Keywords
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Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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1669 | Environment | Atmospheric | Chaos | |
1668 | Cultural Issues | Food | Community | |
1667 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Arrival | |
1666 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Wedding | |
1665 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Technological | |
1664 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Television | |
1663 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Invention | |
1662 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Historical | |
1661 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Explorers | |
1660 | Cultural Issues | History | Explorers | |
1659 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Frame |
Though somewhat obvious, this refers to a "nested" narrative where a story is told by someone to someone else. The example here is the opening of The Reivers, where the entire text is framed as being told to Lucius III by Lucius II. JB |
1658 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Umbrella | |
1657 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Bonnet | |
1656 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Mourning | |
1655 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Widow | |
1654 | Actions | Emotional | Defeat | |
1653 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Trunk | |
1652 | Cultural Issues | Region | Reconstruction | |
1651 | Actions | Emotional | Crying | |
1650 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Self-Reflective | |
1649 | Actions | Emotional | Embarrassment | |
1648 | Actions | Work | Getting water | |
1647 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Surrey | |
1646 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Parasol | |
1645 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Shawl | |
1644 | Actions | Domestic | Teaching | |
1643 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Clothing | |
1642 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Episcopal | |
1641 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Baptist | |
1640 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Body | |
1639 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Withholding | |
1638 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Anti-climax | |
1637 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Epiphany | |
1636 | Aesthetics | Language | Indian | |
1635 | Cultural Issues | Land-Use | Agricultural | |
1634 | Cultural Issues | Land-Use | Spiritual | |
1633 | Cultural Issues | Hunting and Fishing | Annual | |
1632 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Funeral | |
1631 | Relationships | Friendship | Racial |
I did not create this definition, but I read this as friendships that occur by virtue of people being of the same race. For example, Ned and Ephum in the Reivers are surrounded by white people and form friendship. Not sure how this term is meant to be used though. JB |
1630 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Moral authority | |
1629 | Cultural Issues | Hunting and Fishing | Ritual | |
1628 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Initiation | |
1627 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Old days | |
1626 | Actions | Hunting | Turkey hunting | |
1625 | Actions | Hunting | Racoon hunting | |
1624 | Relationships | Interracial | Indian-white | |
1623 | Cultural Issues | Class | Blood | |
1622 | Relationships | Marital | Forced | |
1621 | Relationships | Marital | Interracial | |
1620 | Actions | Hunting | Blowing horn | |
1619 | Actions | Verbal | Honor | |
1618 | Actions | Hunting | Tracking | |
1617 | Cultural Issues | Age | Old age | |
1616 | Actions | Hunting | Waiting | |
1615 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Antlers | |
1614 | Actions | Hunting | Breaking camp | |
1613 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Perspective |
I added this for "The Old People," 206.5, to describe how the narrator sees Sam Fathers growing smaller and smaller as the hunting party leaves him behind. I don't really like the term that I chose but I couldn't think of anything else. LW |
1612 | Actions | Emotional | Self-doubt | |
1611 | Actions | Hunting | Rabbit hunting | |
1610 | Actions | Hunting | Teaching | |
1609 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Inscrutable |
I added this for "The Old People," 205.3, to reflect the lack of emotion that Sam Fathers shows. LW |
1608 | Environment | Time of Year | November | |
1607 | Actions | Hunting | Possum | |
1606 | Aesthetics | Diction | Native American languages |
I created this for "The Old People," 204.2, because the emphasis is on the "old tongue" that Sam Fathers speaks. LW |
1605 | Aesthetics | Diction | Hill dialect | |
1604 | Actions | Bodily | Squatting | |
1603 | Actions | Economic | Carpentry | |
1602 | Actions | Economic | Blacksmithing | |
1601 | Actions | Movement | Running away | |
1600 | Cultural Issues | Race | Native American |
I added this in addition to the more specific Indian tribal identifications because I thought that it would be useful to have a larger umbrella term for users searching for Faulkner's Native American material. LW |
1599 | Actions | Emotional | Excitement | |
1598 | Actions | Bodily | Drinking | |
1597 | Actions | Bodily | Thirsting | |
1596 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Crowd | |
1595 | Environment | Natural | Swamp | |
1594 | Relationships | Hierarchical | Master-slave | |
1593 | Actions | Bodily | Decomposition | |
1592 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Totem | |
1591 | Actions | Non-human | Attack | |
1590 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Snake | |
1589 | Environment | Atmospheric | Doom | |
1588 | Cultural Issues | Violence | Killing animal | |
1587 | Cultural Issues | Race | Miscegenation | |
1586 | Actions | Bodily | Panting | |
1585 | Cultural Issues | History | Great Migration |
This term is widely used by historians to refer to the movement of some six million African Americans out of the South and into the urban North and West between the First World War and the 1960s. Samuel Worsham Beauchamp, who in the 1930s leaves Yoknapatawpha to live in Chicago in "Go Down, Moses," is an example of a character who participates in the Great Migration. SR |
1584 | Cultural Issues | Race | Segregation | |
1583 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Love | |
1582 | Cultural Issues | Region | North | |
1581 | Relationships | Interracial | Marriage | |
1580 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Interracial | |
1579 | Cultural Issues | Segregation | Marriage | |
1578 | Actions | Work | Teaching | |
1577 | Cultural Issues | Race | Racial spheres |
TMT: I created this keyword to highlight the differences between the young woman's racial experience in the North and the South, where certain kinds of labor are done by certain races--in this case, taking in laundry by black women. |
1576 | Relationships | Familial | Extended family | |
1575 | Relationships | Interracial | Romantic | |
1574 | Cultural Issues | Region | The West | |
1573 | Relationships | Romantic | Extra-marital | |
1572 | Actions | Perceptual | Ambiguity | |
1571 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Bad conduct | |
1570 | Actions | Communication | Without words |
When someone communicates by means of something other than words (written or spoken); for example, the envelope full of money Boyd wants Ike to give his mistress, or the verbena that Drusilla leaves on Bayard's pillow. |