Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
309 Cultural Issues Slavery Concubinage
2174 Cultural Issues Sexuality Conception/Conceiving a child
1984 Actions Interaction, Social Concealment

Any time a character hides something from his peer group or society at large. The particular instance here is John Powell concealing his pistol from the men in the livery stable.
5142 Actions Physical Concealing
5494 Actions Mental Compulsion
5207 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Compsons sell pasture
5208 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Compson land acquired
3027 Cultural Issues History Compromise of 1850
1084 Actions (First level term) Composing
1243 Themes and Motifs Appearance Complexion
1273 Actions Verbal Complaining
952 Relationships Interracial Competitive
4609 Actions Interaction, Social Competition
4176 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Competition
3933 Actions Economic Competition
4070 Relationships Familial Competition
4361 Cultural Issues Law Compensation
2068 Themes and Motifs Objects Compass
3842 Themes and Motifs Death Compared to sleep
3721 Themes and Motifs Death Compared to living
4810 Relationships Interracial Companions
507 Cultural Issues Group Mentality Community collective

We created this term to denote any instance in which the community operates as a social body, collectively self-organizing to think or do something. Sometimes, this may be simply believing an idea collectively and, at others, it may entail acting together as in the crowd at the horse auction of The Hamlet. JC and JJ
368 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Community
1668 Cultural Issues Food Community
5356 Cultural Issues History Communism
4596 Cultural Issues Religion Communion
1083 Actions (First level term) Communication
2508 Cultural Issues Group Mentality Communal story
586 Aesthetics Narrative Communal narrative
571 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Communal mythology
895 Relationships Familial Common law marriage
893 Relationships Marital Common law
287 Cultural Issues Slavery Commodity
4873 Environment Place Commisary
2545 Cultural Issues Crime Commercial sexual exploitation

Undoubtedly the more common term searched will be "prostitution". The aim of this term is to identify the crime being actively committed by the pimps and bordello madams. JB
4952 Themes and Motifs Naming Commercial origins
399 Relationships (First level term) Commercial
2540 Cultural Issues Economy Commerce

Any moment in which the advent or nature of commerce is commented upon. In this instance, it is proto-capitalistic practices that take place as Yoknapatawpha moves from frontier to civilization. JB
1852 Aesthetics Narrative Commentary
2751 Cultural Issues Ritual Commemoration
5090 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Commandments
632 Actions Verbal Command
4279 Cultural Issues Age Coming of age
2763 Actions Emotional Comforting
2266 Themes and Motifs Character Comforter
2552 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Comedy
4264 Environment Auditory Combat sounds
2521 Actions Military Combat
2654 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Coma
5531 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Columbus, Mississippi
3409 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Columbus, Christopher
3703 Themes and Motifs Community Columbus Day
1853 Cultural Issues Race Colorism
3524 Cultural Issues Race Colored people as acceptable terminology
3873 Aesthetics Description Color yellow
3897 Aesthetics Description Color white
3144 Aesthetics Description Color red
4508 Aesthetics Description Color purple
3961 Aesthetics Description Color pink
3584 Aesthetics Description Color of leaf tobacco
4507 Aesthetics Description Color maroon
4075 Aesthetics Description Color lilac
3786 Aesthetics Description Color green
3822 Aesthetics Description Color gray
3583 Aesthetics Description Color brown
3645 Aesthetics Description Color bronze
3646 Aesthetics Description Color blue
3015 Cultural Issues History Colonization
5028 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Colonel Sartoris killed
3274 Relationships Friendship College roommate
3765 Cultural Issues Education College or school traditions
4287 Cultural Issues Education College life
3275 Environment Domestic Space College dormitory
3306 Relationships Friendship College companions / classmates
3308 Cultural Issues Education College class or lecture
2572 Cultural Issues Education College
2237 Themes and Motifs Memory Collective memory
4574 Cultural Issues Land-Use Collective exploitation

This is in reference to the system of governance Uncle Buck and Buddy setup on the McCaslin plantation with black and white working side side-by-side in large cooperative referenced in the Unvanquished (48-49). A similar system is enacted by Brother Goodhay in the Mansion. JB
2200 Themes and Motifs Money Collecting money

Added for when Gavin Stevens raises money to pay for the funeral in "Go Down, Moses"; can be used for anytime characters take a collection or otherwise raise money for some cause. JBP
3267 Themes and Motifs Objects Collar box
3266 Cultural Issues Clothes Collar
1186 Aesthetics Narrative Collaborative narration

Any time multiple characters or voices participate in relating a story. JW
3062 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Collaborative
1274 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Coleridge, Samuel
2867 Actions Emotional Coldness
5362 Cultural Issues History Cold War
780 Environment Weather Cold
1106 Environment Atmospheric Cold
1871 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Coke upon Littleton
3964 Themes and Motifs Money Coin
4024 Themes and Motifs Objects Coin
3121 Relationships Familial Cohesion
4679 Themes and Motifs Objects Coffin
1790 Themes and Motifs Death Coffin
5682 Themes and Motifs Objects Coffee pot
5648 Environment Olfactory Coffee
3929 Cultural Issues Food Coffee
1127 Themes and Motifs Objects Coffee
4321 Actions Interaction, Private Coercion
3706 Actions Verbal Code-switching / Change in dialect

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