Keywords

Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
3454 Flirtation Romantic
4692 Infidelity Romantic
3185 Love at first sight Romantic
4307 Multiple Romantic

I created this term for Gavin Stevens's multiple romantic relationships in Knight's Gambit to capture the emotional rather than sexual nature of his attachments.--LW

5487 Potential Romantic
3104 Sexual Romantic
2947 Unrequited Romantic
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
2209 Birthday Ritual
4805 Cemetery decorations Ritual
3529 Christmas gift game Ritual
3542 Christmas holiday traditions Ritual
4737 Civic Ritual
2751 Commemoration Ritual
5092 Drinking Ritual
2395 Dueling Ritual
4468 Easter Ritual
1632 Funeral Ritual
2199 Funeral arrangements Ritual
3702 Holiday Ritual
5447 Holiday dinner Ritual
758 Hunting Ritual
1628 Initiation Ritual
3716 Sati or suttee Ritual
4406 Visit Ritual
5620 Wedding Ritual
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

1479 Amulet Religion
4857 And class Religion
3876 Apotheosis Religion
4556 Atheism Religion
5383 Baptism Religion
1641 Baptist Religion
1471 Bible Religion
4458 Blessing Religion
4454 camp meeting Religion
2808 Catholicism 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

2775 Chistian Scientist Religion
4515 Christianity Religion
3298 Church service Religion
4596 Communion Religion
4463 Consolation Religion
3328 Damnation Religion
3009 Deist Religion
3109 Divine judgment Religion
1642 Episcopal Religion
5153 Fanaticism Religion
5103 Folk superstition Religion
4820 Forgiveness Religion
4453 Free Will Religion
3612 God 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

961 Godhead Religion
4456 Heresy Religion
3715 Hinduism Religion
4684 Hymns Religion
1929 Institutional Religion
2807 Islam Religion
4554 Judaism Religion
4753 Lay preacher Religion
5476 Martyrdom 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

2106 Methodism Religion
1971 Piety Religion
5452 Pre-Christian Religion
3137 Preacher / Minister Religion
4555 Presbyterian Religion
4771 Providence Religion
5003 Race Religion
5322 Rebirth Religion

Rebirth as either a goal or a result of Christianity. In this particular case, Uncle Willy's church wants him to be reborn in "Uncle Willy". (232

5560 Redemption Religion
3102 Relationship with God Religion
3273 Religious art or iconography Religion
3074 Religious faith Religion
3331 Resurrection Religion
4858 Revelation Religion
4254 Rituals and rites Religion
1935 Sabbath Religion
3613 Sacrilege Religion
5561 Salvation Religion
5358 Sect Religion
4517 Sermon Religion
1780 Sin Religion
2456 Social welfare as substitute Religion
5288 Sunday school Religion
1592 Totem Religion
4655 Uncharitable Religion
4354 Voodoo Religion
4830 Hapless Yankees Region
1219 Hospitality Region
948 Lost Cause Region
5182 New England Region
1582 North Region
1652 Reconstruction Region
2712 Rural South Region
1155 The South Region

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

1574 The West Region
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending 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

4216 Apotheosis Recurring Tropes
4209 Apparition Recurring Tropes

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