Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
1919 Actions Verbal Requesting
1677 Cultural Issues Progress Requirements
4384 Actions Military Rescue
4610 Actions Physical Rescuing
1972 Actions Emotional Resentment
3115 Actions Emotional Resignation
312 Cultural Issues Slavery Resistance

To index passages in which slaves are described taking a stand of some kind, usually verbal, against their enslavement. The clearest instances of this involve Loosh and Granny on the Sartoris plantation. (More direct physical forms of resistance are indexed under "Fugitive" and "Revolt.") SR
2108 Themes and Motifs Character Resolve
3861 Themes and Motifs Death Respect
2086 Actions Emotional Respect
562 Cultural Issues Class Respectability
4083 Actions Verbal Responding
945 Themes and Motifs Death Response to
1161 Themes and Motifs Morals Responsibility
1226 Themes and Motifs Character Responsibility
3493 Environment Public Restaurant
1844 Actions Work Restauranteer
1566 Actions Emotional Restlessness
2631 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Restoration / rebuilding
2416 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Restoring order
1081 Actions Violent Restraining
1970 Actions Physical Restraining
3369 Aesthetics Narrative Resumption of sentence after interruption
3331 Cultural Issues Religion Resurrection
4003 Actions Bodily Retching
4127 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Retelling
4172 Actions Verbal Reticence
2658 Cultural Issues Clothes Reticule
4028 Cultural Issues Economy Retirement
3184 Actions Military Retreat
4772 Cultural Issues War Retreat
1171 Cultural Issues Law Retrial
5737 Cultural Issues Violence Retribution
576 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Return
834 Actions Movement Return
963 Cultural Issues War Return
2633 Cultural Issues War Return from war
4693 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Return from war
1280 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Return home
2907 Themes and Motifs Time Return to present time
2686 Cultural Issues War Return to war
4198 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Return to Yoknapatawpha
4398 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Reunion
2888 Actions Verbal Revealing

Whenever a character accidentally or intentionally reveals an important piece of information. For example, Lucius revealing that Miss Corrie's real name is Everbe to Boon in The Reivers (212).
4858 Cultural Issues Religion Revelation
4367 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Revenge
2492 Cultural Issues War Revenge
904 Cultural Issues Law Revenue officer
1989 Aesthetics Narrative Revision
3081 Aesthetics Narrative Revisionary
298 Cultural Issues Slavery Revolt
1721 Themes and Motifs Money Reward
2852 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Rheims
4548 Actions Verbal Rhetorical question
2471 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Rheumatism
3466 Cultural Issues Education Rhodes Scholar
2675 Cultural Issues Clothes Ribbons
2105 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Richard I of England
4394 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Richmond, Virginia
5050 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Rider in jail
1870 Actions Physical Riding
5016 Cultural Issues Clothes Riding
2738 Actions Military Riding
1230 Actions Movement Riding
1138 Themes and Motifs Morals Right

As in rightness, explicitly considered as a moral issue. JW
1716 Cultural Issues Government Right of secession
5329 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Right-of-way

Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR
2645 Themes and Motifs Objects Ring
5049 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ringo whips Ab
2639 Cultural Issues Race Riots
2635 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Ripple
5232 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Risque
2940 Cultural Issues Age Rite of passage

Any challenge or ritualized moment in which a person goes from child to adult. The other option here is coming of age, but felt like a more passive, ambiguous movement over time, when what is meant here is someone having an active, singular moment in which he or she becomes an adult. For example, Lucius winning the horse race in The Reivers (274). JB
1629 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Ritual
4526 Environment Domestic Space Ritual
475 Cultural Issues (First level term) Ritual
4254 Cultural Issues Religion Rituals and rites
700 Relationships Commercial Rivalry
967 Actions Interaction, Private Rivalry
725 Relationships Intergenerational Rivalry
2071 Environment Natural River
2044 Environment Place River-bottom
691 Environment Public Road
2805 Environment Place Road
5495 Cultural Issues Progress Road traffic
765 Cultural Issues Progress Roads
5478 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Robinson Crusoe
5018 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Robinson Crusoe
3823 Environment Natural Rocks / stones
3973 Environment Auditory Rodent sounds
4391 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Roland of Roncesvalles
3986 Actions Physical Rolling / wallowing
5623 Aesthetics Symbolism Roman
2357 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Roman consul
5593 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Roman salute
1795 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Roman senator
3462 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Romance
3659 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Romance / Romanticism
1575 Relationships Interracial Romantic
404 Relationships (First level term) Romantic

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