Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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2609 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Touch | |
1950 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Triumph | |
779 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Trying to say | |
1024 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Twilight | |
873 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Upward mobility | |
4210 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Vanishing | |
3417 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Vitality | |
4910 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Year the stars fell |
Added to refer to Faulkner's reference in at least two texts to 1833, "the year the stars fell" (in Appendix and in Go Down, Moses). Seems to refer to an actual historical event of a massive meteor shower that year which many interpreted as an omen, possibly even of end of times. Here is one article referencing the event: https://www.ancestry.com/contextux/historicalinsights/night-stars-fell-m.... JBP |
4830 | Cultural Issues | Region | Hapless Yankees | |
1219 | Cultural Issues | Region | Hospitality | |
948 | Cultural Issues | Region | Lost Cause | |
5182 | Cultural Issues | Region | New England | |
1582 | Cultural Issues | Region | North | |
1652 | Cultural Issues | Region | Reconstruction | |
2712 | Cultural Issues | Region | Rural South | |
1155 | Cultural Issues | Region | The South |
When a narrator or character explicitly foregrounds the region as distinctive, problematic, or otherwise noteworthy. JW |
1574 | Cultural Issues | Region | The West | |
2347 | Cultural Issues | Religion | African American |
Religion with regard to either African-Americans or the African-American community. The particular example here is of Lucius Priest in the The Reivers who imagines a "Negro" sermonizing about a moral decision. R 61.8. JB |
1479 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Amulet | |
4857 | Cultural Issues | Religion | And class | |
3876 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Apotheosis | |
4556 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Atheism | |
5383 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Baptism | |
1641 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Baptist | |
1471 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Bible | |
4458 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Blessing | |
4454 | Cultural Issues | Religion | camp meeting | |
2808 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Catholicism | |
2137 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Challenge |
When characters actively set themselves at odds with a religious deity or institution, such as when Jewel in AILD gripes, "if there is a God what the hell is He for." EP |
2775 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Chistian Scientist | |
4515 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Christianity | |
3298 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Church service | |
4596 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Communion | |
4463 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Consolation | |
3328 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Damnation | |
3009 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Deist | |
3109 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Divine judgment | |
1642 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Episcopal | |
5153 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Fanaticism | |
5103 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Folk superstition | |
4820 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Forgiveness | |
4453 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Free Will | |
3612 | Cultural Issues | Religion | God | |
3614 | Cultural Issues | Religion | God with human characteristics |
For when God is described as human-like -- added for when Quentin said God is "not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too." JBP |
961 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Godhead | |
4456 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Heresy | |
3715 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Hinduism | |
4684 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Hymns | |
1929 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Institutional | |
2807 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Islam | |
4554 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Judaism | |
4753 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Lay preacher | |
5476 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Martyrdom | |
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 |
2106 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Methodism | |
1971 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Piety | |
5452 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Pre-Christian | |
3137 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Preacher / Minister | |
4555 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Presbyterian | |
4771 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Providence | |
5003 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Race | |
5322 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Rebirth |
Rebirth as either a goal or a result of Christianity. In this particular case, Uncle Willy's church wants him to be reborn in "Uncle Willy". (232 |
5560 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Redemption | |
3102 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Relationship with God | |
3273 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Religious art or iconography | |
3074 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Religious faith | |
3331 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Resurrection | |
4858 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Revelation | |
4254 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Rituals and rites | |
1935 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sabbath | |
3613 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sacrilege | |
5561 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Salvation | |
5358 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sect | |
4517 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sermon | |
1780 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sin | |
2456 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Social welfare as substitute | |
5288 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sunday school | |
1592 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Totem | |
4655 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Uncharitable | |
4354 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Voodoo | |
2209 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Birthday | |
4805 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Cemetery decorations | |
3529 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Christmas gift game | |
3542 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Christmas holiday traditions | |
4737 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Civic | |
2751 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Commemoration | |
5092 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Drinking | |
2395 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Dueling | |
4468 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Easter | |
1632 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Funeral | |
2199 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Funeral arrangements | |
3702 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Holiday | |
5447 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Holiday dinner | |
758 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Hunting | |
1628 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Initiation | |
3716 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Sati or suttee | |
4406 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Visit | |
5620 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Wedding | |
545 | Relationships | Romantic | Courtship | |
908 | Relationships | Romantic | Death |