Keywords

Term IDsort ascending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
5807 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Architect builds Old Frenchman's place
5806 Environment Weather Wind
5805 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Argos
5804 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Baltimore
5803 Themes and Motifs Objects Barrel
5802 Cultural Issues Food Ginger snaps
5801 Cultural Issues Food Corn
5800 Actions Agricultural Wrangling
5799 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Job
5798 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Home remedy
5797 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Frenchman's Bend
5796 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Jefferson

This version of Jefferson is distinct from Environment -> Place, because it is being used to refer to Jefferson from a place that is not Jefferson (i.e. Frenchman's Bend). This is particularly pronounced in The Hamlet where Jefferson becomes an idealized reference point.
5795 Cultural Issues Class Itinerant

This refers to a specific subset of sharecroppers and tenant farmers who are forced to move to different locations from season to season. This is particularly true of the Snopeses. The first use is Mink's family who moves constantly.
5794 Environment Public Logging trail
5793 Cultural Issues Sexuality Infertility
5792 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Babylon
5791 Actions Work Longshoreman
5790 Actions Agricultural Herding
5789 Cultural Issues Gender Women as aggressive
5788 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Pharisee
5787 Cultural Issues Sexuality Fecundity
5786 Cultural Issues Gender Ungendered

In The Hamlet Houston and Mrs Littlejohn are referred to as "ungendered" (216). The phrasing is curious, but the implication is that they do not have genders. This may the only time this occurs in Faulkner, but it is still worth mentioning. JB
5785 Cultural Issues Agriculture Pound fee
5784 Themes and Motifs Objects Garland
5783 Environment Atmospheric Smoke
5782 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Appalachia
5781 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Polynesia
5780 Themes and Motifs Objects Brass knuckles
5779 Cultural Issues Sexuality Male control female sexuality
5778 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Olympus
5777 Cultural Issues Sexuality Sexualizing a minor

This term is used to describe Labove's attraction to Eula who at the time is 8-13 years old. Arguably, it could be used in other instances. JB
5776 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Vulcan
5775 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Golgotha
5774 Cultural Issues Religion Pagan
5773 Cultural Issues Food Potato
5772 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mississippi Valley
5771 Themes and Motifs Community Acceptance
5770 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Thucydides
5769 Themes and Motifs Character Ascetic
5768 Themes and Motifs Objects Perambulator
5766 Cultural Issues Age Precocious
5765 Themes and Motifs Character Decent
5764 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Gorgon
5763 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Maine
5762 Actions Bodily Barefooted
5761 Cultural Issues Food Steak
5760 Cultural Issues Economy Expansion

This is the net effect of economic rationalization the expansion of businesses. This keyword was created with Flem's takeover of Frenchman's Bend and Jefferson in mind. JB
5759 Cultural Issues Sexuality Virility
5758 Actions Work Shodding
5757 Actions Economic Rationalization

The act of making refining business practices to maximize profit and market share. Flem does this to the Varners' various enterprises by instituting standard pricing and thorough record keeping. JB
5756 Environment Auditory Machine

The specific instance where this is used is in The Hamlet to refer to the sound of a cotton gin, but can be used to describe any sounds of industrialization.
5755 Themes and Motifs Community Stability

This particular term is in reference to The Hamlet where the Snopeses disrupt the natural order of things, but then the community of Frenchman's Bend returns to its old ways. It is a cycle of disruption and stability, where a return to normalcy is prized above all else. JB
5754 Relationships Commercial Wholesaler-Merchant
5753 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Columbia, Tennessee
5752 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Kansas
5751 Cultural Issues Clothes Sunbonnet
5750 Cultural Issues Sexuality Celibacy
5749 Environment Weather calm before storm
5748 Themes and Motifs Objects Separator
5747 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ab Snopes Horse trading
5746 Actions Physical Stomping
5745 Cultural Issues Agriculture Manure
5744 Aesthetics Language Anaphora
5743 Themes and Motifs Past Unknown/concealed past
5742 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Old insult (abiding affront)
5741 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Monster / monstrous
5740 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Family oral tradition
5739 Themes and Motifs Inheritance Hereditary culpability
5738 Aesthetics Narrative Flash forward
5737 Cultural Issues Violence Retribution
5736 Aesthetics Description Color black
5735 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Catullus
5734 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Bilbo, Theodore
5733 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Thomas, Norman
5732 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Truman, Harry S.
5731 Cultural Issues Religion Jesus
5730 Cultural Issues Food Peach
5729 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Deere, Alan Christopher
5728 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Beurling, George Frederick
5727 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Finucane, Brendan Eamonn Fergus
5726 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Aitken, Max
5725 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Malan, Adolph
5724 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Deere, Alan Christopher
5723 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Beurling, George Frederick
5722 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Malan, Adolph
5721 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Finucane, Brendan Eamonn Fergus
5720 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Aitken, Max
5719 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Hoover, J. Edgar
5718 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Hoover, Herbert
5717 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Frankenstein
5716 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lenin, Vladimir
5715 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Washington, Booker T.
5714 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Carver, George Washington
5713 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Malraux, Andre
5712 Themes and Motifs Texts Satire
5711 Actions Military Service
5710 Environment Public Airport
5709 Cultural Issues Food Spaghetti
5708 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Stalin, Joseph
5707 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Mussolini, Benito

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