Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
5274 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Magdalen
1286 Cultural Issues Mass Media Magazines
5139 Themes and Motifs Objects Magazine
4703 Themes and Motifs Texts Magazine
1310 Themes and Motifs Psychological Madness
4768 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Madison, Mississippi
4448 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Madame Bovary
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
2717 Themes and Motifs Objects Machine gun
2320 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Macbeth
884 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical MacArthur, Douglas
2791 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lytle, Horace
1718 Cultural Issues Violence Lynching
1436 Actions Violent Lynch mob
2742 Actions Verbal Lying
1208 Actions Moral Lying
4942 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lycurgus of Sparta
1454 Themes and Motifs Money Luxury
1882 Actions Emotional Lust
4298 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lusitania
2555 Environment Time of Day Lunch
3948 Environment Time of Year Lunar month / cycle
5533 Cultural Issues Agriculture Lumber trade
3700 Themes and Motifs Objects Luggage
2272 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Luck
2804 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Lucifer
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
5459 Cultural Issues Race Loyal blacks
3775 Cultural Issues Class Lower class / riff-raff / canaille
4991 Relationships Marital Loving
2721 Themes and Motifs Texts Love letter
3185 Relationships Romantic Love at first sight
1583 Themes and Motifs Values Love
1225 Actions Emotional Love
2380 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lothario
1488 Environment Domestic Space Lot
2012 Environment Place Lot
4368 Themes and Motifs Time Lost time
5422 Cultural Issues History Lost Generation
948 Cultural Issues Region Lost Cause
3031 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Lost Cause
2216 Themes and Motifs Money Lost
2438 Cultural Issues Land-Use Loss of wildlife
767 Cultural Issues Land-Use Loss of wilderness
2450 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Loss of object
3132 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Loss of innocence
2439 Cultural Issues Land-Use Loss of flora
5570 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Loss of eyesight
2089 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Loss of animal companion
2299 Actions Bodily Losing weight
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
2563 Actions Work Losing job
4680 Actions Bodily Losing consciousness
5554 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Los Angeles
2819 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lord Fauntleroy
2335 Cultural Issues Crime Looting
1999 Themes and Motifs Money Loot
2596 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Loom
4812 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lookout Mountain
5061 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Looking upon evil
3955 Actions Perceptual Looking back
3497 Actions Perceptual Looking away
5146 Actions Bodily Looking
689 Actions Perceptual Looking
1215 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Longstreet, James
3270 Themes and Motifs Death Longing for death
3447 Actions Emotional Longing
3037 Aesthetics Style Long sentence passim
1888 Aesthetics Style Long sentence
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
3621 Themes and Motifs Naming Long name
5440 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Long Island, New York
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
2827 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical London
4360 Actions Mental Logically reasoning
2046 Cultural Issues Land-Use Logging
2760 Environment Domestic Space Log yard
1181 Environment Domestic Space Log house
2548 Environment Domestic Space Loft
2485 Environment Olfactory Locust
2455 Themes and Motifs Objects Locks
1717 Actions Legal Locking up
3155 Actions Physical Locking a door
4101 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Locked
4215 Aesthetics Description Location portrait
5566 Cultural Issues Politics Local political bosses
2419 Cultural Issues Slavery Local origins
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
3863 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Local legend
2728 Cultural Issues Government Local laws and regulations
3363 Actions Physical Loading
5084 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Livy
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.
4773 Environment Domestic Space Livestock pen
1868 Actions Agricultural Livestock care
4907 Cultural Issues Agriculture Livestock
1968 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Livestock
2055 Actions Work Livery stable

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