Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
4963 Aesthetics Interpretation Explanatory passage
2261 Actions Moral Exploitation
4979 Cultural Issues Politics Exploitative
1660 Cultural Issues History Explorers
1661 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Explorers
4299 Actions Violent Explosion
5093 Actions Interaction, Social Exposure
2287 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Expression

Any common expression, saying, or proverb that Faulkner uses. For example, "cat on a hot stove" or "sticks out like a horse in a duck pond." JB
1576 Relationships Familial Extended family
4251 Actions Physical Extinguishing fire
2959 Cultural Issues Crime Extortion
1573 Relationships Romantic Extra-marital
850 Cultural Issues Sexuality Extra-marital
4523 Relationships Sexual Extramarital
1341 Actions Emotional Exultation
1157 Cultural Issues Law Eye for an eye

I opted for the more familiar phrase over "Talionic code of justice" to facilitate searching. JW
2161 Themes and Motifs Objects Eyeglasses
3740 Themes and Motifs Body Eyelashes
584 Themes and Motifs Body Eyes
915 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Eyes
1204 Aesthetics Description Eyes
1772 Cultural Issues Law Eyewitness
1545 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Face
629 Themes and Motifs Body Face
3867 Cultural Issues Progress Factory
4694 Actions Work Factory
5483 Actions Economic Factory labor
5484 Environment Place Factory|Plant
3553 Actions Mental Failing / Failure
3162 Themes and Motifs Futility Failure to defend honor
1318 Actions Bodily Fainting
2623 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fairy-tale
2408 Themes and Motifs Morals Faith
2172 Themes and Motifs Values Faithfulness

Faithfulness as a general virtue, synonymous with fidelity and/or loyalty (unless others think those merit a separate keyword entry). Wasn't sure if this should go here or go also or instead under Actions > Emotions. JBP
544 Environment Time of Year Fall
3642 Actions Bodily Falling
1210 Themes and Motifs Naming False name
1831 Relationships Social Fame
400 Relationships (First level term) Familial
4893 Environment Atmospheric Familiar
3901 Actions Perceptual Familiarity
313 Cultural Issues Slavery Family
5281 Relationships Familial Family as shackle
1304 Actions Verbal Family history
2857 Themes and Motifs Past Family history
4476 Themes and Motifs Values Family honor
5740 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Family oral tradition
4851 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Family role
4250 Themes and Motifs Values Family values

Not to be confused with the contemporary politically charged term. Rather, these are values shared by all or most members of the family. It's what your mamma or daddy taught you. JB and EP
2466 Themes and Motifs Objects Fan
5153 Cultural Issues Religion Fanaticism
2915 Cultural Issues Clothes Fancy
3327 Actions Mental Fantasizing
2611 Aesthetics Narrative Fantasy

Whenever a narrator engages in an event that she or he knows to be pure fantasy or wish fulfillment. JC
1447 Cultural Issues Mass Media Fantasy

The fantasies generated in viewers, readers, or listeners by the mass media. What in "Dry September," in reference to Hollywood cinema, Faulkner calls "the silver dream." BR
3753 Cultural Issues Sexuality Fantasy
1370 Aesthetics Tone Farce
866 Environment Place Farm
881 Environment Place Farm
1833 Actions Agricultural Farming
813 Actions Work Farming
3634 Cultural Issues Agriculture Farming
1010 Cultural Issues Labor Farming
1154 Cultural Issues Agriculture Farming life
4205 Themes and Motifs Objects Farming tools
4169 Actions Emotional Fascination
4608 Actions Bodily Fasting
4607 Actions Physical Fasting
2263 Actions Mental Fatalism
1927 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fatality
1278 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Fate
2532 Themes and Motifs Determinism Fated

Created to describe a situation that seems meant to be, as when Susan Reed seems destined for Hawkshaw's barbershop in "Hair." --LW & BR
1067 Relationships Marital Father in law-son in law
3279 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Father said
565 Relationships Familial Father-daughter
514 Relationships Familial Father-son
4108 Relationships Familial Father-son in law
3942 Themes and Motifs Appearance Fatness / obesity
2802 Aesthetics Intertextuality Faulkner text
2300 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Faustus
4452 Relationships Familial Favoritism
505 Actions Emotional Fear
5552 Cultural Issues Sexuality Fear of sex
1229 Environment Time of Year February
5787 Cultural Issues Sexuality Fecundity
3785 Environment Natural Fecundity / lushness
5461 Cultural Issues Government Federal Bureau of Investigation
1735 Cultural Issues Government Federal laws and regulations
5555 Cultural Issues Law Federal vs state crime
1236 Actions Domestic Feeding
3078 Actions Bodily Feeling pain
3764 Relationships Social Fellow alumni of a college or university
1360 Cultural Issues Sexuality Female
610 Relationships Intergenerational Female
3991 Cultural Issues Gender Female body
2516 Cultural Issues Education Female education
4996 Actions Interaction, Social Female gathering
5263 Cultural Issues Gender Female in peril
1477 Cultural Issues Gender Female intuition

This is any event in which women are able to "intuit" gender relationships. The case in point is in My Grandmother Millard where Granny intuits the budding relationship between Melisandre and Cousin Phillip. Although the projection is certainly Faulkner's, it ties into broader nineteenth and twentieth century patriarchal notions of feminine intuition. Joost Burgers
3789 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Female monsters

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