Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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5211 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Mannie's death | |
5072 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | McCarron ambushed | |
5035 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Miss Quentin runs away | |
5051 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Nancy confronts white man | |
5217 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Narcissa marries Bayard | |
5033 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Narcissa's anonymous letters | |
5025 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Negro voting | |
5024 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Old Bayard's death | |
5041 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Old Frenchman's arrival | |
5220 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Plantation to housing development | |
5067 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Popeye's execution | |
5076 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Quentin's suicide | |
2245 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Recurring event, intertextual |
When Faulkner in one text refers to or re-writes an event that also occurs in other text(s), for example the account of Miss Quentin climbing down the pear tree (in The Sound and the Fury) or the rain pipe (as the same event has it in the "Appendix" and The Mansion. SR |
2244 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Recurring event, intratextual |
When Faulkner refers to or re-writes an event more than once inside a single text, for example the four references to Caddy's muddy drawers in Benjy and Quentin's sections of The Sound and the Fury. SR |
5050 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Rider in jail | |
5049 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Ringo whips Ab | |
5040 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Sartoris builds railroad | |
5026 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Sartoris captures Yankees | |
5045 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Sartoris deposed | |
5078 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Sartoris escapes Yankees | |
5044 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Sartoris raises regiment | |
5057 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Sutpen rejects KKK | |
5052 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Sutpen's arrival | |
5064 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Temple at Goodwin's | |
5065 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Temple at Reba's | |
5062 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Temple leaves train | |
5066 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Temple testifying | |
5037 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Texas horses auctioned | |
5219 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Trying to kill Gualdres | |
5631 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Wash charges posse | |
5630 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Wash kills Sutpen | |
5206 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Will Mayes lynched | |
5032 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Young Bayard's death | |
1202 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | "Wait" |
Spoken by a character to pause or slow down narration by another character so s/he can process the significance or take over the narration. The classic examples are from ABSALOM, but it's a signature verbal formula across Faulkner. JW |
4216 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Apotheosis | |
4209 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Apparition | |
1982 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Belatedness | |
3850 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Beyond |
I added this keyword to mark places where a character or text contemplates or imagines exceeding ordinary or usual boundaries. Specifically, this was added for when Quentin starts imagining "a hell beyond that" for him and Caddy. It can be used when "beyond" or a similar construction is used in figurative ways. JBP |
2511 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Chasing a person |
For the many instances when a human being is hunted by others - the slave in "Red Leaves," the architect in Absalom!, Christmas several times in Light in August, Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, etc. SR |
2204 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Confederate monument | |
5338 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Constitutive moment |
A moment in a character's story when something happens that changes the arc of his or her life. For example, when in Absalom! Thomas Sutpen is turned away from the front door of that Tidewater plantation. Or in The Mansion, when Houston tells Mink Snopes he still owes the one dollar "pound fee" (28). SR |
4236 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dark house | |
2343 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dead time | |
4349 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Design | |
2183 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Destiny | |
2337 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Doom | |
609 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Door | |
2023 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dream | |
2671 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dream turns to dust | |
2625 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Echo | |
1177 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Endurance | |
2398 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Eternal feminine | |
2623 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fairy-tale | |
1927 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fatality | |
3279 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Father said | |
875 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fire on the hearth | |
2651 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fixation |
The action or process of fixing or being fixed. For instance, In AA!, characters find themselves fixed in place, unable to move beyond something either spatially or conceptually. JC |
1032 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Gaze | |
4399 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Glory | |
1256 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Going fast | |
785 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Going to Texas | |
867 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Gossip | |
2474 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Hands in pockets | |
2314 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Illusion | |
2366 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Imitation | |
4905 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Killing first deer/marked with blood | |
4483 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Laughter as sign of madness | |
1352 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Life as repetition | |
3271 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Little sister | |
2659 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Mausoleum | |
2622 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Mediation |
Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC |
1332 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Nothingness | |
2653 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Odor | |
1985 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Open secret |
Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB |
1923 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Paradox | |
2310 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Performance | |
2181 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Precognition / Something to happen |
For when a character precognitively senses or says that "something" is going to happen to him/her - e.g., Joe Christmas, Miss Zilphia Gant. JBP |
2626 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Reality | |
2946 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Recovery | |
2631 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Restoration / rebuilding | |
4398 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Reunion | |
4367 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Revenge | |
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 |
1541 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Scandal | |
2453 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Searching | |
2383 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Secret | |
3043 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sending someone to Jackson | |
845 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sexual power | |
3064 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Shadows | |
2876 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sleeping in same bed |
For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP |
2978 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Smelled like trees | |
3746 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sole owner and proprietor | |
2592 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Solitary | |
2030 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Solitude | |
2607 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sound of a gunshot | |
3418 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Stillness | |
1933 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sun / Sunlight | |
3539 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Thinking of home | |
1948 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Threshold | |
1259 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Tomorrow and tomorrow |