Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
309 Concubinage Slavery
2174 Conception/Conceiving a child Sexuality
3027 Compromise of 1850 History
4176 Competition Hunting and Fishing
4361 Compensation Law
507 Community collective Group Mentality

We created this term to denote any instance in which the community operates as a social body, collectively self-organizing to think or do something. Sometimes, this may be simply believing an idea collectively and, at others, it may entail acting together as in the crowd at the horse auction of The Hamlet. JC and JJ

1668 Community Food
5356 Communism History
4596 Communion Religion
2508 Communal story Group Mentality
287 Commodity Slavery
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

2540 Commerce Economy

Any moment in which the advent or nature of commerce is commented upon. In this instance, it is proto-capitalistic practices that take place as Yoknapatawpha moves from frontier to civilization. JB

2751 Commemoration Ritual
4279 Coming of age Age
2654 Coma Health and Illness
1853 Colorism Race
3524 Colored people as acceptable terminology Race
3015 Colonization History
3765 College or school traditions Education
4287 College life Education
3308 College class or lecture Education
2572 College Education
4574 Collective exploitation Land-Use

This is in reference to the system of governance Uncle Buck and Buddy setup on the McCaslin plantation with black and white working side side-by-side in large cooperative referenced in the Unvanquished (48-49). A similar system is enacted by Brother Goodhay in the Mansion. JB

3266 Collar Clothes
5362 Cold War History
3929 Coffee Food
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
1984 Concealment Interaction, Social

Any time a character hides something from his peer group or society at large. The particular instance here is John Powell concealing his pistol from the men in the livery stable.

5142 Concealing Physical
5494 Compulsion Mental
1084 Composing (First level term)
1273 Complaining Verbal
4609 Competition Interaction, Social
3933 Competition Economic
1083 Communication (First level term)
632 Command Verbal
2763 Comforting Emotional
2521 Combat Military
2867 Coldness Emotional
4321 Coercion Interaction, Private
3706 Code-switching / Change in dialect Verbal
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
5207 Compsons sell pasture Recurring Episodes
5208 Compson land acquired Recurring Episodes
586 Communal narrative Narrative
1852 Commentary Narrative
5090 Commandments Allusion, Biblical
2552 Comedy Genre Conventions
5531 Columbus, Mississippi Allusion, Geographical
3409 Columbus, Christopher Allusion, Historical
3873 Color yellow Description
3897 Color white Description
3144 Color red Description
4508 Color purple Description
3961 Color pink Description
3584 Color of leaf tobacco Description
4507 Color maroon Description
4075 Color lilac Description
3786 Color green Description
3822 Color gray Description
3583 Color brown Description
3645 Color bronze Description
3646 Color blue Description
5028 Colonel Sartoris killed Recurring Episodes
1186 Collaborative narration Narrative

Any time multiple characters or voices participate in relating a story. JW

1274 Coleridge, Samuel Allusion, Literary
1871 Coke upon Littleton Allusion, Historical
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
1243 Complexion Appearance
2068 Compass Objects
3842 Compared to sleep Death
3721 Compared to living Death
368 Community (First level term)
571 Communal mythology Story-telling
4952 Commercial origins Naming
2266 Comforter Character
3703 Columbus Day Community
2237 Collective memory Memory
2200 Collecting money Money

Added for when Gavin Stevens raises money to pay for the funeral in "Go Down, Moses"; can be used for anytime characters take a collection or otherwise raise money for some cause. JBP

3267 Collar box Objects
3062 Collaborative Story-telling
3964 Coin Money
4024 Coin Objects
4679 Coffin Objects
1790 Coffin Death
5682 Coffee pot Objects
1127 Coffee Objects
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
952 Competitive Interracial
4070 Competition Familial
4810 Companions Interracial
895 Common law marriage Familial
893 Common law Marital
399 Commercial (First level term)
3274 College roommate Friendship
3306 College companions / classmates Friendship
3121 Cohesion Familial
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
4873 Commisary Place
4264 Combat sounds Auditory
3275 College dormitory Domestic Space
780 Cold Weather
1106 Cold Atmospheric
5648 Coffee Olfactory

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