Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
890 Actions Mental Envisioning
981 Actions Mental Understanding
1150 Actions Mental Remembering
1173 Actions Mental Contemplation
1203 Actions Mental Discovery
1234 Actions Mental Speculation
1314 Actions Mental Dreaming
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
1811 Actions Mental Realization
1838 Actions Mental Self-consciousness
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
1996 Actions Mental Inquiry
2146 Actions Mental Skepticism
2177 Actions Mental Imagining
2207 Actions Mental Impairment
2219 Actions Mental Misunderstanding
2263 Actions Mental Fatalism
2349 Actions Mental Unaware
2499 Actions Mental Nightmare
2646 Actions Mental Submission / Acquiescence
2847 Actions Mental Predicting
2912 Actions Mental Disbelief
2917 Actions Mental Repression
2973 Actions Mental Thinking
3002 Actions Mental Changing one's mind
3047 Actions Mental Hallucinating
3098 Actions Mental Studying
3327 Actions Mental Fantasizing
3517 Actions Mental Learning
3548 Actions Mental Counting
3553 Actions Mental Failing / Failure
3555 Actions Mental Inattentativeness
3556 Actions Mental Day-dreaming
3611 Actions Mental Believing
3660 Actions Mental Distrust
3685 Actions Mental Disapproval
3801 Actions Mental Distraction
3804 Actions Mental Incomprehension
3907 Actions Mental Flashback
4029 Actions Mental Planning
4073 Actions Mental Suppression / trying not to think
4199 Actions Mental Disorientation
4328 Actions Mental Insight
4346 Actions Mental Internal argument
4360 Actions Mental Logically reasoning
4370 Actions Mental Calculation
4591 Actions Mental Deduction
4842 Actions Mental Reinterpretation
4986 Actions Mental Visualize
4987 Actions Mental Curiosity
5121 Actions Mental Knowing
5127 Actions Mental Confusion
5129 Actions Mental Deciding
5155 Actions Mental Forgetting
5171 Actions Mental Accepting
5494 Actions Mental Compulsion
1889 Aesthetics Metafictional Painting
2323 Aesthetics Metafictional Picture/image
2371 Aesthetics Metafictional Projection
2376 Aesthetics Metafictional Signs
3032 Aesthetics Metafictional Merging history and fiction
3055 Aesthetics Metafictional Theatrical setting
1419 Cultural Issues Migration Work

This is used for instances of characters relocating to a different state or country for reasons related to work and employment (i.e., economic migration). BR
2241 Cultural Issues Migration Intraregional migration

This keyword is for characters who move out of Yoknapatawpha to another place inside the South - the "South" being defined in this instance as the former slave-holding states, including the 3 (Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland) that did not secede from the Union. The most typical instance of intraregional migration involves black characters who move to Memphis, like Versh in The Sound and the Fury.  SR

Also it can be used for characters who move into Yoknapatawpha from another place in the South. CR and JJ
2242 Cultural Issues Migration Movement to city

This keyword refers to references or descriptions of characters who move from a less urban to a more urban environment, and is equally appropriate when someone moves from Frenchman's Bend to Jefferson and when someone from Jefferson moves to Memphis or New York. SR
4128 Cultural Issues Migration North
4888 Cultural Issues Migration Big Bottom
1967 Actions Military Escape
2405 Actions Military Enlistment
2521 Actions Military Combat
2589 Actions Military Marching
2591 Actions Military Promotion
2738 Actions Military Riding
3022 Actions Military Destruction of enemy property
3184 Actions Military Retreat
4015 Actions Military Training
4384 Actions Military Rescue
4764 Actions Military Patrol
4766 Actions Military Reconnaissance
4829 Actions Military Capturing prisoners
5214 Actions Military Raid
5428 Actions Military Raising troops
5430 Actions Military Demotion
2047 Cultural Issues Modernity Changing customs
2289 Cultural Issues Modernity Speed

Any time characters experience new speeds as a result of modernization. This could be speeds achieved by car, train, or flight, but also more abstract speeds like the speed of communication due to the telephone. The specific example is when Lucius Priest accidentally spits in his wife's face while motoring. JB
2985 Cultural Issues Modernity Interwar years
4449 Cultural Issues Modernity Modernist style

When text makes fairly explicit reference to "modernism" as a movement, like the cubistic bug in As I Lay Dying or the modernist lampstand in Sanctuary. SR
5603 Cultural Issues Modernity Modernization
1063 Themes and Motifs Money Dowry
1252 Themes and Motifs Money Filthy lucre

When money elicits moral contempt: as tainted, corrupting, compromised, beneath one. JW
1297 Themes and Motifs Money Recovery
1454 Themes and Motifs Money Luxury
1721 Themes and Motifs Money Reward
1723 Themes and Motifs Money In prospect
1789 Themes and Motifs Money Expenses
1997 Themes and Motifs Money Gold
1999 Themes and Motifs Money Loot
2121 Themes and Motifs Money Owed

This keyword is for when a character claims or otherwise believes he or she is owed money (to repay a debt, as payment for labor, etc.). -JBP
2152 Themes and Motifs Money Refund
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

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