Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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5018 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Robinson Crusoe | |
765 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Roads | |
5495 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Road traffic | |
691 | Environment | Public | Road | |
2805 | Environment | Place | Road | |
2044 | Environment | Place | River-bottom | |
2071 | Environment | Natural | River | |
700 | Relationships | Commercial | Rivalry | |
967 | Actions | Interaction, Private | Rivalry | |
725 | Relationships | Intergenerational | Rivalry | |
4254 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Rituals and rites | |
1629 | Cultural Issues | Hunting and Fishing | Ritual | |
4526 | Environment | Domestic Space | Ritual | |
475 | Cultural Issues | (First level term) | Ritual | |
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 |
5232 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Risque | |
2635 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Ripple | |
2639 | Cultural Issues | Race | Riots | |
5049 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Ringo whips Ab | |
2645 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Ring | |
5329 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Right-of-way |
Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR |
1716 | Cultural Issues | Government | Right of secession | |
1138 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Right |
As in rightness, explicitly considered as a moral issue. JW |
1870 | Actions | Physical | Riding | |
5016 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Riding | |
2738 | Actions | Military | Riding | |
1230 | Actions | Movement | Riding | |
5050 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Rider in jail | |
4394 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Richmond, Virginia | |
2105 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Richard I of England | |
2675 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Ribbons | |
3466 | Cultural Issues | Education | Rhodes Scholar | |
2471 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Rheumatism | |
4548 | Actions | Verbal | Rhetorical question | |
2852 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Rheims | |
1721 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Reward | |
298 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Revolt | |
3081 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Revisionary | |
1989 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Revision | |
904 | Cultural Issues | Law | Revenue officer | |
4367 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Revenge | |
2492 | Cultural Issues | War | Revenge | |
4858 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Revelation | |
2888 | Actions | Verbal | Revealing |
Whenever a character accidentally or intentionally reveals an important piece of information. For example, Lucius revealing that Miss Corrie's real name is Everbe to Boon in The Reivers (212). |
4398 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Reunion | |
4198 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Return to Yoknapatawpha | |
2686 | Cultural Issues | War | Return to war | |
2907 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Return to present time | |
1280 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Return home | |
2633 | Cultural Issues | War | Return from war | |
4693 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Return from war | |
576 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Return | |
834 | Actions | Movement | Return | |
963 | Cultural Issues | War | Return | |
1171 | Cultural Issues | Law | Retrial | |
3184 | Actions | Military | Retreat | |
4772 | Cultural Issues | War | Retreat | |
4028 | Cultural Issues | Economy | Retirement | |
2658 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Reticule | |
4172 | Actions | Verbal | Reticence | |
4127 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Retelling | |
4003 | Actions | Bodily | Retching | |
3331 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Resurrection | |
3369 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Resumption of sentence after interruption | |
1081 | Actions | Violent | Restraining | |
1970 | Actions | Physical | Restraining | |
2416 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Restoring order | |
2631 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Restoration / rebuilding | |
1566 | Actions | Emotional | Restlessness | |
1844 | Actions | Work | Restauranteer | |
3493 | Environment | Public | Restaurant | |
1161 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Responsibility | |
1226 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Responsibility | |
945 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Response to | |
4083 | Actions | Verbal | Responding | |
562 | Cultural Issues | Class | Respectability | |
3861 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Respect | |
2086 | Actions | Emotional | Respect | |
2108 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Resolve | |
312 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Resistance |
To index passages in which slaves are described taking a stand of some kind, usually verbal, against their enslavement. The clearest instances of this involve Loosh and Granny on the Sartoris plantation. (More direct physical forms of resistance are indexed under "Fugitive" and "Revolt.") SR |
3115 | Actions | Emotional | Resignation | |
1972 | Actions | Emotional | Resentment | |
4610 | Actions | Physical | Rescuing | |
4384 | Actions | Military | Rescue | |
1677 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Requirements | |
1919 | Actions | Verbal | Requesting | |
2649 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Reputation | |
1794 | Cultural Issues | Politics | Republicanism | |
2576 | Cultural Issues | Politics | Republican |
In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB |
322 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Reproduction | |
2917 | Actions | Mental | Repression | |
4224 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Repression | |
4178 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Reported narration passim in section | |
4165 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Reported narration passim | |
2081 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Reported narration |
For when a character reports what some other character has told him/her about something that has happened - typically for things that the narrator was not present to see in person. -JBP |
1939 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Replica | |
4010 | Actions | Verbal | Repetition | |
3013 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Repetition | |
982 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Repetition | |
2788 | Actions | Emotional | Repentance |