Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
3915 Alcoholism Alcohol
3916 Death from drinking Alcohol
4094 Mint julep Alcohol
4096 Traditional southern drink Alcohol
4098 Drink recipe Alcohol
4106 Wine hamper Alcohol
4459 As anaesthetic Alcohol
4597 Abstinence Alcohol
4676 Wanting a drink Alcohol
4948 As currency Alcohol
5334 Store-bought vs moonshine Alcohol
1154 Farming life Agriculture
1176 Soil quality Agriculture
1178 Corn Agriculture
1179 Cotton Agriculture
2348 Grist mill Agriculture

This is for any general discussion of grist mills as a farm implement. JB
2587 Husbandry Agriculture

Any part of a text related to the care and breeding of animals. The immediate context for this is on an actual farm, as for example Mink's attempt to breed his cow with a local bull. It also extends out to any knowledge of animals for the purposes of domestication or labor. For example, Lucius Priest being able to identify a horse as "three-quarters-bred" in The Reivers, though the horse itself is not on a farm. JB
2970 Hay Agriculture
2971 Matched team of horses or mules Agriculture
3203 Share-cropping|Tenantry Agriculture

There are significant differences between "share-cropping" and "tenant farming" in reality. "Tenants" typically furnished their own farming tools and livestock, and had at least a measure of control over what crops they planted on land they rented from a landlord; "share-croppers" typically only contributed their own labor, with the landlord dictating what they would raise and providing the animals and tools they used. But in his fiction Faulkner does not maintain this distinction, using the terms as essentially synonymous. SR
3204 Hill farms Agriculture
3206 Tractors Agriculture
3227 Diminishing farms Agriculture
3634 Farming Agriculture
3678 Salt lick Agriculture
4875 Market gardening Agriculture
4907 Livestock Agriculture
4994 Household gardening Agriculture
5305 Ownership Agriculture
5331 Government regulations Agriculture
5332 Regulations Agriculture
5335 Furnish bill Agriculture
5488 Crop dusting Agriculture
5533 Lumber trade Agriculture
541 Spinsterhood Age
650 Youth Age
771 Growing old Age
812 War Age
923 Adolescence Age
1188 Premature aging Age
1288 Childhood Age
1306 Maturing Age
1617 Old age Age
2940 Rite of passage Age

Any challenge or ritualized moment in which a person goes from child to adult. The other option here is coming of age, but felt like a more passive, ambiguous movement over time, when what is meant here is someone having an active, singular moment in which he or she becomes an adult. For example, Lucius winning the horse race in The Reivers (274). JB
2965 Baby Age
4279 Coming of age Age
4420 Middle age Age
4651 Youth vs age Age
4973 Generation gap Age
5606 Agelessness Age
239 Class (First level term)
240 Gender (First level term)
241 History (First level term)
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
1130 Plowing Agricultural
1212 Chopping Agricultural
1833 Farming Agricultural
1868 Livestock care Agricultural
2260 Cotton picking Agricultural
4751 Incompetent farming Agricultural
5234 Ginning cotton Agricultural
5237 Raising|shipping cattle Agricultural
5267 Milking a cow Agricultural
5290 Child labor Agricultural
5337 Planting Agricultural
5532 Hog farming Agricultural
5572 Hay-making Agricultural
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
617 Absence as disguise Absence/Loss

This was created to note Flem Snopes' calculated absence during the horse auction, the way he has orchestrated it from behind the scene. I'm not sure this occurs with anyone but Flem, but it occurs multiple times in his case. SR
707 Renewal Absence/Loss
756 Over time Absence/Loss
764 Deracination Absence/Loss
805 Men Absence/Loss
821 War Absence/Loss
871 Material Absence/Loss
910 Abandonment Absence/Loss
1000 Vanishing Indian Absence/Loss
1141 Kinlessness Absence/Loss

I chose this term because it includes orphanhood but isn't limited to it. JW
1282 Money|Wealth Absence/Loss
1327 Absence Absence/Loss
1331 Absence as loss Absence/Loss
1385 Capture as loss Absence/Loss
1725 Disappearance Absence/Loss
1741 Separation Absence/Loss
1968 Livestock Absence/Loss
2089 Loss of animal companion Absence/Loss
2450 Loss of object Absence/Loss
2460 Attempt to find substitute Absence/Loss
3117 Of loved one Absence/Loss
3132 Loss of innocence Absence/Loss
3186 Burning a town Absence/Loss
3188 Military defeat Absence/Loss
3416 Blame Absence/Loss
3448 Aloneness Absence/Loss

As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP
3826 Losing vs never having Absence/Loss

Added for when Quentin makes the observation, about a man who castrated himself, "It's not not having them. It's never to have had them." I believe similar ideas crop up elsewhere in Faulkner - distinguishing between having and losing, or never having in the first place. JBP
4148 Missing Absence/Loss
4418 Substitute Absence/Loss
4512 Absence of sound Absence/Loss
4800 Red necks Absence/Loss
4836 Racial Absence/Loss
5230 Quest to recover Absence/Loss
5275 Absence as presence Absence/Loss

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