Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |