Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
1306 Maturing Age
4420 Middle age Age
1617 Old age Age
1188 Premature aging 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
541 Spinsterhood Age
812 War Age
650 Youth Age
4651 Youth vs age Age
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
910 Abandonment Absence/Loss
1327 Absence Absence/Loss
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
1331 Absence as loss Absence/Loss
5275 Absence as presence Absence/Loss
4512 Absence of sound Absence/Loss
3448 Aloneness Absence/Loss

As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP
2460 Attempt to find substitute Absence/Loss
3416 Blame Absence/Loss
3186 Burning a town Absence/Loss
1385 Capture as loss Absence/Loss
764 Deracination Absence/Loss
1725 Disappearance Absence/Loss
1141 Kinlessness Absence/Loss

I chose this term because it includes orphanhood but isn't limited to it. JW
1968 Livestock Absence/Loss
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
2089 Loss of animal companion Absence/Loss
3132 Loss of innocence Absence/Loss
2450 Loss of object Absence/Loss
871 Material Absence/Loss
805 Men Absence/Loss
3188 Military defeat Absence/Loss
4148 Missing Absence/Loss
1282 Money|Wealth Absence/Loss
3117 Of loved one Absence/Loss
756 Over time Absence/Loss
5230 Quest to recover Absence/Loss
4836 Racial Absence/Loss
4800 Red necks Absence/Loss
707 Renewal Absence/Loss
1741 Separation Absence/Loss
4418 Substitute Absence/Loss
1000 Vanishing Indian Absence/Loss
821 War Absence/Loss
358 Absence/Loss (First level term)
364 Animals (First level term)
1090 Appearance (First level term)
362 Arrivals/Departures (First level term)
363 Art (First level term)
365 Body (First level term)
4562 Cannon (First level term)
385 Chaos/Order (First level term)
366 Character (First level term)
368 Community (First level term)
370 Death (First level term)
371 Determinism (First level term)
372 Exile (First level term)
374 Futility (First level term)
5574 Grasshoppers (First level term)
376 Home (First level term)
1091 Inheritance (First level term)
381 Meaning (First level term)
460 Memory (First level term)
382 Money (First level term)
1092 Morals (First level term)
463 Naming (First level term)
461 Objects (First level term)
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
331 Atmospheric (First level term)
332 Auditory (First level term)
692 Corn-planting time (First level term)
333 Domestic Space (First level term)
334 Natural (First level term)
335 Olfactory (First level term)
336 Otherworldly (First level term)
337 Place (First level term)
338 Public (First level term)
339 Time of Day (First level term)
340 Time of Year (First level term)
341 Weather (First level term)
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
1082 Agricultural (First level term)
342 Bodily (First level term)
1083 Communication (First level term)
1084 Composing (First level term)
1085 Domestic (First level term)
343 Economic (First level term)
344 Emotional (First level term)
345 Hunting (First level term)
346 Interaction, Private (First level term)
347 Interaction, Social (First level term)
1086 Legal (First level term)
348 Mental (First level term)
349 Military (First level term)
350 Moral (First level term)
351 Movement (First level term)
459 Non-human (First level term)
352 Perceptual (First level term)
353 Physical (First level term)
354 Play (First level term)
355 Verbal (First level term)
356 Violent (First level term)
357 Work (First level term)

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