Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
4452 Relationships Familial Favoritism
2300 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Faustus
2802 Aesthetics Intertextuality Faulkner text
3942 Themes and Motifs Appearance Fatness / obesity
4108 Relationships Familial Father-son in law
514 Relationships Familial Father-son
565 Relationships Familial Father-daughter
3279 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Father said
1067 Relationships Marital Father in law-son in law
2532 Themes and Motifs Determinism Fated

Created to describe a situation that seems meant to be, as when Susan Reed seems destined for Hawkshaw's barbershop in "Hair." --LW & BR
1278 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Fate
1927 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fatality
2263 Actions Mental Fatalism
4608 Actions Bodily Fasting
4607 Actions Physical Fasting
4169 Actions Emotional Fascination
4205 Themes and Motifs Objects Farming tools
1154 Cultural Issues Agriculture Farming life
1833 Actions Agricultural Farming
813 Actions Work Farming
3634 Cultural Issues Agriculture Farming
1010 Cultural Issues Labor Farming
866 Environment Place Farm
881 Environment Place Farm
1370 Aesthetics Tone Farce
2611 Aesthetics Narrative Fantasy

Whenever a narrator engages in an event that she or he knows to be pure fantasy or wish fulfillment. JC
1447 Cultural Issues Mass Media Fantasy

The fantasies generated in viewers, readers, or listeners by the mass media. What in "Dry September," in reference to Hollywood cinema, Faulkner calls "the silver dream." BR
3753 Cultural Issues Sexuality Fantasy
3327 Actions Mental Fantasizing
2915 Cultural Issues Clothes Fancy
5153 Cultural Issues Religion Fanaticism
2466 Themes and Motifs Objects Fan
4250 Themes and Motifs Values Family values

Not to be confused with the contemporary politically charged term. Rather, these are values shared by all or most members of the family. It's what your mamma or daddy taught you. JB and EP
4851 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Family role
4476 Themes and Motifs Values Family honor
1304 Actions Verbal Family history
2857 Themes and Motifs Past Family history
5281 Relationships Familial Family as shackle
313 Cultural Issues Slavery Family
3901 Actions Perceptual Familiarity
4893 Environment Atmospheric Familiar
400 Relationships (First level term) Familial
1831 Relationships Social Fame
1210 Themes and Motifs Naming False name
3642 Actions Bodily Falling
544 Environment Time of Year Fall
2172 Themes and Motifs Values Faithfulness

Faithfulness as a general virtue, synonymous with fidelity and/or loyalty (unless others think those merit a separate keyword entry). Wasn't sure if this should go here or go also or instead under Actions > Emotions. JBP
2408 Themes and Motifs Morals Faith
2623 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fairy-tale
1318 Actions Bodily Fainting
3162 Themes and Motifs Futility Failure to defend honor
3553 Actions Mental Failing / Failure
5484 Environment Place Factory|Plant
5483 Actions Economic Factory labor
3867 Cultural Issues Progress Factory
4694 Actions Work Factory
1545 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Face
629 Themes and Motifs Body Face
1772 Cultural Issues Law Eyewitness
584 Themes and Motifs Body Eyes
915 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Eyes
1204 Aesthetics Description Eyes
3740 Themes and Motifs Body Eyelashes
2161 Themes and Motifs Objects Eyeglasses
1157 Cultural Issues Law Eye for an eye

I opted for the more familiar phrase over "Talionic code of justice" to facilitate searching. JW
1341 Actions Emotional Exultation
4523 Relationships Sexual Extramarital
1573 Relationships Romantic Extra-marital
850 Cultural Issues Sexuality Extra-marital
2959 Cultural Issues Crime Extortion
4251 Actions Physical Extinguishing fire
1576 Relationships Familial Extended family
2287 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Expression

Any common expression, saying, or proverb that Faulkner uses. For example, "cat on a hot stove" or "sticks out like a horse in a duck pond." JB
5093 Actions Interaction, Social Exposure
4299 Actions Violent Explosion
1660 Cultural Issues History Explorers
1661 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Explorers
4979 Cultural Issues Politics Exploitative
2261 Actions Moral Exploitation
4963 Aesthetics Interpretation Explanatory passage
3362 Actions Verbal Explaining
4918 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Explaining
3835 Actions Perceptual Experiencing second-hand / vicariously
3475 Cultural Issues Sexuality Experience
3616 Cultural Issues Clothes Expensive and/or fancy clothes
820 Cultural Issues Clothes Expensive
1789 Themes and Motifs Money Expenses
3894 Cultural Issues Education Expelled / expulsion
4859 Actions Emotional Expecting
760 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Exoticism
762 Cultural Issues Global Exoticism
4322 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Exodus
3350 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Existentialism
372 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Exile
1381 Relationships Familial Exigent circumstances
4598 Actions Legal Exhumation order
2227 Actions Emotional Exhaustion
808 Cultural Issues Law Execution
988 Themes and Motifs Death Execution
3377 Environment Olfactory Excrement

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