Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
3270 Themes and Motifs Death Longing for death
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
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
1310 Themes and Motifs Psychological Madness
5139 Themes and Motifs Objects Magazine
4703 Themes and Motifs Texts Magazine
1286 Cultural Issues Mass Media Magazines
5274 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Magdalen
2994 Cultural Issues Entertainment Magic trick
5448 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Maginot Line
2249 Themes and Motifs Objects Magnet
1703 Cultural Issues Progress Mail delivery
5326 Cultural Issues Gender makeup
2496 Actions Domestic Making a bed
4738 Cultural Issues Law Making a case
5649 Actions Domestic Making coffee
1701 Actions Interaction, Social Making progress
968 Cultural Issues Crime Making whisky
5722 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Malan, Adolph
5725 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Malan, Adolph
4034 Aesthetics Diction Malapropism
5626 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Malaria
5503 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Malaya
3589 Themes and Motifs Body Male body
3983 Cultural Issues Gender Male body
3083 Cultural Issues Gender Male domination
2259 Actions Interaction, Social Male gathering

Added "Male gathering" to capture those moments where men gather in public spaces, like porches, stores, and on the street.--LW
4643 Cultural Issues Gender Male gaze
5262 Cultural Issues Gender Male rescuer
4622 Cultural Issues Gender Male rivalry
5350 Cultural Issues Sexuality Male vitality
4648 Cultural Issues Violence Male-female
2361 Relationships Friendship Male-male attraction
2590 Relationships Friendship Male-male relationship
5713 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Malraux, Andre
3887 Cultural Issues Gender Mama's boy
3224 Relationships Interracial Mammy-child
5009 Relationships Interspecies Man-bear

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