Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
314 Cultural Issues Slavery Discipline

For passages that depict or refer to any elements of the system by which slaves were policed or punished, like the "Patrollers" who patrolled roads after dark to prevent slaves from leaving plantations. SR
1916 Actions Domestic Discipline
2128 Actions Physical Discovering

For instances when a character literally discovers someone or something -- Mrs. Gant finding her daughter with a boy lying together in a blanket, for instance. Distinct from the MENTAL act of discovery (which is also a keyword in this database). -JBP
3174 Themes and Motifs Past Discovering it
1203 Actions Mental Discovery
1070 Actions Verbal Discussion
5266 Themes and Motifs Money Disdaining money
4408 Themes and Motifs Death Disease
1902 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Disease
3426 Themes and Motifs Psychological Disembodiment
3669 Cultural Issues Race Disenfranchisement
5094 Actions Violent Disfigurement
1497 Cultural Issues Clothes Disguise
4614 Actions Emotional Disgust
3648 Cultural Issues Sexuality Disgust with sex
5187 Themes and Motifs Objects Dishes
3809 Themes and Motifs Morals Dishonor
5307 Actions Bodily Dismemberment
4866 Actions Work Dismissal
4063 Actions Legal Dismissing a case
4605 Actions Work Dismissing from work
503 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Disorder
5257 Cultural Issues Clothes Disordered
4199 Actions Mental Disorientation
2133 Cultural Issues War Displacement
2669 Cultural Issues History Dispossessing Indians
3012 Themes and Motifs Exile Dispossession
4868 Aesthetics Narrative Disruption
2678 Cultural Issues Class Disruption
1910 Relationships Familial Dissolution
4188 Themes and Motifs Home Distance from home

For moments when somebody thinks how far they've come from where they live. SR
3801 Actions Mental Distraction
3660 Actions Mental Distrust
600 Environment Place Ditch
3649 Environment Natural Ditches
1930 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Divine intervention
3109 Cultural Issues Religion Divine judgment
1779 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Divine plan
3701 Cultural Issues Education Divinity school
1446 Cultural Issues Race Division
4125 Relationships Marital Divorce
3752 Actions Legal Divorce
1936 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Djinn
3943 Actions Work Doctor / medical care
2825 Relationships Institutional Doctor-patient
3944 Relationships Commercial Doctor-patient
4725 Relationships Hierarchical Doctor-patient
1379 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Doctoring
5562 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Doddsville, Mississippi
3790 Environment Auditory Dog barking
3793 Actions Non-human Dog barking
4008 Themes and Motifs Animals Dog-fox
3067 Themes and Motifs Objects Dogfennel
618 Themes and Motifs Animals Dogs
3441 Environment Domestic Space Dollhouse
2151 Themes and Motifs Objects Dolls
1085 Actions (First level term) Domestic
4993 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Domestic
665 Cultural Issues Violence Domestic
673 Cultural Issues Labor Domestic
1965 Cultural Issues Economy Domestic
2295 Relationships Interracial Domestic

This term denotes significant moments in interracial relationships within the domestic sphere. This is outside of the more binary Master-Slave or Master-Servant relationship. For example, the African-American servants in the Priest household feel little compunction about yelling at Boon, a white man. This term therefore captures those moments in which domestic labor did not cut along distinctly racial lines, although they do have a racial charge. JB
274 Cultural Issues Slavery Domestic labor
333 Environment (First level term) Domestic Space
1079 Actions Violent Domestic violence
2148 Actions Interaction, Private Domineering
2387 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Don Juan
4302 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Don Quixote
4527 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Donne, John
2337 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Doom
1589 Environment Atmospheric Doom
5039 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Doom becomes chief
609 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Door
1308 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Dots

This is for the occasions when Faulkner uses a series of dots as a feature of his prose - i.e. ". . ." or ". . . . . ." We can't call these dots ellipses, because they do not represent anything being left out of the text. The most disconcerting use of this technique is in "Miss Zilphia Gant." SR
849 Aesthetics Diction Double entendre
4635 Cultural Issues Gender Double standard
1063 Themes and Motifs Money Dowry
1064 Cultural Issues Economy Dowry
5102 Actions Perceptual Dowsing
993 Cultural Issues War Draft
2665 Cultural Issues War Draft evasion / Draft dodging
2490 Actions Violent Dragging
4304 Actions Physical Dragging
2189 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Dragon's teeth
3511 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Drained marsh
3759 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Drama / Theatre imagery
3580 Environment Public Drawbridge
2727 Actions Physical Drawing
4860 Themes and Motifs Texts Drawing
4520 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Drawing of an eye
5010 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Drawing of delta
4377 Environment Domestic Space Drawing room
5128 Actions Emotional Dread
509 Environment Atmospheric Dread
2023 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dream
2671 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dream turns to dust
1314 Actions Mental Dreaming
1880 Actions Physical Dreaming
3460 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Dreiser, Theodore
1421 Cultural Issues Clothes Dress

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