Keywords
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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845 | Sexual power | Recurring Tropes | ||
867 | Gossip | Recurring Tropes | ||
873 | Upward mobility | Recurring Tropes | ||
875 | Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes | ||
1024 | Twilight | Recurring Tropes | ||
1032 | Gaze | Recurring Tropes | ||
1177 | Endurance | Recurring Tropes | ||
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 |
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1256 | Going fast | Recurring Tropes | ||
1259 | Tomorrow and tomorrow | Recurring Tropes | ||
1332 | Nothingness | Recurring Tropes | ||
1352 | Life as repetition | Recurring Tropes | ||
1541 | Scandal | Recurring Tropes | ||
1923 | Paradox | Recurring Tropes | ||
1927 | Fatality | Recurring Tropes | ||
1933 | Sun / Sunlight | Recurring Tropes | ||
1948 | Threshold | Recurring Tropes | ||
1950 | Triumph | Recurring Tropes | ||
1982 | Belatedness | Recurring Tropes | ||
1985 | Open secret | Recurring Tropes |
Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB |
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2023 | Dream | Recurring Tropes | ||
2030 | Solitude | Recurring Tropes | ||
2181 | Precognition / Something to happen | Recurring Tropes |
For when a character precognitively senses or says that "something" is going to happen to him/her - e.g., Joe Christmas, Miss Zilphia Gant. JBP |
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2183 | Destiny | Recurring Tropes | ||
2204 | Confederate monument | Recurring Tropes | ||
2310 | Performance | Recurring Tropes | ||
2314 | Illusion | Recurring Tropes | ||
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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2244 | Recurring event, intratextual | Recurring Episodes |
When Faulkner refers to or re-writes an event more than once inside a single text, for example the four references to Caddy's muddy drawers in Benjy and Quentin's sections of The Sound and the Fury. SR |
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2245 | Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes |
When Faulkner in one text refers to or re-writes an event that also occurs in other text(s), for example the account of Miss Quentin climbing down the pear tree (in The Sound and the Fury) or the rain pipe (as the same event has it in the "Appendix" and The Mansion. SR |
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5024 | Old Bayard's death | Recurring Episodes | ||
5025 | Negro voting | Recurring Episodes | ||
5026 | Sartoris captures Yankees | Recurring Episodes | ||
5027 | Jenny arrives | Recurring Episodes | ||
5028 | Colonel Sartoris killed | Recurring Episodes | ||
5029 | Bayard avenges Johnny | Recurring Episodes | ||
5030 | Johnny Sartoris shot down | Recurring Episodes | ||
5031 | Byron robs bank | Recurring Episodes | ||
5032 | Young Bayard's death | Recurring Episodes | ||
5033 | Narcissa's anonymous letters | Recurring Episodes | ||
5034 | Benjy accosts schoolgirl | Recurring Episodes | ||
5035 | Miss Quentin runs away | Recurring Episodes | ||
5036 | Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes | ||
5037 | Texas horses auctioned | Recurring Episodes | ||
5038 | Burying Sartoris silver | Recurring Episodes | ||
5039 | Doom becomes chief | Recurring Episodes | ||
5040 | Sartoris builds railroad | Recurring Episodes | ||
5041 | Old Frenchman's arrival | Recurring Episodes | ||
5042 | First settlers arrive | Recurring Episodes | ||
5043 | Indian removal | Recurring Episodes | ||
5044 | Sartoris raises regiment | Recurring Episodes | ||
5045 | Sartoris deposed | Recurring Episodes | ||
5046 | Battle of Jefferson | Recurring Episodes | ||
5047 | Etching name on window | Recurring Episodes | ||
5048 | Buck and Buddy's experiment | Recurring Episodes | ||
5049 | Ringo whips Ab | Recurring Episodes |