Keywords

Term IDsort ascending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
2875 Environment Domestic Space Servants' home

For when a text draws attention to the home of a servant (not necessarily a slave quarter) - the servants' homes in "The Sound and the Fury," for instance, or maybe in "The Unvanquished." -JBP

2874 Themes and Motifs Time Working day
2873 Cultural Issues Gender Work
2872 Cultural Issues Gender All-male space
2871 Themes and Motifs Naming Not knowing person or thing's name

For occasions when a narrative draws attention to a character forgetting or not knowing the word or name of someone or something - Benjy being raised not to know his mother's name in Sound and Fury, for instance, or when Joe Christmas can't think at first of what it is he is eating until he remembers "It's peas." -JBP

2870 Actions Physical Burning
2869 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Quackery
2868 Relationships Civic Pillar of the community
2867 Actions Emotional Coldness
2866 Environment Atmospheric Sterile
2865 Themes and Motifs Character Assertive
2864 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille
2863 Themes and Motifs Objects Skull
2862 Themes and Motifs Past Relics
2861 Cultural Issues War Mexican
2860 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Old Bailey
2859 Cultural Issues Clothes Lace
2858 Environment Olfactory Must
2857 Themes and Motifs Past Family history
2856 Themes and Motifs Character Noisiness
2855 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Growth
2854 Actions Emotional Waiting
2853 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Przemysl
2852 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Rheims
2851 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Thessaloniki
2850 Cultural Issues War Trenches
2849 Aesthetics Narrative Free indirect discourse
2848 Themes and Motifs Character Violent
2847 Actions Mental Predicting
2846 Themes and Motifs Death Wake

For gatherings of mourners prior to actual, formal funerals - for instance, in The Sound and the Fury on the occasion of Damuddy's death (which most likely is a wake rather than a funeral). -JBP

2845 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Arkansas
2844 Relationships Sexual Prostitute-Client
2843 Themes and Motifs Objects Wedding ring
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

2841 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Hickory Flat
2840 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Rainey, Paul DELETE
2839 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Avant, Jim
2838 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Cobb, Ty
2837 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Ruth, George Herman "Babe"
2836 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Peyton, George
2835 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Red Banks
2834 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Saskatchewan
2833 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Wall Street
2832 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Tourism

Tourism generated by annual hunting and fishing seasons. JB

2830 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Ozarks
2829 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Iuka, Mississippi
2828 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Raleigh, Tennessee
2827 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical London
2826 Cultural Issues Clothes Garter
2825 Relationships Institutional Doctor-patient
2824 Cultural Issues Alcohol Ether
2823 Actions Communication Gossip

The original definition here was "informal oral networks", which was too technical, but perhaps more accurate. In essence, gossip here is a means for the whole community to become aware of news. JB

2822 Environment Domestic Space Barn
2821 Aesthetics Language Heh heh heh
2820 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Kiblett, Arkansas
2819 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lord Fauntleroy
2818 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Uncle Remus
2817 Environment Olfactory Sweat
2816 Cultural Issues Gender Sexual Harassment
2815 Cultural Issues Law Corruption
2814 Environment Domestic Space Lean-to
2813 Actions Physical Bathing
2812 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Americans for Democratic Action
2811 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical White Citizens' Council
2810 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Goldwater, Barry
2809 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Roosevelt, Eleanor
2808 Cultural Issues Religion Catholicism
2807 Cultural Issues Religion Islam
2806 Environment Public Pasture

There is already an entry for Domestic Space -> Pasture. This refers to a pasture that is not part of a domestic space. JB

2805 Environment Place Road
2804 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Lucifer
2803 Cultural Issues Progress Regional
2802 Aesthetics Intertextuality Faulkner text
2801 Themes and Motifs Money Payoff

TMT: I added this for the scene in which John Sartoris sends money to the widow of a man whom he killed in The Unvanquished (221), so I don't know whether it will be applicable anywhere else; but nothing else on the list seemed to fit.

2800 Actions Bodily Smelling
2799 Relationships Friendship Adult friends
2798 Cultural Issues Religion Mason

Although the Masons are explicitly not a religion, as a secret fraternal order they do represent a belief system. I have placed them under religion for the time being, until we figure out a better place. JB

2797 Themes and Motifs Objects Saddle
2796 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Africa
2795 Themes and Motifs Animals Lion
2794 Actions Hunting Lion hunting
2793 Actions Hunting Panther hunting
2792 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Rainey, Paul
2791 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lytle, Horace
2790 Themes and Motifs Death Moment of
2789 Actions Physical Gardening
2788 Actions Emotional Repentance
2787 Environment Time of Year September
2786 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Ten Commandments
2785 Actions Interaction, Social Shaking hands
2784 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Sword
2783 Actions Physical Sitting
2782 Relationships Friendship Interracial
2781 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Cain
2780 Aesthetics Language French
2779 Actions Emotional Indignation
2778 Actions Moral Blackmail
2777 Cultural Issues Labor Prostitution

Any instance in which the labor aspects of prostitution are highlighted or discussed. JB

2776 Actions Emotional Homesickness|Longing for home
2775 Cultural Issues Religion Chistian Scientist

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