Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
4146 Themes and Motifs Animals Insects crickets
3883 Themes and Motifs Animals Insects butterflies
3882 Themes and Motifs Animals Insects bees
2927 Environment Auditory Insect sounds
3858 Themes and Motifs Animals Insect fly
4469 Themes and Motifs Animals Insect boll weevil
1609 Themes and Motifs Appearance Inscrutable

I added this for "The Old People," 205.3, to reflect the lack of emotion that Sam Fathers shows. LW
1542 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Inscription
5345 Cultural Issues Law Insanity plea
2758 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Insanity
1996 Actions Mental Inquiry
4796 Cultural Issues Law Inquest
2353 Themes and Motifs Past Innocence
647 Themes and Motifs Character Innocence
4595 Cultural Issues Crime Innocence
1245 Themes and Motifs Morals Injustice
2077 Actions Hunting Injury

Added for when hunters (or hunting dogs) are injured while hunting -- as Boon (and Lion) are. -JBP
3627 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Injury
1377 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Injured
5319 Actions Bodily Inject
1628 Cultural Issues Ritual Initiation
2407 Themes and Motifs Character Inherited traits
901 Cultural Issues Government Inherited position
4133 Cultural Issues Law Inheritance refusal
4895 Themes and Motifs Inheritance Inheritance of wrong
4134 Themes and Motifs Money Inheritance
1091 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Inheritance
899 Cultural Issues Government Inheritance
681 Cultural Issues Law Inheritance
5583 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Ingersoll, Robert G.
1457 Cultural Issues Progress Infrastructure

This is a blanket term for any infrastructural development that happens. This is used for something that is either not covered, or when infrastructure in general improves. The specific example here is about Jefferson not being developed enough for it to have anything the Union Army might want. JB
2038 Cultural Issues Law Informal arrangement

Whenever there is an arrangement between two or multiple parties that is not strictly legal, but is adhered to as law. For example, Judge Steven's arrangement with Maury Priest over the actions of Ludus and Boon in the Reivers. This won't hold up in a court of law, but is adhered to by both parties. J. Burgers
2275 Cultural Issues Education Informal

Any time a character "learns-by-doing" or receives some type of mentorship into a trade or profession. The specific example here is Mr Buffaloe teaching Boon how to operate a car. JB
3878 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Infinity
4692 Relationships Romantic Infidelity
5793 Cultural Issues Sexuality Infertility
3723 Actions Emotional Inferiority
4466 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Infection
3535 Cultural Issues Prejudice Infantilizing of blacks
4329 Themes and Motifs Character Inexperience
4167 Cultural Issues Race Inequalities

Created to capture the pervasive patterns of difference caused by race - specifically, that the white hunters in "Race at Morning" carry good guns while Simon carries an old "britchloader slung on a piece of plow line" (298). Could also be used to capture what Bayard calls the "arrangements" between him and Ringo, etc. SR
2498 Environment Auditory Industry
3202 Cultural Issues Economy Industrialization
2247 Cultural Issues Labor Industrial
5537 Cultural Issues Progress Indoor plumbing
4917 Themes and Motifs Character Indomitable
4258 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Individualism

Beyond self-reliance, this concept also folds in ideas of treating people as individuals and a deep skepticism about organizations, institutions, or perspectives that group people together. In its base form it is anti-government, anti-collectivist, anti-group think, but not a full-fledged political doctrine like Libertarianism. JB and EP
5415 Cultural Issues Race Indistinguishable

Whenever a white and black character cannot be distinguished from one another, or when a white character looks black and vice versa. I'm thinking here of Uncle Willy and Secretary in the plane in "Uncle Willy", "Uncle Willy and Secretary side by side and looking exactly alike, I don't mean in the face but exactly alike two tines of a garden fork look exactly alike before they chop into the ground" (244). JB
2779 Actions Emotional Indignation
1509 Actions Emotional Indifference
1152 Cultural Issues Law Indictment
4900 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Indianapolis, Indiana
5605 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Indiana
1557 Relationships Interracial Indian-white
1624 Relationships Interracial Indian-white
5617 Relationships Interracial Indian-black
4782 Environment Time of Year Indian Summer
329 Cultural Issues Slavery Indian slave-owners
2421 Themes and Motifs Exile Indian Removal
1674 Cultural Issues History Indian Removal
5043 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Indian removal
846 Themes and Motifs Naming Indian name
4021 Environment Place Indian mound
1465 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Indian medicine
985 Themes and Motifs Death Indian burial practices
4946 Environment Place Indian agency
4916 Cultural Issues War Indian / Native American wars
1636 Aesthetics Language Indian
987 Relationships Ancestral Indian
3036 Aesthetics Style Index
613 Aesthetics Narrative Indeterminacy
1187 Themes and Motifs Character Independence
683 Themes and Motifs Values Independence
1785 Actions Emotional Indecision
3394 Actions Economic Indebtedness
4355 Actions Emotional Incredulity
3670 Aesthetics Tone Incongruous
3804 Actions Mental Incomprehension
4751 Actions Agricultural Incompetent farming
5123 Themes and Motifs Inheritance Income
3290 Cultural Issues Sexuality Incest
2944 Cultural Issues Law Incarceration

There are already a number of similar words in the keyword list that denote some type of legal confinement. This one is meant to indicate the general concept of going to jail, not the direct action of someone being sent to jail or prison. JB
1724 Actions Interaction, Social Incarcerating
3555 Actions Mental Inattentativeness
4179 Relationships Sexual Inappropriate
3329 Actions Physical Inaction / Not doing something
4641 Themes and Motifs Futility Inability
1723 Themes and Motifs Money In prospect
1561 Themes and Motifs Home In nature
1349 Themes and Motifs Death In childbirth
5023 Themes and Motifs Futility In battle
3253 Themes and Motifs Character Impulsiveness
4525 Themes and Motifs Home Improvements
685 Actions Economic Impounding
3082 Cultural Issues Sexuality Impotence
2679 Themes and Motifs Character Impotence

This entry can refer both to, and beyond, the physiological to denote the inability to achieve an aim, dream or ambition. In Absalom 149.4, Sutpen provides an example; he still has the same ruthless ambition, but can no longer realize it, reduced as he is to tending his store and drinking with Wash Jones. JC
2504 Cultural Issues Slavery Imported

To indicate when slaves began their lives (in either freedom or slavery) outside the U.S. The most obvious example are the slaves Sutpen brings with him from the Caribbean. SR
1832 Themes and Motifs Naming Importance of naming

When a character or narrator draws attention to a name - e.g., the narrator of "Lion" saying as "head bear," Old Ben "deserved a better name." JBP
1275 Cultural Issues Violence Implied shooting
4821 Aesthetics Symbolism Impermanence

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