Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
5029 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Bayard avenges Johnny
5034 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy accosts schoolgirl
5611 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy castrated
5204 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy committed
5036 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy's name changed
5053 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Boon shoots Negro
5048 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Buck and Buddy's experiment
5038 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Burying Sartoris silver
5031 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Byron robs bank
5055 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Byron Snopes' children
5074 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Caddy's marriage ends
5073 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Caddy's wedding
5028 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Colonel Sartoris killed
5208 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Compson land acquired
5207 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Compsons sell pasture
5058 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Confederate monument unveiled
5213 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Confederate raid in Memphis
5069 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes De Spain creates camp
5039 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Doom becomes chief
5063 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Driving to Goodwin's
5047 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Etching name on window
5071 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Eula's medallion unveiled
5042 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes First settlers arrive
5060 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Flem and Eula marry
5215 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Flem reaches Jefferson
5054 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes General Compson's military record
5210 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Harriss' death
5068 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Henry kills Bon
5070 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Houston murdered
5075 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
5043 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Indian removal
5059 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Jefferson's first car
5027 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Jenny arrives
5030 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Johnny Sartoris shot down
5061 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Looking upon evil
5212 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Mannie Hait cashes check
5211 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Mannie's death
5072 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes McCarron ambushed
5035 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Miss Quentin runs away
5051 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Nancy confronts white man
5217 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Narcissa marries Bayard
5033 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Narcissa's anonymous letters
5025 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Negro voting
5024 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Old Bayard's death
5041 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Old Frenchman's arrival
5220 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Plantation to housing development
5067 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Popeye's execution
5076 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Quentin's suicide
2245 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Recurring event, intertextual

When Faulkner in one text refers to or re-writes an event that also occurs in other text(s), for example the account of Miss Quentin climbing down the pear tree (in The Sound and the Fury) or the rain pipe (as the same event has it in the "Appendix" and The Mansion. SR
2244 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Recurring event, intratextual

When Faulkner refers to or re-writes an event more than once inside a single text, for example the four references to Caddy's muddy drawers in Benjy and Quentin's sections of The Sound and the Fury. SR
5050 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Rider in jail
5049 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ringo whips Ab
5040 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris builds railroad
5026 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris captures Yankees
5045 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris deposed
5078 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris escapes Yankees
5044 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris raises regiment
5057 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sutpen rejects KKK
5052 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sutpen's arrival
5064 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Temple at Goodwin's
5065 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Temple at Reba's
5062 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Temple leaves train
5066 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Temple testifying
5037 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Texas horses auctioned
5665 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Tommy's murder
5219 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Trying to kill Gualdres
5631 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Wash charges posse
5630 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Wash kills Sutpen
5206 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Will Mayes lynched
5032 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Young Bayard's death
1202 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes "Wait"

Spoken by a character to pause or slow down narration by another character so s/he can process the significance or take over the narration. The classic examples are from ABSALOM, but it's a signature verbal formula across Faulkner. JW
4216 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Apotheosis
4209 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Apparition
1982 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Belatedness
3850 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Beyond

I added this keyword to mark places where a character or text contemplates or imagines exceeding ordinary or usual boundaries. Specifically, this was added for when Quentin starts imagining "a hell beyond that" for him and Caddy. It can be used when "beyond" or a similar construction is used in figurative ways. JBP
2511 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Chasing a person

For the many instances when a human being is hunted by others - the slave in "Red Leaves," the architect in Absalom!, Christmas several times in Light in August, Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, etc. SR
2204 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Confederate monument
5338 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Constitutive moment

A moment in a character's story when something happens that changes the arc of his or her life. For example, when in Absalom! Thomas Sutpen is turned away from the front door of that Tidewater plantation. Or in The Mansion, when Houston tells Mink Snopes he still owes the one dollar "pound fee" (28). SR
4236 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dark house
2343 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dead time
4349 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Design
2183 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Destiny
2337 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Doom
609 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Door
2023 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dream
2671 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dream turns to dust
2625 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Echo
1177 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Endurance
2398 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Eternal feminine
2623 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fairy-tale
1927 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fatality
3279 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Father said
875 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fire on the hearth
2651 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fixation

The action or process of fixing or being fixed. For instance, In AA!, characters find themselves fixed in place, unable to move beyond something either spatially or conceptually. JC
1032 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Gaze
4399 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Glory
1256 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Going fast
785 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Going to Texas
867 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Gossip
2474 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Hands in pockets

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