Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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1635 | Cultural Issues | Land-Use | Agricultural | |
1640 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Body | |
1641 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Baptist | |
1642 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Episcopal | |
1643 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Clothing | |
1645 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Shawl | |
1652 | Cultural Issues | Region | Reconstruction | |
1655 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Widow | |
1656 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Mourning | |
1657 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Bonnet | |
1660 | Cultural Issues | History | Explorers | |
1662 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Historical | |
1663 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Invention | |
1664 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Television | |
1665 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Technological | |
1668 | Cultural Issues | Food | Community | |
1670 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Veil | |
1672 | Cultural Issues | History | Founding fathers | |
1674 | Cultural Issues | History | Indian Removal | |
1675 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Religion | |
1676 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Education | |
1677 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Requirements | |
1684 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Ironies of | |
1693 | Cultural Issues | Identity, Personal | Ambiguous | |
1694 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Frontier times | |
1697 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Building structure | |
1703 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Mail delivery | |
1706 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Renovations | |
1708 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Frontier to civilization | |
1710 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Arthritis | |
1711 | Cultural Issues | War | American Revolution | |
1712 | Cultural Issues | War | War of 1812 | |
1713 | Cultural Issues | Government | National authority | |
1716 | Cultural Issues | Government | Right of secession | |
1718 | Cultural Issues | Violence | Lynching | |
1720 | Cultural Issues | Identity, Personal | On frontier | |
1722 | Cultural Issues | Government | Municipal meeting | |
1727 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | And race | |
1730 | Cultural Issues | Cultural Identity | America and opportunity | |
1732 | Cultural Issues | Government | As source of money | |
1733 | Cultural Issues | Government | US Post Office | |
1734 | Cultural Issues | Government | US Bureau of Indian Affairs | |
1735 | Cultural Issues | Government | Federal laws and regulations | |
1737 | Cultural Issues | Government | Secrecy | |
1744 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Vest | |
1745 | Cultural Issues | Law | Alienating |
Any time the legal system alienates a person caught up in it, whether the person is guilty or not. The direct example here is Monk, but Mink Snopes is equally alienated, because he does not understand how the system works and suffers more dire consequences because of it. |
1746 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Gambling | |
1747 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Vagrancy | |
1748 | Cultural Issues | Law | Jury | |
1759 | Cultural Issues | Education | Rural school | |
1761 | Cultural Issues | Education | Illiteracy | |
1762 | Cultural Issues | Law | Miscarriage of justice | |
1765 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Pneumonia | |
1771 | Cultural Issues | Law | Pardon | |
1772 | Cultural Issues | Law | Eyewitness | |
1775 | Cultural Issues | Government | Corruption | |
1776 | Cultural Issues | Law | Clue | |
1778 | Cultural Issues | Law | Alibi | |
1780 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sin | |
1787 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Handbag | |
1791 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Traits |
Indicates when a particular quality is attributed to a character on the basis of their gender, such as when Miss Belle Worsham is described as possessing "some old, timeless, female affinity for blood and grief" (p. 261) in "Go Down, Moses." BR |
1793 | Cultural Issues | Mass Media | Advertising | |
1794 | Cultural Issues | Politics | Republicanism | |
1802 | Cultural Issues | Race | Integration | |
1808 | Cultural Issues | War | Scorched-earth policy |
This refers specifically to the events describing the destruction of Southern plantations, cities, railroads, etc., by Union forces during the Civil War. Frequently the narratives associate these actions directly with "Sherman," a hated name in Faulkner's South. |
1826 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Beaver hat | |
1836 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Hunting clothes | |
1845 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Bachelor | |
1846 | Cultural Issues | Education | Yale | |
1849 | Cultural Issues | Politics | City government | |
1853 | Cultural Issues | Race | Colorism | |
1884 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Virginity | |
1896 | Cultural Issues | Cultural Identity | North vs South | |
1899 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Wedding dress | |
1909 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Fratricide | |
1929 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Institutional | |
1935 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sabbath | |
1940 | Cultural Issues | Race | Stereotype: teeth | |
1945 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Inversion | |
1962 | Cultural Issues | War | Capture | |
1965 | Cultural Issues | Economy | Domestic | |
1971 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Piety | |
1974 | Cultural Issues | Law | Wanted poster |
Any paraphernalia used to publicly identify a possible criminal. The example used is from The Reivers, which refers to a "Bertillon chart or a police poster" (3). JB |
1978 | Cultural Issues | Entertainment | Baseball | |
1983 | Cultural Issues | Law | Firearms |
Any formal or informal practices regarding firearms that are functionally law, whether these practices are recognized in a court or not. For example, the assumption that no one in Maury Priest's workplace would bring a gun in the Reivers or the shop owner who refuses to sells Mink ammunition in the Mansion. This definition also includes legal violations of laws surrounding firearms. JB |
2000 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Frock coat | |
2001 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Waistcoat | |
2002 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Hat | |
2005 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Green eyeshade | |
2007 | Cultural Issues | Class | Declasse |
Whenever a character has suffered a loss of social status, in particular those characters formerly connected with the prominent families of Jefferson. For example, Dan Grinnup who is Louis Grenier's family. J. Burgers |
2009 | Cultural Issues | Class | Homelessness | |
2035 | Cultural Issues | Government | Uncle Sam | |
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 |
2042 | Cultural Issues | Race | Genealogy |
Any time a character's possible racial ancestries is germane to the text. J. Burgers |
2046 | Cultural Issues | Land-Use | Logging | |
2047 | Cultural Issues | Modernity | Changing customs | |
2054 | Cultural Issues | Hunting and Fishing | Marksmanship | |
2059 | Cultural Issues | Materialism | Status |
Any material acquisition that signifies a marker of status. Lucius Priest buying an automobile because Colonel Sartoris had one. J. Burgers. |
2060 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Electrification | |
2064 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Driving gear |