Keywords
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Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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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 |