Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
3841 Themes and Motifs Death Dying wish
4335 Themes and Motifs Death Epitaph
2699 Themes and Motifs Death Eulogy
988 Themes and Motifs Death Execution
931 Themes and Motifs Death Funeral
3717 Themes and Motifs Death Funeral pyre / cremation
844 Themes and Motifs Death Future
2878 Themes and Motifs Death Hearse
4677 Themes and Motifs Death Imagined
1349 Themes and Motifs Death In childbirth
985 Themes and Motifs Death Indian burial practices
3917 Themes and Motifs Death Killing oneself slowly
4933 Themes and Motifs Death Left for dead
3303 Themes and Motifs Death Like death
3419 Themes and Motifs Death Liminal

For events in which the boundary between life and death is blurred, such as when Dewey Dell describes her father as looking "like right after the maul hits the steer and it no longer alive and dont yet know that it is dead." EKP
3270 Themes and Motifs Death Longing for death
2790 Themes and Motifs Death Moment of
4790 Themes and Motifs Death Moving a dead body
2229 Themes and Motifs Death Murder
5352 Themes and Motifs Death Of parent
4440 Themes and Motifs Death Plane accident
3518 Themes and Motifs Death Preparing for death
3861 Themes and Motifs Death Respect
945 Themes and Motifs Death Response to
4746 Themes and Motifs Death Spousal
1537 Themes and Motifs Death Suicide
4886 Themes and Motifs Death Suspicious
2846 Themes and Motifs Death Wake

For gatherings of mourners prior to actual, formal funerals - for instance, in The Sound and the Fury on the occasion of Damuddy's death (which most likely is a wake rather than a funeral). -JBP
1730 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity America and opportunity
3195 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity American
5375 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity And nationality
2447 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Anglophile
3661 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Country vs city
4698 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Jewish
3031 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Lost Cause
3207 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Multiculturalism
1896 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity North vs South
4745 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Outlander
2388 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Puritan
4849 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Savagism
3663 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Southern identity
4819 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Trans-regional
5013 Cultural Issues Crime And race
4714 Cultural Issues Crime Arson
3101 Cultural Issues Crime Blackmail
722 Cultural Issues Crime Bootlegging
940 Cultural Issues Crime Breaking and entering
2584 Cultural Issues Crime Bribe

Any payoff to law enforcement or other institution to circumvent the strictures of the law. In The Reivers Lucius Priest refers to this as "blackmail" (112). This is meant ironically. JB
4593 Cultural Issues Crime Car theft
2544 Cultural Issues Crime Cattle rustling
2545 Cultural Issues Crime Commercial sexual exploitation

Undoubtedly the more common term searched will be "prostitution". The aim of this term is to identify the crime being actively committed by the pimps and bordello madams. JB
2987 Cultural Issues Crime Drug addiction
3795 Cultural Issues Crime Embezzlement
2959 Cultural Issues Crime Extortion
596 Cultural Issues Crime Forgery
1909 Cultural Issues Crime Fratricide
5316 Cultural Issues Crime Fraud

This type of fraud is distinct from action: moral :: fraud in the sense that there are legal consequences. The specific example here is from "Death Drag" where Ginsfarb has a plane that is unlicensed and purchased a license from another plane that was allowed to fly thereby "compound[ing] another felony" (194). JHB
1746 Cultural Issues Crime Gambling
4594 Cultural Issues Crime Grave robbing
4578 Cultural Issues Crime Horse theft
4595 Cultural Issues Crime Innocence
4791 Cultural Issues Crime Interruption
3063 Cultural Issues Crime Kidnapping
2335 Cultural Issues Crime Looting
968 Cultural Issues Crime Making whisky
969 Cultural Issues Crime Manslaughter
3934 Cultural Issues Crime Moonshining
750 Cultural Issues Crime Murder
4877 Cultural Issues Crime Numbers
990 Cultural Issues Crime Penalty for
3838 Cultural Issues Crime Prevention
2986 Cultural Issues Crime Prostitution
5282 Cultural Issues Crime Racialized
4634 Cultural Issues Crime Rape
4938 Cultural Issues Crime Sedition
592 Cultural Issues Crime Theft|Robbery
4939 Cultural Issues Crime Treason
1747 Cultural Issues Crime Vagrancy
1424 Cultural Issues Crime Vigilantism

This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR
4780 Cultural Issues Crime Voter fraud
2001 Cultural Issues Crime Waistcoat
626 Themes and Motifs Community African-American
2331 Themes and Motifs Community Alienation
2724 Themes and Motifs Community Carnival
3703 Themes and Motifs Community Columbus Day
3598 Themes and Motifs Community Conformity
4856 Themes and Motifs Community Cooperation
1596 Themes and Motifs Community Crowd
3411 Themes and Motifs Community Decoration Day
5595 Themes and Motifs Community Gathering
4136 Themes and Motifs Community Knowledge
3382 Themes and Motifs Community Local legends

I created this term in response to the local legend of Melisandre Backus Harriss that Chick inherits in "Knight's Gambit."--LW
3546 Themes and Motifs Community Opinion
4652 Themes and Motifs Community Ordinary
3407 Themes and Motifs Community Parade
3437 Themes and Motifs Community Populace
2083 Themes and Motifs Community Posse
2429 Themes and Motifs Community Preserving order
1920 Themes and Motifs Community Secrecy
676 Themes and Motifs Community Social life

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