Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
1937 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Tornado
3919 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Toy bear / teddybear
3588 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Toys
5615 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Train / locomotive imagery
3914 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Treadmill
4170 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Vernacular
3787 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Violent in figurative sense

For when a text uses "violent" in a figurative sense for things not actually violent -- violent fecundity, for instance, or "cheap violent blues" of someone's clothing. JBP

1886 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Voice
627 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Water
4372 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Weaponry imagery
4102 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Wild breath
2318 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Woodpile
5512 Cultural Issues Food Animal crackers
1353 Cultural Issues Food As substitute
4541 Cultural Issues Food Banana
4185 Cultural Issues Food Bear meat
2210 Cultural Issues Food Birthday cake
5677 Cultural Issues Food Biscuits
2673 Cultural Issues Food Bread
865 Cultural Issues Food Breakfast
5618 Cultural Issues Food Brunswick stew
5679 Cultural Issues Food Buttermilk
3940 Cultural Issues Food Cake
2475 Cultural Issues Food Candy
784 Cultural Issues Food Cannibalism
5493 Cultural Issues Food Coca-Cola
3929 Cultural Issues Food Coffee
1668 Cultural Issues Food Community
5143 Cultural Issues Food Crackers
4992 Cultural Issues Food Dependable
3069 Cultural Issues Food Eggs
5678 Cultural Issues Food Greens
5315 Cultural Issues Food Gum

Chewing gum

4542 Cultural Issues Food Ham
2440 Cultural Issues Food Ice-cream
3361 Cultural Issues Food Leftovers
2674 Cultural Issues Food Meat
5653 Cultural Issues Food Milk
3859 Cultural Issues Food Peanut
5179 Cultural Issues Food Peas
5172 Cultural Issues Food Pie
3745 Cultural Issues Food Pumpkin pie
4174 Cultural Issues Food Race

This keyword should be used when food is connected to race. Examples could include when certain foods are coded racially or when food consumption is related to racial identity. CR

5642 Cultural Issues Food Sandwich
4864 Cultural Issues Food Scarcity
4781 Cultural Issues Food Soda
4352 Cultural Issues Food Sugar
2799 Relationships Friendship Adult friends
2892 Relationships Friendship Adult-child
1298 Relationships Friendship Childhood friends
3306 Relationships Friendship College companions / classmates
3274 Relationships Friendship College roommate
2782 Relationships Friendship Interracial
2361 Relationships Friendship Male-male attraction
2590 Relationships Friendship Male-male relationship
1631 Relationships Friendship Racial

I did not create this definition, but I read this as friendships that occur by virtue of people being of the same race. For example, Ned and Ephum in the Reivers are surrounded by white people and form friendship. Not sure how this term is meant to be used though. JB

3557 Relationships Friendship School classmates
3162 Themes and Motifs Futility Failure to defend honor
3172 Themes and Motifs Futility Illusion of success or victory
5023 Themes and Motifs Futility In battle
4641 Themes and Motifs Futility Inability
4218 Themes and Motifs Futility Nothing to do

"There's nothing else I can do now," Elly thinks (207). Reaching a point where no further options or ways forward can be imagined.

1345 Themes and Motifs Futility When will it stop
2872 Cultural Issues Gender All-male space
5443 Cultural Issues Gender And marriage
4696 Cultural Issues Gender And religion
1845 Cultural Issues Gender Bachelor
3748 Cultural Issues Gender Bitch
4140 Cultural Issues Gender Black women
1640 Cultural Issues Gender Body
2294 Cultural Issues Gender Changing relationships

Any time the changing norms and values surrounding gender are commented upon. JB

3829 Cultural Issues Gender Chastity / purity
3688 Cultural Issues Gender Chauvinism / Misogyny
662 Cultural Issues Gender Chivalry
1643 Cultural Issues Gender Clothing
2364 Cultural Issues Gender Cross-dress
3968 Cultural Issues Gender Dirty girl
4635 Cultural Issues Gender Double standard
3991 Cultural Issues Gender Female body
5263 Cultural Issues Gender Female in peril
1477 Cultural Issues Gender Female intuition

This is any event in which women are able to "intuit" gender relationships. The case in point is in My Grandmother Millard where Granny intuits the budding relationship between Melisandre and Cousin Phillip. Although the projection is certainly Faulkner's, it ties into broader nineteenth and twentieth century patriarchal notions of feminine intuition. Joost Burgers

3481 Cultural Issues Gender Female stereotype
4006 Cultural Issues Gender Feminine man
639 Cultural Issues Gender Femininity
4438 Cultural Issues Gender Flapper
4672 Cultural Issues Gender Fluidity
5371 Cultural Issues Gender Gentleman
3052 Cultural Issues Gender Idealization
1945 Cultural Issues Gender Inversion
2267 Cultural Issues Gender Labor
3622 Cultural Issues Gender Lady
4833 Cultural Issues Gender Lady's accoutrements
5326 Cultural Issues Gender makeup
3983 Cultural Issues Gender Male body
3083 Cultural Issues Gender Male domination
4643 Cultural Issues Gender Male gaze
5262 Cultural Issues Gender Male rescuer
4622 Cultural Issues Gender Male rivalry
3887 Cultural Issues Gender Mama's boy
323 Cultural Issues Gender Marriage

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