Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
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
1058 Actions Emotional Impatience
2207 Actions Mental Impairment
5571 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Impaired vision
2773 Cultural Issues Clothes Immodest female clothing
3928 Cultural Issues Nationality Immigration|Immigrants
5222 Cultural Issues History Immigration
3962 Environment Domestic Space Immigrant neighborhood
1804 Aesthetics Diction Imitation

When a character imitates or approximates the dialect of another, whose dialect they themselves do not use. BR
2366 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Imitation
2177 Actions Mental Imagining
1805 Aesthetics Narrative Imagined conversation

When a narrator retrospectively imagines what they could have or wished they had said in a particular conversation. BR
4677 Themes and Motifs Death Imagined
2138 Cultural Issues Violence Imagined
3222 Themes and Motifs Values Imagination
1346 Cultural Issues Race Imaginary Negro men
3172 Themes and Motifs Futility Illusion of success or victory
2314 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Illusion
1761 Cultural Issues Education Illiteracy
582 Cultural Issues Sexuality Illegitimacy
5439 Themes and Motifs Money Ill-gotten
5075 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
970 Actions Bodily Idleness
471 Cultural Issues (First level term) Identity, Personal
436 Cultural Issues (First level term) Identity, Cultural
3052 Cultural Issues Gender Idealization
5272 Themes and Motifs Values Idealism
2440 Cultural Issues Food Ice-cream
3603 Environment Atmospheric Ice floes / iceberg
5287 Environment Weather Ice
2476 Themes and Motifs Objects Ice
5457 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical I.W.W.|Industrial Workers of the World
2109 Actions Emotional Hysteria
3061 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Hypocritical
4966 Themes and Motifs Character Hypocrisy
1398 Themes and Motifs Morals Hypocrisy
3169 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Hyphen
932 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Hyperbole
4684 Cultural Issues Religion Hymns
3296 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Hymn "Holy Matrimony"

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