Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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2337 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Doom | |
2343 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dead time | |
2366 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Imitation | |
2383 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Secret | |
2398 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Eternal feminine | |
2453 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Searching | |
2474 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Hands in pockets | |
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 |
2592 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Solitary | |
2607 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sound of a gunshot | |
2609 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Touch | |
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 |
2623 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fairy-tale | |
2625 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Echo | |
2626 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Reality | |
2631 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Restoration / rebuilding | |
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 |
2653 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Odor | |
2659 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Mausoleum | |
2671 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dream turns to dust | |
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 |
2946 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Recovery | |
2978 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Smelled like trees | |
3043 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sending someone to Jackson | |
3064 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Shadows | |
3271 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Little sister | |
3279 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Father said | |
3417 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Vitality | |
3418 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Stillness | |
3539 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Thinking of home | |
3746 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sole owner and proprietor | |
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 |
4209 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Apparition | |
4210 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Vanishing | |
4216 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Apotheosis | |
4236 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dark house | |
4349 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Design | |
4367 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Revenge | |
4398 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Reunion | |
4399 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Glory | |
4483 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Laughter as sign of madness | |
4905 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Killing first deer/marked with blood | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
948 | Cultural Issues | Region | Lost Cause | |
1155 | Cultural Issues | Region | The South |
When a narrator or character explicitly foregrounds the region as distinctive, problematic, or otherwise noteworthy. JW |
1219 | Cultural Issues | Region | Hospitality | |
1574 | Cultural Issues | Region | The West | |
1582 | Cultural Issues | Region | North | |
1652 | Cultural Issues | Region | Reconstruction | |
2712 | Cultural Issues | Region | Rural South | |
4830 | Cultural Issues | Region | Hapless Yankees | |
5182 | Cultural Issues | Region | New England | |
961 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Godhead | |
1471 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Bible | |
1479 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Amulet | |
1592 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Totem | |
1641 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Baptist | |
1642 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Episcopal | |
1780 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sin | |
1929 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Institutional | |
1935 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sabbath | |
1971 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Piety | |
2106 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Methodism | |
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 |
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 |
2456 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Social welfare as substitute | |
2775 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Chistian Scientist | |
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 |
2807 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Islam | |
2808 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Catholicism | |
3009 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Deist | |
3074 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Religious faith | |
3102 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Relationship with God | |
3109 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Divine judgment | |
3137 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Preacher / Minister | |
3273 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Religious art or iconography | |
3298 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Church service | |
3328 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Damnation | |
3331 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Resurrection | |
3612 | Cultural Issues | Religion | God | |
3613 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sacrilege | |
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 |
3715 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Hinduism | |
3876 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Apotheosis | |
4254 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Rituals and rites | |
4354 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Voodoo | |
4453 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Free Will | |
4454 | Cultural Issues | Religion | camp meeting | |
4456 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Heresy | |
4458 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Blessing | |
4463 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Consolation | |
4515 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Christianity | |
4517 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sermon | |
4554 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Judaism | |
4555 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Presbyterian | |
4556 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Atheism | |
4596 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Communion | |
4655 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Uncharitable |