Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
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
2314 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Illusion
2366 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Imitation
4905 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Killing first deer/marked with blood
4483 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Laughter as sign of madness
1352 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Life as repetition
3271 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Little sister
2659 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mausoleum
2622 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mediation

Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC
1332 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Nothingness
2653 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Odor
1985 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Open secret

Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB
1923 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Paradox
2310 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Performance
2181 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Precognition / Something to happen

For when a character precognitively senses or says that "something" is going to happen to him/her - e.g., Joe Christmas, Miss Zilphia Gant. JBP
2626 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Reality
2946 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Recovery
2631 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Restoration / rebuilding
4398 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Reunion
4367 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Revenge
5329 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Right-of-way

Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR
1541 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Scandal
2453 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Searching
2383 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Secret
3043 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sending someone to Jackson
845 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sexual power
3064 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Shadows
2876 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sleeping in same bed

For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP
2978 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Smelled like trees
3746 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sole owner and proprietor
2592 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Solitary
2030 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Solitude
2607 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sound of a gunshot
3418 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Stillness
1933 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sun / Sunlight
3539 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Thinking of home
1948 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Threshold
1259 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Tomorrow and tomorrow
2609 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Touch
1950 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Triumph
779 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Trying to say
1024 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Twilight
873 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Upward mobility
4210 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Vanishing
3417 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Vitality
4910 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Year the stars fell

Added to refer to Faulkner's reference in at least two texts to 1833, "the year the stars fell" (in Appendix and in Go Down, Moses). Seems to refer to an actual historical event of a massive meteor shower that year which many interpreted as an omen, possibly even of end of times. Here is one article referencing the event: https://www.ancestry.com/contextux/historicalinsights/night-stars-fell-m.... JBP
4830 Cultural Issues Region Hapless Yankees
1219 Cultural Issues Region Hospitality
948 Cultural Issues Region Lost Cause
5182 Cultural Issues Region New England
1582 Cultural Issues Region North
1652 Cultural Issues Region Reconstruction
2712 Cultural Issues Region Rural South
1155 Cultural Issues Region The South

When a narrator or character explicitly foregrounds the region as distinctive, problematic, or otherwise noteworthy. JW
1574 Cultural Issues Region The West
2347 Cultural Issues Religion African American

Religion with regard to either African-Americans or the African-American community. The particular example here is of Lucius Priest in the The Reivers who imagines a "Negro" sermonizing about a moral decision. R 61.8. JB
1479 Cultural Issues Religion Amulet
4857 Cultural Issues Religion And class
3876 Cultural Issues Religion Apotheosis
4556 Cultural Issues Religion Atheism
5383 Cultural Issues Religion Baptism
1641 Cultural Issues Religion Baptist
1471 Cultural Issues Religion Bible
4458 Cultural Issues Religion Blessing
4454 Cultural Issues Religion camp meeting
2808 Cultural Issues Religion Catholicism
2137 Cultural Issues Religion Challenge

When characters actively set themselves at odds with a religious deity or institution, such as when Jewel in AILD gripes, "if there is a God what the hell is He for." EP
2775 Cultural Issues Religion Chistian Scientist
5693 Cultural Issues Religion Christening
4515 Cultural Issues Religion Christianity
3298 Cultural Issues Religion Church service
4596 Cultural Issues Religion Communion
4463 Cultural Issues Religion Consolation
3328 Cultural Issues Religion Damnation
3009 Cultural Issues Religion Deist
3109 Cultural Issues Religion Divine judgment
1642 Cultural Issues Religion Episcopal
5153 Cultural Issues Religion Fanaticism
5103 Cultural Issues Religion Folk superstition
4820 Cultural Issues Religion Forgiveness
4453 Cultural Issues Religion Free Will
3612 Cultural Issues Religion God
3614 Cultural Issues Religion God with human characteristics

For when God is described as human-like -- added for when Quentin said God is "not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too." JBP
961 Cultural Issues Religion Godhead
4456 Cultural Issues Religion Heresy
3715 Cultural Issues Religion Hinduism
4684 Cultural Issues Religion Hymns
1929 Cultural Issues Religion Institutional
2807 Cultural Issues Religion Islam
4554 Cultural Issues Religion Judaism
4753 Cultural Issues Religion Lay preacher
5476 Cultural Issues Religion Martyrdom
2798 Cultural Issues Religion Mason

Although the Masons are explicitly not a religion, as a secret fraternal order they do represent a belief system. I have placed them under religion for the time being, until we figure out a better place. JB
2106 Cultural Issues Religion Methodism
1971 Cultural Issues Religion Piety
5452 Cultural Issues Religion Pre-Christian
3137 Cultural Issues Religion Preacher / Minister
4555 Cultural Issues Religion Presbyterian

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