 Traditional southern drink Alcohol
4676 Wanting a drink Alcohol
724 Whiskey Alcohol
2228 Wine Alcohol
4106 Wine hamper Alcohol
1178 Corn Agriculture
1179 Cotton Agriculture
5488 Crop dusting Agriculture
3227 Diminishing farms Agriculture
3634 Farming Agriculture
1154 Farming life Agriculture
5335 Furnish bill Agriculture
5331 Government regulations Agriculture
2348 Grist mill Agriculture

This is for any general discussion of grist mills as a farm implement. JB
2970 Hay Agriculture
3204 Hill farms Agriculture
4994 Household gardening Agriculture
2587 Husbandry Agriculture

Any part of a text related to the care and breeding of animals. The immediate context for this is on an actual farm, as for example Mink's attempt to breed his cow with a local bull. It also extends out to any knowledge of animals for the purposes of domestication or labor. For example, Lucius Priest being able to identify a horse as "three-quarters-bred" in The Reivers, though the horse itself is not on a farm. JB
4907 Livestock Agriculture
5533 Lumber trade Agriculture
4875 Market gardening Agriculture
2971 Matched team of horses or mules Agriculture
5305 Ownership Agriculture
5332 Regulations Agriculture
3678 Salt lick Agriculture
3203 Share-cropping|Tenantry Agriculture

There are significant differences between "share-cropping" and "tenant farming" in reality. "Tenants" typically furnished their own farming tools and livestock, and had at least a measure of control over what crops they planted on land they rented from a landlord; "share-croppers" typically only contributed their own labor, with the landlord dictating what they would raise and providing the animals and tools they used. But in his fiction Faulkner does not maintain this distinction, using the terms as essentially synonymous. SR
1176 Soil quality Agriculture
3206 Tractors Agriculture
923 Adolescence Age
5606 Agelessness Age
2965 Baby Age
1288 Childhood Age
4279 Coming of age Age
4973 Generation gap Age
771 Growing old Age
1306 Maturing Age
4420 Middle age Age
1617 Old age Age
1188 Premature aging Age
2940 Rite of passage Age

Any challenge or ritualized moment in which a person goes from child to adult. The other option here is coming of age, but felt like a more passive, ambiguous movement over time, when what is meant here is someone having an active, singular moment in which he or she becomes an adult. For example, Lucius winning the horse race in The Reivers (274). JB
541 Spinsterhood Age
812 War Age
650 Youth Age
4651 Youth vs age Age
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
5290 Child labor Agricultural
1212 Chopping Agricultural
2260 Cotton picking Agricultural
1833 Farming Agricultural
5234 Ginning cotton Agricultural
5572 Hay-making Agricultural
5532 Hog farming Agricultural
4751 Incompetent farming Agricultural
1868 Livestock care Agricultural
5267 Milking a cow Agricultural
5337 Planting Agricultural
1130 Plowing Agricultural
5237 Raising|shipping cattle Agricultural
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
910 Abandonment Absence/Loss
1327 Absence Absence/Loss
617 Absence as disguise Absence/Loss

This was created to note Flem Snopes' calculated absence during the horse auction, the way he has orchestrated it from behind the scene. I'm not sure this occurs with anyone but Flem, but it occurs multiple times in his case. SR
1331 Absence as loss Absence/Loss
5275 Absence as presence Absence/Loss
4512 Absence of sound Absence/Loss
3448 Aloneness Absence/Loss

As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP
2460 Attempt to find substitute Absence/Loss
3416 Blame Absence/Loss
3186 Burning a town Absence/Loss
1385 Capture as loss Absence/Loss
764 Deracination Absence/Loss
1725 Disappearance Absence/Loss
1141 Kinlessness Absence/Loss

I chose this term because it includes orphanhood but isn't limited to it. JW
1968 Livestock Absence/Loss
3826 Losing vs never having Absence/Loss

Added for when Quentin makes the observation, about a man who castrated himself, "It's not not having them. It's never to have had them." I believe similar ideas crop up elsewhere in Faulkner - distinguishing between having and losing, or never having in the first place. JBP
2089 Loss of animal companion Absence/Loss
3132 Loss of innocence Absence/Loss
2450 Loss of object Absence/Loss
871 Material Absence/Loss
805 Men Absence/Loss
3188 Military defeat Absence/Loss
4148 Missing Absence/Loss
1282 Money|Wealth Absence/Loss
3117 Of loved one Absence/Loss
756 Over time Absence/Loss
5230 Quest to recover Absence/Loss
4836 Racial Absence/Loss
4800 Red necks Absence/Loss
707 Renewal Absence/Loss
1741 Separation Absence/Loss
4418 Substitute Absence/Loss
1000 Vanishing Indian Absence/Loss
821 War Absence/Loss
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
331 Atmospheric (First level term)
332 Auditory (First level term)
692 Corn-planting time (First level term)

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