Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
1741 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Separation
2787 Environment Time of Year September
4358 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Seraphim and cherubim
2964 Themes and Motifs Time Series of events experienced as long duration
4517 Cultural Issues Religion Sermon
2875 Environment Domestic Space Servants' home

For when a text draws attention to the home of a servant (not necessarily a slave quarter) - the servants' homes in "The Sound and the Fury," for instance, or maybe in "The Unvanquished." -JBP
2495 Actions Domestic Setting the table
1553 Actions Hunting Setting up camp
5236 Actions Economic Settling up
5145 Environment Time of Day Seven o'clock p.m.
3464 Cultural Issues Education Sewanee
1213 Actions Domestic Sewing
3255 Themes and Motifs Objects Sewing machine
271 Cultural Issues Slavery Sex
3900 Cultural Issues Sexuality Sex and death
4691 Actions Economic Sex as payment
4624 Cultural Issues Violence Sexual
3104 Relationships Romantic Sexual
4649 Environment Atmospheric Sexual
4227 Actions Interaction, Private Sexual
482 Relationships (First level term) Sexual
3794 Actions Violent Sexual assault
3730 Cultural Issues Gender Sexual double standard

For when a text makes references to the double standards between men and women; also can apply to double standard for women - Madonna/whore (or virgin/whore). Added for when Mrs Compson posits that a woman is either a lady or not (referring to Caddy and her dishonor). JBP
5250 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Sexual goddesses
2816 Cultural Issues Gender Sexual Harassment
3650 Cultural Issues Sexuality Sexual passion
845 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sexual power
3956 Environment Olfactory Sexual smells
3758 Aesthetics Symbolism Sexual symbol
486 Cultural Issues (First level term) Sexuality
579 Cultural Issues Clothes Shabby
2309 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Shades
666 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Shadow
1564 Cultural Issues Race Shadow of Negro
1323 Aesthetics Symbolism Shadows
3064 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Shadows
947 Aesthetics Intertextuality Shakespeare
2762 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Shakespeare, William
3414 Actions Bodily Shaking
2785 Actions Interaction, Social Shaking hands
1294 Actions Emotional Shame
3203 Cultural Issues Agriculture Share-cropping|Tenantry

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
696 Actions Economic Share-cropping|Tenantry

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
4882 Aesthetics Symbolism Shared humanity
3100 Actions Verbal Sharing confidences
4798 Cultural Issues Economy Sharing the land
2642 Actions Work Sharpening
3371 Actions Bodily Shaving
5138 Themes and Motifs Objects Shaving brush
3398 Environment Olfactory Shaving lotion
1645 Cultural Issues Clothes Shawl
3604 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Sheep
5176 Themes and Motifs Animals Sheep
2636 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Shell
5486 Themes and Motifs Objects Shell
3828 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Shelley, Percy Bysshe
4239 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Sheridan, Philip
804 Cultural Issues Law Sheriff
907 Cultural Issues Law Sheriff's deputy
5130 Environment Place Sheriff's office
5347 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Sherlock Holmes
2602 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Sherman, William Tecumseh
4565 Aesthetics Language Shhhh
2660 Aesthetics Tone Shift
3666 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Shiloh
4777 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Shiloh
3428 Themes and Motifs Objects Ship
4347 Actions Movement Ship
3590 Cultural Issues Technology Ship's wheel
5510 Cultural Issues Economy Shipping
3586 Cultural Issues Technology Shipping schooner
3585 Cultural Issues Technology Shipping tugboat
2630 Cultural Issues Clothes Shirt
5321 Cultural Issues Clothes Shirtless
3080 Cultural Issues Clothes Shirtsleeves
916 Actions Bodily Shivering
3388 Actions Emotional Shock
1190 Cultural Issues Clothes Shoes
1054 Actions Hunting Shooting
861 Cultural Issues Violence Shooting
1253 Actions Violent Shooting
619 Actions Interaction, Social Shopping
4759 Actions Economic Shopping
1183 Themes and Motifs Objects Shotgun
560 Relationships Marital Shotgun marriage
4187 Environment Auditory Shots
3148 Themes and Motifs Body Shoulder
1061 Actions Verbal Shouting
5158 Themes and Motifs Objects Shovel
4732 Actions Physical Showing
5291 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Showing up
4365 Themes and Motifs Character Shrewdness
4247 Environment Place Shrubbery
620 Relationships Familial Sibling
4131 Relationships Interracial Siblings
3742 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Sick as euphemism for pregnancy
3153 Environment Domestic Space Sick room

Added to denote a room being used or described as for when someone is sick. Added to refer to the "empty" room that is also where the family "has the measles" in S&F, but can be applied in other texts as well -- Addie's room in AILD, for example. -JBP
2613 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Sickness
2765 Environment Public Sidewalk
2376 Aesthetics Metafictional Signs

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