Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
4110 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Goethe, Johann
3772 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Gods
961 Cultural Issues Religion Godhead
3614 Cultural Issues Religion God with human characteristics

For when God is described as human-like -- added for when Quentin said God is "not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too." JBP
2390 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical God / Jehovah
3612 Cultural Issues Religion God
1201 Themes and Motifs Animals Goat
1538 Cultural Issues Clothes Glove
4030 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Glove
4399 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Glory
4561 Cultural Issues War Glorification
1908 Environment Atmospheric Gloom
434 Cultural Issues (First level term) Global
4091 Cultural Issues Clothes Glasses
3443 Actions Work Glassblowing
3558 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Glass
4925 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Glasgow, Scotland
4728 Actions Verbal Giving advice
4537 Themes and Motifs Animals Giraffe
5234 Actions Agricultural Ginning cotton
2582 Cultural Issues Alcohol Gin
4268 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Gilbert and Sullivan
1109 Actions Economic Gifting
3149 Themes and Motifs Money Gift of money
859 Cultural Issues Economy Gift
3136 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Ghost story
3587 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Ghost
1883 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Ghost
3205 Environment Place Ghetto
3050 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Gettysburg
1648 Actions Work Getting water
2759 Actions Physical Getting water
4220 Actions Movement Getting closer

When someone's thoughts during a journey are focused on the place they're heading for, either with excitement or dread or something in between. SR
4257 Themes and Motifs Home Getting away
4061 Actions Economic Getting a receipt
4332 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Gethsemane
5613 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Gestures
4311 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Germany
4735 Aesthetics Language German
4385 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Georgia
5441 Cultural Issues Progress Gentrification
2286 Actions Interaction, Social Gentleman's agreement

Set of non-legally binding norms and values between two men. Distinct from Noblesse Oblige this is not class based, but gender based. Faulkner also uses this ironically at times. JB
5371 Cultural Issues Gender Gentleman
2989 Cultural Issues Class Gentility
409 Aesthetics (First level term) Genre Conventions
4878 Themes and Motifs Determinism Genetic
1895 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Genesis
5382 Themes and Motifs Character Generous
2434 Relationships Ancestral Generational succession
590 Cultural Issues Government Generational reform
4973 Cultural Issues Age Generation gap
5054 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes General Compson's military record
4126 Relationships Familial Genealogy
2042 Cultural Issues Race Genealogy

Any time a character's possible racial ancestries is germane to the text. J. Burgers
2933 Cultural Issues Violence Gendered

A violent action in which the gender dynamic plays a salient feature. The specific example is Boon hitting Miss Corrie in The Reivers. JB
5114 Themes and Motifs Determinism Gendered
654 Environment Domestic Space Gender stereotype
240 Cultural Issues (First level term) Gender
3261 Themes and Motifs Animals Geese
1032 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Gaze
5595 Themes and Motifs Community Gathering
4667 Environment Place Gate
1019 Environment Domestic Space Gate
3562 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Gastrointestinal discomfort
2063 Environment Olfactory Gasoline
2537 Themes and Motifs Objects Gasoline

Any time gasoline and fuel is mentioned as an object, not with regard to smell. It occurs a number of times in The Reivers as a fetishistic object of modernity. JB
1777 Environment Place Gas station
2826 Cultural Issues Clothes Garter
3383 Actions Verbal Garrulousness

Created for Gavin Stevens--LW
4066 Cultural Issues Clothes Garment female
3410 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Garibaldi, Giuseppe
900 Actions Work Gardening
2789 Actions Physical Gardening
3285 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Garden of Eden
1475 Environment Domestic Space Garden
2281 Environment Domestic Space Garage

Any structure used for the storage of a motor vehicle. In The Reivers this is continuously referred to as the "carriage house", but since it is now an automobile that it houses, I am calling it a garage. This might be more useful for scholars than carriage house. JB
4351 Aesthetics Narrative Gaps
4961 Relationships Social Gang
2581 Themes and Motifs Animals Gamecock
4348 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Gambling imagery
5258 Environment Place Gambling house
577 Cultural Issues Economy Gambling
937 Actions Play Gambling
1746 Cultural Issues Crime Gambling
2403 Themes and Motifs Character Gambler
830 Environment Place Gallows
1473 Environment Auditory Gallop
4270 Cultural Issues Ethnicity Gallic
3743 Cultural Issues Slavery Galley slave
1472 Environment Domestic Space Gallery
3343 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Galilee
3767 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Galahad
1339 Actions Bodily Gaining weight
2956 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Gaines's Mill
3225 Cultural Issues Education G.I. Bill
2051 Themes and Motifs Time Future
844 Themes and Motifs Death Future
374 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Futility
1182 Actions Emotional Fury
645 Themes and Motifs Objects Furniture

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