Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent |
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Description |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
3481 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Female stereotype | |
4434 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Feminine | |
4006 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Feminine man | |
639 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Femininity | |
530 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fence | |
3355 | Cultural Issues | Entertainment | Ferris wheel | |
2542 | Actions | Movement | Ferry | |
3692 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Fertilise / Fertility imagery | |
1913 | Actions | Movement | Fetching | |
5604 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Fetishism | |
1442 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Fever | |
836 | Relationships | Romantic | Fiance | |
5253 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fiddle | |
4313 | Environment | Domestic Space | Field | |
1023 | Environment | Place | Field | |
307 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Field slaves vs house slaves | |
5107 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Fielding, Henry | |
5314 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Fields, Lew |
Part of the vaudeville comedy duo Weber and Fields. JHB |
550 | Actions | Violent | Fighting | |
408 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Figures of Speech | |
1756 | Environment | Public | Filling Station | |
1252 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Filthy lucre |
When money elicits moral contempt: as tainted, corrupting, compromised, beneath one. JW |
4129 | Cultural Issues | Identity, Personal | Financial independence | |
2127 | Actions | Physical | Finding |
For when the text refers to the explicit act of someone or something being found; may include things found that were not actually being searched for. (Cf. Luster's search for a quarter, and the other things he finds.) -JBP |
3554 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Fingers | |
3872 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Fire | |
1112 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fire | |
3429 | Environment | Natural | Fire | |
5264 | Environment | Atmospheric | Fire | |
4054 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Fire | |
5612 | Environment | Olfactory | Fire | |
875 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fire on the hearth | |
1983 | Cultural Issues | Law | Firearms |
Any formal or informal practices regarding firearms that are functionally law, whether these practices are recognized in a court or not. For example, the assumption that no one in Maury Priest's workplace would bring a gun in the Reivers or the shop owner who refuses to sells Mink ammunition in the Mansion. This definition also includes legal violations of laws surrounding firearms. JB |