Keywords

Term IDsort ascending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
3034 Cultural Issues Entertainment Television
3033 Cultural Issues Entertainment Civic events
3032 Aesthetics Metafictional Merging history and fiction
3031 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Lost Cause
3030 Cultural Issues Education Negro education
3029 Cultural Issues History Reconstruction
3028 Cultural Issues History Southern secession
3027 Cultural Issues History Compromise of 1850
3026 Cultural Issues Government State laws and regulations
3023 Themes and Motifs Texts Military communications
3022 Actions Military Destruction of enemy property
3021 Cultural Issues Government Legislative action
3020 Themes and Motifs Money Social force
3019 Cultural Issues Progress As loss
3018 Cultural Issues Law Frontier justice
3017 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Hare
3016 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Harpe
3015 Cultural Issues History Colonization
3014 Cultural Issues History Arrival of whites in Mississippi
3013 Themes and Motifs Past Repetition
3012 Themes and Motifs Exile Dispossession
3011 Themes and Motifs Animals Bison
3010 Themes and Motifs Animals Alligators
3009 Cultural Issues Religion Deist
3008 Themes and Motifs Past Prehistory
3007 Cultural Issues Land-Use Prehuman landscape
3006 Environment Natural Prehistoric forces
3005 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Capitalization
3004 Cultural Issues Government State capital
3003 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Old vs new selves
3002 Actions Mental Changing one's mind
3001 Cultural Issues Entertainment Beach resort
3000 Themes and Motifs Texts Telegram
2999 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Sleeping pill
2998 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Slipping out at night

I needed a way to convey characters who secretly leave at night for some reason - Miss Quentin in S&F, but there is also Lena Grove and Joe Christmas in Light in August and probably others. Perhaps this could/should be a recurring trope? -JBP
2997 Themes and Motifs Objects Jimson weed

Also known as Jamestown weed. -JBP
2996 Environment Olfactory Weed
2995 Themes and Motifs Body Mouth
2994 Cultural Issues Entertainment Magic trick
2993 Cultural Issues Education Virginia
2992 Relationships Marital As atonement
2991 Actions Verbal Accusatory
2990 Actions Emotional Guilt
2989 Cultural Issues Class Gentility
2988 Cultural Issues Alcohol Sobriety
2987 Cultural Issues Crime Drug addiction
2986 Cultural Issues Crime Prostitution
2985 Cultural Issues Modernity Interwar years
2984 Environment Domestic Space Apartment
2983 Environment Auditory Unseen voice
2982 Aesthetics Narrative Theatrical effect
2981 Aesthetics Symbolism Theatrical
2980 Themes and Motifs Death Death sentence
2979 Actions Legal Pronouncing sentence
2978 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Smelled like trees
2977 Actions Physical Embrace / hugging
2976 Actions Physical Touching
2975 Themes and Motifs Objects Swing
2974 Relationships Familial Uncle-niece
2973 Actions Mental Thinking
2972 Cultural Issues Clothes Bathrobe
2971 Cultural Issues Agriculture Matched team of horses or mules
2970 Cultural Issues Agriculture Hay
2969 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Nihilism
2968 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Arcadia
2967 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Latin pastoral poetry
2966 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Horace
2965 Cultural Issues Age Baby
2964 Themes and Motifs Time Series of events experienced as long duration
2963 Cultural Issues Alcohol Manhood
2962 Aesthetics Language Yah-yah-yah
2961 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Hangover
2960 Environment Place Speakeasy
2959 Cultural Issues Crime Extortion
2958 Themes and Motifs Animals Fish
2957 Environment Auditory Barking
2956 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Gaines's Mill
2955 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Chickhahominy River
2954 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Porter, Fitz-John
2953 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Hampton, Wade
2952 Cultural Issues Identity, Cultural Northerner
2951 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Manassas, Horse
2950 Themes and Motifs Objects Fishing rod
2949 Environment Domestic Space Office
2948 Cultural Issues Race Black family working for white
2947 Relationships Romantic Unrequited
2946 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Recovery
2945 Actions Violent Interracial
2944 Cultural Issues Law Incarceration

There are already a number of similar words in the keyword list that denote some type of legal confinement. This one is meant to indicate the general concept of going to jail, not the direct action of someone being sent to jail or prison. JB
2943 Themes and Motifs Money Won
2942 Actions Communication Car horn
2941 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Monteagle, Tennessee
2940 Cultural Issues Age Rite of passage

Any challenge or ritualized moment in which a person goes from child to adult. The other option here is coming of age, but felt like a more passive, ambiguous movement over time, when what is meant here is someone having an active, singular moment in which he or she becomes an adult. For example, Lucius winning the horse race in The Reivers (274). JB
2939 Cultural Issues Economy Banking
2938 Themes and Motifs Values Conservatism

Here conservatism is meant as a value and is politically agnostic. It is roughly being used as prudence, common sense, and tradition all wrapped up in one. JB
2937 Actions Emotional Intuition
2936 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Alps
2935 Environment Domestic Space Ladies parlor
2934 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Stroke
2933 Cultural Issues Violence Gendered

A violent action in which the gender dynamic plays a salient feature. The specific example is Boon hitting Miss Corrie in The Reivers. JB

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