Keywords

Term IDsort descending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
3036 Aesthetics Style Index
3037 Aesthetics Style Long sentence passim
3038 Aesthetics Narrative Foreshadowing
3039 Themes and Motifs Objects Booksatchel
3040 Cultural Issues Sexuality Birth control
3041 Actions Physical Escape from confinement
3042 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Jackson as synonym for state insane hospital
3043 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sending someone to Jackson
3044 Cultural Issues Violence Mistaken for sexual assault
3045 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Surgery
3046 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Surgical castration
3047 Actions Mental Hallucinating
3048 Actions Economic Offering to sell
3049 Actions Economic Taking without paying

Somewhat distinct from stealing; this is for when someone confiscates, keeps, or otherwise takes something for which payment might ordinarily be expected. (The incident of the golfer keeping the golf ball that Luster tries to sell to him, for example.) -JBP

3050 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Gettysburg
3051 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Cumberland Gap|Cumberland Mountains
3052 Cultural Issues Gender Idealization
3053 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Wilde, Oscar
3054 Actions Emotional Mourning
3055 Aesthetics Metafictional Theatrical setting
3056 Aesthetics Description Stage direction
3057 Environment Time of Day Wee hours
3058 Environment Place Official office
3059 Themes and Motifs Past As explanatory
3060 Themes and Motifs Naming And caste
3061 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Hypocritical
3062 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Collaborative
3063 Cultural Issues Crime Kidnapping
3064 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Shadows
3065 Themes and Motifs Values Evil
3066 Themes and Motifs Objects Chair
3067 Themes and Motifs Objects Dogfennel
3068 Themes and Motifs Money Stingy with money
3069 Cultural Issues Food Eggs
3070 Environment Auditory Clock ticking
3071 Environment Auditory Rain on roof
3072 Actions Physical Nonverbal taunting or teasing
3073 Actions Moral Punishment
3074 Cultural Issues Religion Religious faith
3075 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical New Testament Book of Revelation
3076 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Book of life
3077 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Bandage
3078 Actions Bodily Feeling pain
3079 Themes and Motifs Objects Cushion
3080 Cultural Issues Clothes Shirtsleeves
3081 Aesthetics Narrative Revisionary
3082 Cultural Issues Sexuality Impotence
3083 Cultural Issues Gender Male domination
3085 Aesthetics Tone Ironic
3086 Relationships Marital Secrecy
3087 Cultural Issues Sexuality Voyeurism
3088 Aesthetics Narrative Contested

I created this to capture scenes when two or more characters interrupt each other's attempt to create a narrative - specifically, in the context of the way Gavin (and sometimes the Governor) seize on parts of Temple's story that she would rather not dwell on. SR

3089 Relationships Marital Social respectability
3090 Actions Emotional Apathy
3091 Actions Physical Travel
3092 Themes and Motifs Texts Novel
3093 Themes and Motifs Past Freedom from it
3094 Relationships Marital Wedding
3095 Actions Moral Purification
3096 Cultural Issues Identity, Cultural America vs Europe
3097 Relationships Marital Honeymoon
3098 Actions Mental Studying
3099 Themes and Motifs Death Anticipation of death
3100 Actions Verbal Sharing confidences
3101 Cultural Issues Crime Blackmail
3102 Cultural Issues Religion Relationship with God
3103 Themes and Motifs Money As motive
3104 Relationships Romantic Sexual
3105 Themes and Motifs Objects Scissors
3106 Aesthetics Symbolism Reflection

Created for when a text makes explicit reference to mirrored reflection that has potential symbolic importance - created to capture Benjy's repeated references to a mirror in the library (of fire, of Caddy) that in the present day is gone (leaving only a door-like discoloration on the wall where it once had been). -JBP

3107 Aesthetics Ambiguity Unspecified shapes
3108 Themes and Motifs Objects Pencil
3109 Cultural Issues Religion Divine judgment
3110 Environment Domestic Space Dressing room
3111 Actions Bodily Kissing
3112 Themes and Motifs Objects Baby bottle
3113 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Hollywood
3114 Actions Bodily Kneeling
3115 Actions Emotional Resignation
3116 Cultural Issues Race Black incarceration
3117 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Of loved one
3118 Relationships Marital Death of spouse
3119 Themes and Motifs Objects Handkerchief
3120 Aesthetics Interpretation Theodicy
3121 Relationships Familial Cohesion
3122 Aesthetics Narrative Origin
3123 Themes and Motifs Values Sacrifice
3124 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Salvation
3125 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Redemption
3126 Actions Verbal Calling

To cover when a character calls or summons someone else (cf. Dilsey calling Miss Quentin to supper). Could also perhaps be used for when someone uses a telephone to call someone else, though that might be conveyed by other keywords as well. -JBP

3127 Actions Verbal Wishing
3128 Actions Verbal Refusing
3129 Cultural Issues Sexuality First sexual encounter or experience

There did not seem to be a keyword for one's first time having sex, so I added this. JBP

3130 Actions Physical Pushing away
3131 Aesthetics Narrative First-person passim throughout section
3132 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Loss of innocence
3133 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Folklore
3134 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Superstitions
3135 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Horror story
3136 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Ghost story

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