Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
4992 Cultural Issues Food Dependable
5143 Cultural Issues Food Crackers
5172 Cultural Issues Food Pie
5179 Cultural Issues Food Peas
5315 Cultural Issues Food Gum

Chewing gum
5493 Cultural Issues Food Coca-Cola
5512 Cultural Issues Food Animal crackers
5618 Cultural Issues Food Brunswick stew
5642 Cultural Issues Food Sandwich
5653 Cultural Issues Food Milk
5677 Cultural Issues Food Biscuits
5678 Cultural Issues Food Greens
5679 Cultural Issues Food Buttermilk
5709 Cultural Issues Food Spaghetti
5730 Cultural Issues Food Peach
5761 Cultural Issues Food Steak
5773 Cultural Issues Food Potato
5801 Cultural Issues Food Corn
5802 Cultural Issues Food Ginger snaps
1298 Relationships Friendship Childhood friends
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
2361 Relationships Friendship Male-male attraction
2590 Relationships Friendship Male-male relationship
2782 Relationships Friendship Interracial
2799 Relationships Friendship Adult friends
2892 Relationships Friendship Adult-child
3274 Relationships Friendship College roommate
3306 Relationships Friendship College companions / classmates
3557 Relationships Friendship School classmates
1345 Themes and Motifs Futility When will it stop
3162 Themes and Motifs Futility Failure to defend honor
3172 Themes and Motifs Futility Illusion of success or victory
4218 Themes and Motifs Futility Nothing to do

"There's nothing else I can do now," Elly thinks (207). Reaching a point where no further options or ways forward can be imagined.
4641 Themes and Motifs Futility Inability
5023 Themes and Motifs Futility In battle
322 Cultural Issues Gender Reproduction
323 Cultural Issues Gender Marriage
561 Cultural Issues Gender Women
585 Cultural Issues Gender Masculinity
638 Cultural Issues Gender Men vs women
639 Cultural Issues Gender Femininity
662 Cultural Issues Gender Chivalry
807 Cultural Issues Gender War
924 Cultural Issues Gender Southern woman
1272 Cultural Issues Gender Masculine woman
1365 Cultural Issues Gender Maternal impulse
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
1523 Cultural Issues Gender Patriarchy
1640 Cultural Issues Gender Body
1643 Cultural Issues Gender Clothing
1655 Cultural Issues Gender Widow
1791 Cultural Issues Gender Traits

Indicates when a particular quality is attributed to a character on the basis of their gender, such as when Miss Belle Worsham is described as possessing "some old, timeless, female affinity for blood and grief" (p. 261) in "Go Down, Moses." BR
1845 Cultural Issues Gender Bachelor
1945 Cultural Issues Gender Inversion
2267 Cultural Issues Gender Labor
2294 Cultural Issues Gender Changing relationships

Any time the changing norms and values surrounding gender are commented upon. JB
2364 Cultural Issues Gender Cross-dress
2619 Cultural Issues Gender Transsexuality
2816 Cultural Issues Gender Sexual Harassment
2842 Cultural Issues Gender Separate spaces

Not the most refined word for this concept, but essentially different spaces in which women and men can move. This is not like segregation or separate spheres, rather existing social norms that prevent, generally women, from entering certain spaces like hotels, saloons, bootleg joints, etc. JB
2872 Cultural Issues Gender All-male space
2873 Cultural Issues Gender Work
3052 Cultural Issues Gender Idealization
3083 Cultural Issues Gender Male domination
3458 Cultural Issues Gender Taste
3481 Cultural Issues Gender Female stereotype
3622 Cultural Issues Gender Lady
3688 Cultural Issues Gender Chauvinism / Misogyny
3730 Cultural Issues Gender Sexual double standard

For when a text makes references to the double standards between men and women; also can apply to double standard for women - Madonna/whore (or virgin/whore). Added for when Mrs Compson posits that a woman is either a lady or not (referring to Caddy and her dishonor). JBP
3748 Cultural Issues Gender Bitch
3829 Cultural Issues Gender Chastity / purity
3887 Cultural Issues Gender Mama's boy
3888 Cultural Issues Gender New Woman
3939 Cultural Issues Gender Stereotype librarian / school teacher
3945 Cultural Issues Gender Menstruation / menstrual cycle
3950 Cultural Issues Gender Women as gentler sex / delicate
3953 Cultural Issues Gender Women as mysterious / secretive
3968 Cultural Issues Gender Dirty girl
3983 Cultural Issues Gender Male body
3991 Cultural Issues Gender Female body
4006 Cultural Issues Gender Feminine man
4140 Cultural Issues Gender Black women
4438 Cultural Issues Gender Flapper
4622 Cultural Issues Gender Male rivalry
4635 Cultural Issues Gender Double standard
4643 Cultural Issues Gender Male gaze
4672 Cultural Issues Gender Fluidity
4696 Cultural Issues Gender And religion
4701 Cultural Issues Gender Women as sacred
4833 Cultural Issues Gender Lady's accoutrements
5262 Cultural Issues Gender Male rescuer
5263 Cultural Issues Gender Female in peril
5324 Cultural Issues Gender Woman smoking
5326 Cultural Issues Gender makeup
5371 Cultural Issues Gender Gentleman
5443 Cultural Issues Gender And marriage
5786 Cultural Issues Gender Ungendered

In The Hamlet Houston and Mrs Littlejohn are referred to as "ungendered" (216). The phrasing is curious, but the implication is that they do not have genders. This may the only time this occurs in Faulkner, but it is still worth mentioning. JB
5789 Cultural Issues Gender Women as aggressive
501 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Tall tale
520 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Gothic

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