Keywords

Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
4315 Listening Communication
4375 Lack of communication Communication

To be used generally for any instance in which information is suppressed or not passed between individuals. This can apply to individuals sharing the same space or to communication across longer distances. JC

4425 Silence Communication
4467 Receiving mail Communication
4587 Engrave Communication
4592 Speaking Communication
4631 Joking Communication
4663 Miscommunication Communication
5126 Note Communication
5455 Language barriers Communication
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
539 Tradition Community
626 African-American Community
676 Social life Community
1596 Crowd Community
1666 Wedding Community
1920 Secrecy Community
2083 Posse Community
2331 Alienation Community
2429 Preserving order Community
2724 Carnival Community
3382 Local legends Community

I created this term in response to the local legend of Melisandre Backus Harriss that Chick inherits in "Knight's Gambit."--LW

3407 Parade Community
3411 Decoration Day Community
3437 Populace Community
3546 Opinion Community
3598 Conformity Community
3703 Columbus Day Community
4136 Knowledge Community
4424 Stranger Community

I'm thinking of the times when someone enters a community who is unknown and the collective community has suspicions about this character. A clear example would be Lena Grove. (jj)

4652 Ordinary Community
4748 Taboos Community
4783 Upliftment Community

Whenever a member of the community takes it upon him or herself to "uplift" the rest of the members of the community, whether they want to be uplifted or not. The specific example is John Sartoris in The Unvanquished who has grand plans for the people of Jefferson (223).

4856 Cooperation Community
5446 Supportive Community
5595 Gathering Community
5755 Stability Community

This particular term is in reference to The Hamlet where the Snopeses disrupt the natural order of things, but then the community of Frenchman's Bend returns to its old ways. It is a cycle of disruption and stability, where a return to normalcy is prized above all else. JB

5771 Acceptance Community
844 Future Death
931 Funeral Death
945 Response to Death
985 Indian burial practices Death
988 Execution Death
1349 In childbirth Death
1350 Car accident Death
1537 Suicide Death
1788 Corpse Death
1790 Coffin Death
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
592 Theft|Robbery Crime
596 Forgery Crime
722 Bootlegging Crime
750 Murder Crime
940 Breaking and entering Crime
968 Making whisky Crime
969 Manslaughter Crime
990 Penalty for Crime
1424 Vigilantism Crime

This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR

1746 Gambling Crime
1747 Vagrancy Crime
1909 Fratricide Crime
2001 Waistcoat Crime
2335 Looting Crime
2544 Cattle rustling Crime
2545 Commercial sexual exploitation Crime

Undoubtedly the more common term searched will be "prostitution". The aim of this term is to identify the crime being actively committed by the pimps and bordello madams. JB

2584 Bribe Crime

Any payoff to law enforcement or other institution to circumvent the strictures of the law. In The Reivers Lucius Priest refers to this as "blackmail" (112). This is meant ironically. JB

2959 Extortion Crime
2986 Prostitution Crime
2987 Drug addiction Crime
3063 Kidnapping Crime
3101 Blackmail Crime
3795 Embezzlement Crime
3838 Prevention Crime
3934 Moonshining Crime
4578 Horse theft Crime
4593 Car theft Crime
4594 Grave robbing Crime
4595 Innocence Crime
4634 Rape Crime
4714 Arson Crime
4780 Voter fraud Crime
4791 Interruption Crime
4877 Numbers Crime
4938 Sedition Crime
4939 Treason Crime
5013 And race Crime
5282 Racialized Crime
5316 Fraud Crime

This type of fraud is distinct from action: moral :: fraud in the sense that there are legal consequences. The specific example here is from "Death Drag" where Ginsfarb has a plane that is unlicensed and purchased a license from another plane that was allowed to fly thereby "compound[ing] another felony" (194). JHB

1730 America and opportunity Cultural Identity
1896 North vs South Cultural Identity
2388 Puritan Cultural Identity
2447 Anglophile Cultural Identity
3031 Lost Cause Cultural Identity
3195 American Cultural Identity
3207 Multiculturalism Cultural Identity
3661 Country vs city Cultural Identity
3663 Southern identity Cultural Identity
4698 Jewish Cultural Identity
4745 Outlander Cultural Identity
4819 Trans-regional Cultural Identity
4849 Savagism Cultural Identity
5375 And nationality Cultural Identity

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