Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
2010 Environment Place Livery stable
4907 Cultural Issues Agriculture Livestock
1968 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Livestock
1868 Actions Agricultural Livestock care
4773 Environment Domestic Space Livestock pen
1812 Themes and Motifs Time Living in the present

Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past.
5084 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Livy
3363 Actions Physical Loading
2728 Cultural Issues Government Local laws and regulations
3863 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Local legend
3382 Themes and Motifs Community Local legends

I created this term in response to the local legend of Melisandre Backus Harriss that Chick inherits in "Knight's Gambit."--LW
2419 Cultural Issues Slavery Local origins
5566 Cultural Issues Politics Local political bosses
4215 Aesthetics Description Location portrait
4101 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Locked
3155 Actions Physical Locking a door
1717 Actions Legal Locking up
2455 Themes and Motifs Objects Locks
2485 Environment Olfactory Locust
2548 Environment Domestic Space Loft
1181 Environment Domestic Space Log house
2760 Environment Domestic Space Log yard
2046 Cultural Issues Land-Use Logging
5794 Environment Public Logging trail
4360 Actions Mental Logically reasoning
2827 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical London
2157 Environment Place Lonelier parts of town

Term for when a text makes reference to parts of town with fewer people or streets -- outskirts, edge of town, "less frequented" (as in "Miss Zilphia Gant"), and so forth. JBP
5440 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Long Island, New York
3621 Themes and Motifs Naming Long name
2158 Themes and Motifs Time Long passage of time

Perhaps self-evident, but for when a text makes a huge jump in time very quickly -- Zilphia Gant sitting beside the window "for twelve years," for instance. JBP
1888 Aesthetics Style Long sentence
3037 Aesthetics Style Long sentence passim
3447 Actions Emotional Longing
3270 Themes and Motifs Death Longing for death
5791 Actions Work Longshoreman
1215 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Longstreet, James
5146 Actions Bodily Looking
689 Actions Perceptual Looking
3497 Actions Perceptual Looking away
3955 Actions Perceptual Looking back
5061 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Looking upon evil
4812 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lookout Mountain
2596 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Loom
1999 Themes and Motifs Money Loot
2335 Cultural Issues Crime Looting
2819 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lord Fauntleroy
5554 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Los Angeles
4680 Actions Bodily Losing consciousness
2563 Actions Work Losing job
3826 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Losing vs never having

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
2299 Actions Bodily Losing weight
2089 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Loss of animal companion
5570 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Loss of eyesight
2439 Cultural Issues Land-Use Loss of flora
3132 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Loss of innocence
2450 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Loss of object
767 Cultural Issues Land-Use Loss of wilderness
2438 Cultural Issues Land-Use Loss of wildlife
2216 Themes and Motifs Money Lost
948 Cultural Issues Region Lost Cause
3031 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Lost Cause
5422 Cultural Issues History Lost Generation
4368 Themes and Motifs Time Lost time
1488 Environment Domestic Space Lot
2012 Environment Place Lot
2380 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lothario
5691 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Louisville, Kentucky
1583 Themes and Motifs Values Love
1225 Actions Emotional Love
3185 Relationships Romantic Love at first sight
2721 Themes and Motifs Texts Love letter
4991 Relationships Marital Loving
3775 Cultural Issues Class Lower class / riff-raff / canaille
5459 Cultural Issues Race Loyal blacks
285 Cultural Issues Slavery Loyalty

To note passages in which enslaved people are described - or describe themselves - as loyal to the family that owns them, as when Simon describes how happy all the Sartoris slaves were at the birth of their master's son. SR
4660 Themes and Motifs Morals Loyalty
510 Themes and Motifs Values Loyalty
2804 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Lucifer
2272 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Luck
3700 Themes and Motifs Objects Luggage
5533 Cultural Issues Agriculture Lumber trade
3948 Environment Time of Year Lunar month / cycle
2555 Environment Time of Day Lunch
4298 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lusitania
1882 Actions Emotional Lust
1454 Themes and Motifs Money Luxury
4942 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lycurgus of Sparta
2742 Actions Verbal Lying
1208 Actions Moral Lying
5703 Actions Physical Lying down
1436 Actions Violent Lynch mob
1718 Cultural Issues Violence Lynching
2791 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lytle, Horace
884 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical MacArthur, Douglas
2320 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Macbeth
5756 Environment Auditory Machine

The specific instance where this is used is in The Hamlet to refer to the sound of a cotton gin, but can be used to describe any sounds of industrialization.
2717 Themes and Motifs Objects Machine gun
3342 Cultural Issues Materialism Machinery or mechanical references

For when a text makes explicit reference to machinery, mechanical issues, or the workings of related items -- e.g., Quentin's references in S&F to the wheels and gears of his watch (and his father's before him). JBP
4448 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Madame Bovary
4768 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Madison, Mississippi

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