Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
4864 Scarcity Food
4992 Dependable Food
5143 Crackers Food
5172 Pie Food
5179 Peas Food
5315 Gum Food

Chewing gum
5493 Coca-Cola Food
5512 Animal crackers Food
5618 Brunswick stew Food
5642 Sandwich Food
5653 Milk Food
5677 Biscuits Food
5678 Greens Food
5679 Buttermilk Food
5709 Spaghetti Food
5730 Peach Food
5761 Steak Food
5773 Potato Food
5801 Corn Food
5802 Ginger snaps Food
322 Reproduction Gender
323 Marriage Gender
561 Women Gender
585 Masculinity Gender
638 Men vs women Gender
639 Femininity Gender
662 Chivalry Gender
807 War Gender
924 Southern woman Gender
1272 Masculine woman Gender
1365 Maternal impulse Gender
1477 Female intuition Gender

This is any event in which women are able to "intuit" gender relationships. The case in point is in My Grandmother Millard where Granny intuits the budding relationship between Melisandre and Cousin Phillip. Although the projection is certainly Faulkner's, it ties into broader nineteenth and twentieth century patriarchal notions of feminine intuition. Joost Burgers
1523 Patriarchy Gender
1640 Body Gender
1643 Clothing Gender
1655 Widow Gender
1791 Traits Gender

Indicates when a particular quality is attributed to a character on the basis of their gender, such as when Miss Belle Worsham is described as possessing "some old, timeless, female affinity for blood and grief" (p. 261) in "Go Down, Moses." BR
1845 Bachelor Gender
1945 Inversion Gender
2267 Labor Gender
2294 Changing relationships Gender

Any time the changing norms and values surrounding gender are commented upon. JB
2364 Cross-dress Gender
2619 Transsexuality Gender
2816 Sexual Harassment Gender
2842 Separate spaces Gender

Not the most refined word for this concept, but essentially different spaces in which women and men can move. This is not like segregation or separate spheres, rather existing social norms that prevent, generally women, from entering certain spaces like hotels, saloons, bootleg joints, etc. JB
2872 All-male space Gender
2873 Work Gender
3052 Idealization Gender
3083 Male domination Gender
3458 Taste Gender
3481 Female stereotype Gender
3622 Lady Gender
3688 Chauvinism / Misogyny Gender
3730 Sexual double standard Gender

For when a text makes references to the double standards between men and women; also can apply to double standard for women - Madonna/whore (or virgin/whore). Added for when Mrs Compson posits that a woman is either a lady or not (referring to Caddy and her dishonor). JBP
3748 Bitch Gender
3829 Chastity / purity Gender
3887 Mama's boy Gender
3888 New Woman Gender
3939 Stereotype librarian / school teacher Gender
3945 Menstruation / menstrual cycle Gender
3950 Women as gentler sex / delicate Gender
3953 Women as mysterious / secretive Gender
3968 Dirty girl Gender
3983 Male body Gender
3991 Female body Gender
4006 Feminine man Gender
4140 Black women Gender
4438 Flapper Gender
4622 Male rivalry Gender
4635 Double standard Gender
4643 Male gaze Gender
4672 Fluidity Gender
4696 And religion Gender
4701 Women as sacred Gender
4833 Lady's accoutrements Gender
5262 Male rescuer Gender
5263 Female in peril Gender
5324 Woman smoking Gender
5326 makeup Gender
5371 Gentleman Gender
5443 And marriage Gender
5786 Ungendered Gender

In The Hamlet Houston and Mrs Littlejohn are referred to as "ungendered" (216). The phrasing is curious, but the implication is that they do not have genders. This may the only time this occurs in Faulkner, but it is still worth mentioning. JB
5789 Women as aggressive Gender
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
1298 Childhood friends Friendship
1631 Racial Friendship

I did not create this definition, but I read this as friendships that occur by virtue of people being of the same race. For example, Ned and Ephum in the Reivers are surrounded by white people and form friendship. Not sure how this term is meant to be used though. JB
2361 Male-male attraction Friendship
2590 Male-male relationship Friendship
2782 Interracial Friendship
2799 Adult friends Friendship
2892 Adult-child Friendship
3274 College roommate Friendship
3306 College companions / classmates Friendship
3557 School classmates Friendship
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
1345 When will it stop Futility
3162 Failure to defend honor Futility
3172 Illusion of success or victory Futility
4218 Nothing to do Futility

"There's nothing else I can do now," Elly thinks (207). Reaching a point where no further options or ways forward can be imagined.
4641 Inability Futility
5023 In battle Futility
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
501 Tall tale Genre Conventions

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