Keywords
Term ID |
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Parent | Term | Description |
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1812 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Living in the present |
Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past. |
3382 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Local legends |
I created this term in response to the local legend of Melisandre Backus Harriss that Chick inherits in "Knight's Gambit."--LW |
2455 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Locks | |
3621 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Long name | |
2158 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Long passage of time |
Perhaps self-evident, but for when a text makes a huge jump in time very quickly -- Zilphia Gant sitting beside the window "for twelve years," for instance. JBP |
3270 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Longing for death | |
1999 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Loot | |
3826 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Losing vs never having |
Added for when Quentin makes the observation, about a man who castrated himself, "It's not not having them. It's never to have had them." I believe similar ideas crop up elsewhere in Faulkner - distinguishing between having and losing, or never having in the first place. JBP |
2089 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of animal companion | |
3132 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of innocence | |
2450 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of object | |
2216 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Lost | |
4368 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Lost time | |
1583 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Love | |
2721 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Love letter | |
510 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Loyalty | |
4660 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Loyalty | |
2272 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Luck | |
3700 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Luggage | |
1454 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Luxury | |
2717 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Machine gun | |
1310 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Madness | |
4703 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Magazine | |
5139 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Magazine | |
2249 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Magnet | |
3589 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Male body | |
1807 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Manipulation | |
4044 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Map | |
4767 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Map | |
2518 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Marble columns | |
4278 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Matchstick | |
871 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Material | |
4457 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Maternity | |
1107 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Maturity | |
2659 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Mausoleum | |
4289 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Maybe as concept | |
381 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Meaning | |
5407 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Meaning of | |
2378 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Meaninglessness | |
3515 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Measuring time | |
2718 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Medal | |
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 |
460 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Memory | |
805 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Men | |
4339 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Mental disability | |
4118 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Metal detector | |
1324 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Metaphorical elephant | |
3509 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Metaphysics | |
4666 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Mice | |
3023 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Military communications | |
3188 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Military defeat | |
4626 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Military equipment | |
2497 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Milk | |
2629 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Mirror | |
3160 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Misinterpretation | |
5154 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Misogyny | |
4148 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Missing | |
3245 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Mockingbird | |
2790 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Moment of | |
382 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Money | |
4477 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Money order | |
1282 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Money|Wealth | |
1803 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Monument | |
1630 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Moral authority | |
3722 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Morality | |
1092 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Morals | |
1820 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Mosquitoes | |
1774 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Motivation | |
5393 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Mottoes | |
2491 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Moustache | |
2995 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Mouth | |
2271 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Movement | |
4790 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Moving a dead body | |
661 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Mules | |
2229 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Murder | |
1934 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Music | |
4317 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Musical instrument | |
852 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Mysterious | |
877 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Mystery | |
2220 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Nail | |
2389 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Naivety | |
5137 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Naked | |
2019 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Nakedness | |
1830 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Named bear Ben | |
860 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Named dog Lion | |
1166 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Named for historical figure | |
463 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Naming | |
3141 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Napkin | |
5496 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Need for | |
4261 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Neglect | |
3385 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | New car | |
5524 | Themes and Motifs | Home | New home | |
1709 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Newspapers | |
3503 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Nickel coin | |
580 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Nickname | |
3197 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Nicknames | |
2969 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Nihilism | |
2856 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Noisiness | |
4197 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Nondescript | |
2100 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Nose |