Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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4814 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Segregation of space | |
284 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Self-emancipation |
For textual moments in which an enslaved person or group acts upon the desire to be free, as when Loosh or unnamed groups of slaves take advantage of the proximity of the Union Army to leave the Sartoris, Sutpen and other plantations where they were enslaved. Most examples of self-emancipation occur during the Civil War, but it also applies the way Thucydus earns the money to buy himself from the McCaslins. SR |
271 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Sex | |
306 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Slave trading | |
289 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Slaves vs masters | |
297 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Slaves vs poor whites | |
275 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Social value | |
327 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Southern curse | |
290 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Traditions |
For instances of the patterns that became a recurring aspect of the social interactions between slaves and masters, as in the description of the young slaves approaching Sutpen's big house on Christmas morning in expectation of a gift. SR |
325 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Transhistorical | |
277 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Violence | |
296 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | White anxiety |
For moments in the text which describe anxiety felt by white characters about the presence or possible actions of slaves, as when Loosh's sudden appearance and behavior make Bayard uncomfortable. SR |
597 | Relationships | Social | Adversarial | |
1140 | Relationships | Social | Assailant-victim | |
3895 | Relationships | Social | Club | |
759 | Relationships | Social | Conflict | |
4865 | Relationships | Social | Coworker | |
3304 | Relationships | Social | Crowds | |
1831 | Relationships | Social | Fame | |
3764 | Relationships | Social | Fellow alumni of a college or university | |
4961 | Relationships | Social | Gang | |
3302 | Relationships | Social | Homoerotic | |
1418 | Relationships | Social | Homosocial | |
547 | Relationships | Social | Homosocial rivalry | |
1420 | Relationships | Social | Isolation |
This term describes moments when a character is isolated or ostracized from the wider social community. BR |
1263 | Relationships | Social | Mentorship | |
752 | Relationships | Social | Neighbor | |
828 | Relationships | Social | Paternalism | |
664 | Relationships | Social | Snobbery | |
4969 | Relationships | Social | Social organizations | |
1520 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Audience response | |
3062 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Collaborative | |
571 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Communal mythology | |
5226 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Deadpan | |
4918 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Explaining | |
5613 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Gestures | |
4919 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Hunting | |
1671 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Old days | |
1806 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Reminiscence | |
4127 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Retelling | |
5232 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Risque | |
1131 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Story-telling passim | |
5348 | Aesthetics | Style | Address to reader | |
1451 | Aesthetics | Style | Bricolage | |
966 | Aesthetics | Style | Character portrait | |
1959 | Aesthetics | Style | Cubism | |
3036 | Aesthetics | Style | Index | |
3510 | Aesthetics | Style | List | |
1888 | Aesthetics | Style | Long sentence | |
3037 | Aesthetics | Style | Long sentence passim | |
641 | Aesthetics | Style | Neologism | |
3538 | Aesthetics | Style | Numerous adjectives | |
2507 | Aesthetics | Style | Present tense | |
1267 | Aesthetics | Style | Unfinished sentence | |
2700 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Eternity | |
3246 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Folk customs | |
3133 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Folklore | |
1883 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Ghost | |
2612 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Haunted house | |
2608 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Haunting | |
1003 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Insight | |
2382 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Phantom | |
1947 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Place | |
2613 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Sickness | |
2877 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Signs / Omen | |
2369 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Soul / Spirit | |
2385 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Spell | |
3134 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Superstitions | |
2373 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Telepathy | |
5498 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Vision | |
2928 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Archetype |
I did not see archetype anywhere else in the keyword list, so I added it here under symbolism - for when a text refers to something clearly archetypal, like the tree in S&F. -JBP |
1560 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Blood | |
4887 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Cage | |
2506 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Christian | |
4152 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Cleansing power of water | |
1715 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Created by characters | |
4054 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Fire | |
1315 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Freudian | |
1893 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Hamsa | |
4821 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Impermanence | |
4904 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Rebirth | |
3106 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Reflection |
Created for when a text makes explicit reference to mirrored reflection that has potential symbolic importance - created to capture Benjy's repeated references to a mirror in the library (of fire, of Caddy) that in the present day is gone (leaving only a door-like discoloration on the wall where it once had been). -JBP |
5623 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Roman | |
3758 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Sexual symbol | |
1323 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Shadows | |
4882 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Shared humanity | |
2981 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Theatrical | |
5625 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Time | |
5499 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Appliance | |
5542 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Atomic bomb | |
4026 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Automobile | |
5553 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Cadillac | |
2301 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Car | |
4465 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Car tire | |
5545 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Construction equipment | |
5235 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Cotton gin | |
2528 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Electricity | |
1450 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Elevator | |
1663 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Invention | |
5576 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Jaguar |