Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parent 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

1331 Absence as loss Absence/Loss
5275 Absence as presence Absence/Loss
4512 Absence of sound Absence/Loss
358 Absence/Loss (First level term)
2604 Absurdity Meaning
5771 Acceptance Community
1689 Accident Chaos/Order
4419 Accounts Texts
517 Advent Arrivals/Departures
5401 Aesthetic experience Meaning
3798 African American music Art
626 African-American Community
2232 Afterlife Death
3214 Air gun Objects
3252 Airplane Objects
1459 Alarm Arrivals/Departures

This is whenever a character arrives or departs to communicate a message of alarm. JB

1783 Alias Naming
2331 Alienation Community
4447 Alienation from nature Exile
3010 Alligators Animals
3448 Aloneness Absence/Loss

As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP

4747 Ambiguous circumstances Death
538 Ambitious Character
5519 Amoral Character
2236 Anchovies Objects
4741 And an animal Determinism
3060 And caste Naming
4950 And change Time
5377 And civilization Art
4428 And inheritance Death
3193 And monuments Past
2082 Animal bear Death
2073 Animal Dog Death
2910 Animal horse Death
4535 Animal mule Death
364 Animals (First level term)
4847 Anthropological Texts
2749 Anticipation Time
3099 Anticipation of death Death
1615 Antlers Objects
2379 Ants Animals
3455 Anxiety about|Resistance to change Past
4216 Apotheosis Recurring Tropes
4209 Apparition Recurring Tropes
1090 Appearance (First level term)
631 Appearance-plain Body
3738 Apple tree Objects
3145 Arm Body
1667 Arrival Arrivals/Departures
2503 Arrival in Yoknapatawpha Arrivals/Departures
362 Arrivals/Departures (First level term)
363 Art (First level term)
2022 Artist Character
3444 Artistic creation Art
5231 As character Appearance
3059 As explanatory Past
3103 As motive Money
4513 As symbol Money

I added this term for when money is representative of something, like Chick's shame in Intruder. LW

5529 As tribute Naming
5769 Ascetic Character
2865 Assertive Character
4831 Attacked Home
2460 Attempt to find substitute Absence/Loss
1520 Audience response Story-telling
3312 Awareness of time Time
1247 Ax Objects
3112 Baby bottle Objects
1571 Bad conduct Values
4286 Balance Chaos/Order
3480 Baldness Appearance
1825 Ballot Box Objects
2359 Barbarism Character
739 Bargainer Character
5803 Barrel Objects
1823 Basket Objects
3263 Bats Animals
734 Bear Animals
2322 Beautiful/handsome Appearance
3994 Beavers Animals
3276 Bed Objects
3166 Being in time Time

Added to mark those moments when Quentin Compson explicitly refers to being "in" time -- subject to it, existing within it and unable to stop or evade its progression. This is opposite of course to those moments when he is "outside" of time and all that entails. JBP

3294 Being late / tardiness Time
3293 Being on time / punctuality Time
3167 Being outside of time Time
1982 Belatedness Recurring Tropes
4374 Belonging Home
3850 Beyond Recurring Tropes

I added this keyword to mark places where a character or text contemplates or imagines exceeding ordinary or usual boundaries. Specifically, this was added for when Quentin starts imagining "a hell beyond that" for him and Caddy. It can be used when "beyond" or a similar construction is used in figurative ways. JBP

1388 Bible Objects
4818 Bible Texts
3674 Bill Money
1393 Birds Animals
3011 Bison Animals
3880 Blackguard Character
3416 Blame Absence/Loss
680 Blood Body
4509 Bluejays Animals
2070 Boat Objects
365 Body (First level term)
5491 Bomb-sight Objects

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