Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
4440 Plane accident Death
4441 Epitaph Texts
4444 rubber tree Objects
4447 Alienation from nature Exile
4457 Maternity Meaning
4460 Helpless Character
4462 Denial Death
4469 Insect boll weevil Animals
4476 Family honor Values
4477 Money order Money
4478 Self-righteousness Character
4479 Superhuman strength Character
4483 Laughter as sign of madness Recurring Tropes
4484 stoic Character
4503 Swallows Animals
4509 Bluejays Animals
4510 Firewood Objects
4511 Emptiness Chaos/Order
4512 Absence of sound Absence/Loss
4513 As symbol Money

I added this term for when money is representative of something, like Chick's shame in Intruder. LW
4514 Pear tree Objects
4516 Saw Objects
4525 Improvements Home
4528 Prosthetic Body
4534 Wasting Money
4535 Animal mule Death
4537 Giraffe Animals
4538 Broom Objects
4539 Rope Objects
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
4442 Battle of Ronceavaux Pass Allusion, Historical
4443 Chess Figures of Speech
4445 Temporal discontinuity Narrative

When narrative relates events in achronological order, i.e. event3 followed by event1 followed by event2, etc. Cf. opening paragraph of Sanctuary. SR
4446 Dehumanizing Figures of Speech

Narrative/narrator uses a metaphor that dehumanizes a character. Popeye "had that vicious depthless quality of stamped tin," in Sanctuary.
4448 Madame Bovary Allusion, Literary
4451 Battle of Lookout Mountain Allusion, Historical
4475 Leprosy Allusion, Biblical
4492 Einstein, Albert Allusion, Historical
4494 Virgil Allusion, Literary
4495 Nicaragua Allusion, Geographical
4499 Pocahontas Allusion, Historical
4500 Capone, Al Allusion, Historical
4506 Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee Allusion, Geographical
4507 Color maroon Description
4508 Color purple Description
4518 Egypt Allusion, Geographical
4519 Russia Allusion, Geographical
4520 Drawing of an eye Typography/Orthography
4522 Cicero Allusion, Literary
4527 Donne, John Allusion, Literary
4529 Herrick, Robert Allusion, Literary
4530 Campion, Thomas Allusion, Literary
4531 Jonson, Ben Allusion, Literary
4532 Messalina Allusion, Historical
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
4449 Modernist style Modernity

When text makes fairly explicit reference to "modernism" as a movement, like the cubistic bug in As I Lay Dying or the modernist lampstand in Sanctuary. SR
4453 Free Will Religion
4454 camp meeting Religion
4456 Heresy Religion
4458 Blessing Religion
4459 As anaesthetic Alcohol
4463 Consolation Religion
4464 Missing school Education
4465 Car tire Technology
4466 Infection Health and Illness
4468 Easter Ritual
4470 Anti-Semitism Prejudice
4471 Economic speculation Economy
4474 Leprosy Health and Illness
4480 Evaluate exchange value Economy
4482 Graphophone Mass Media
4488 Transatlantic migration History
4489 Honky-Tonks Entertainment
4490 Perverse Sexuality
4491 Drugs Health and Illness
4493 Pornography Sexuality
4496 Telegraph Progress
4498 Medicine aspirin Health and Illness
4502 Patent medicine Health and Illness
4505 Smallpox Health and Illness
4515 Christianity Religion
4517 Sermon Religion
4533 Typewriter Technology
Vocabulary: Environment
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
4450 Smelling black Olfactory
4481 Music Auditory
4497 Telegraph office Public
4504 Easter Time of Year
4524 Poolhall Public
4526 Ritual Domestic Space
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
4452 Favoritism Familial
4455 Pastor-congregant Hierarchical
4461 Man-fish Interspecies
4486 Parent-child Hierarchical
4523 Extramarital Sexual
Vocabulary: Actions
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
4467 Receiving mail Communication
4472 Child support Economic
4473 Asking for money Economic
4485 Fraud Moral
4487 Transactional Economic
4501 Denial Emotional
4521 Saving money Economic
4536 Insurance payment Economic

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