Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
2523 Actions Legal Trial
5216 Actions Legal Warrant
4571 Actions Legal Will
1354 Relationships Marital Abandonment
625 Relationships Marital Abusive
1355 Relationships Marital Adultery
1147 Relationships Marital Alleged
3384 Relationships Marital Arranged
1029 Relationships Marital Arrangements
2992 Relationships Marital As atonement
4954 Relationships Marital Bachelor
1168 Relationships Marital Bigamy
4141 Relationships Marital Breakup
4086 Relationships Marital Certificate
1321 Relationships Marital Civil marriage
893 Relationships Marital Common law
1055 Relationships Marital Conflict
3118 Relationships Marital Death of spouse
1233 Relationships Marital Desertion
4125 Relationships Marital Divorce
628 Relationships Marital Elopement
4196 Relationships Marital Entrapment
1067 Relationships Marital Father in law-son in law
1622 Relationships Marital Forced
3097 Relationships Marital Honeymoon
5353 Relationships Marital Honeymoon
674 Relationships Marital Husband-wife
4867 Relationships Marital Interaction
5385 Relationships Marital Intergenerational
1621 Relationships Marital Interracial
4055 Relationships Marital Jealousy
4991 Relationships Marital Loving
5273 Relationships Marital Marriage vs freedom
4712 Relationships Marital Re-marriage
4151 Relationships Marital Reconciliation
3086 Relationships Marital Secrecy
1328 Relationships Marital Separated
560 Relationships Marital Shotgun marriage
3089 Relationships Marital Social respectability
1013 Relationships Marital Spousal privilege
4552 Relationships Marital Strife
1334 Relationships Marital Vicarious wedding
4058 Relationships Marital Violence
3094 Relationships Marital Wedding
1793 Cultural Issues Mass Media Advertising
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
4482 Cultural Issues Mass Media Graphophone
1286 Cultural Issues Mass Media Magazines
1287 Cultural Issues Mass Media Movies
667 Cultural Issues Mass Media Newspaper
3770 Cultural Issues Mass Media Newspaper comics / funny paper
708 Cultural Issues Mass Media Radio
801 Cultural Issues Mass Media Telephone
3359 Cultural Issues Materialism Americana
3342 Cultural Issues Materialism Machinery or mechanical references

For when a text makes explicit reference to machinery, mechanical issues, or the workings of related items -- e.g., Quentin's references in S&F to the wheels and gears of his watch (and his father's before him). JBP
3360 Cultural Issues Materialism Souvenir
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.
2604 Themes and Motifs Meaning Absurdity
5401 Themes and Motifs Meaning Aesthetic experience
5091 Themes and Motifs Meaning Interpretation
2427 Themes and Motifs Meaning Interpretation of symbol
3833 Themes and Motifs Meaning Limitations of words / language
4457 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maternity
4289 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maybe as concept
2378 Themes and Motifs Meaning Meaninglessness
3160 Themes and Motifs Meaning Misinterpretation
877 Themes and Motifs Meaning Mystery
3820 Themes and Motifs Meaning Paternity
3979 Themes and Motifs Meaning Profound
2237 Themes and Motifs Memory Collective memory
2112 Themes and Motifs Memory Forgetting
5278 Themes and Motifs Memory Haunted by past
4884 Themes and Motifs Memory Not remember
856 Themes and Motifs Memory Remembering
640 Themes and Motifs Memory Remembering passim
4004 Themes and Motifs Memory Sensory memory

When the physical sensation of a particular past event is remembered by a character. BR
1881 Themes and Motifs Memory Uncertain
5171 Actions Mental Accepting
3611 Actions Mental Believing
4370 Actions Mental Calculation
3002 Actions Mental Changing one's mind
1340 Actions Mental Channeling

An unFaulknerian term for what Zilphia does when, in Jefferson, she lives "vicariously and transcendentally" inside the lives of her former husband and his new wife in another state, or what Darl does so often in As I Lay Dying. SR
5494 Actions Mental Compulsion
5127 Actions Mental Confusion
1173 Actions Mental Contemplation
3548 Actions Mental Counting
4987 Actions Mental Curiosity
3556 Actions Mental Day-dreaming
5129 Actions Mental Deciding
4591 Actions Mental Deduction
3685 Actions Mental Disapproval
2912 Actions Mental Disbelief
1203 Actions Mental Discovery
4199 Actions Mental Disorientation
3801 Actions Mental Distraction
3660 Actions Mental Distrust
1314 Actions Mental Dreaming
1966 Actions Mental Economizing

When a character invests effort in thinking strategically about personal or household economy, such as when Cora Tull attempts to pay for her pricey chickens by selling cakes made with the eggs of those chickens in AILD. EP
890 Actions Mental Envisioning
3553 Actions Mental Failing / Failure

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