Cultural Issues: Land-Use
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Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Place›Indian mound
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Aboriginal
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Explaining
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Legal›Record keeping
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Objects›Iron box | Texts›Civic records
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money | Land-Use›Ownership | Law›Legal ownership | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession
Environment: Atmospheric›Meteor shower | Natural›Woods | Place›Jefferson
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Birthright | Class›French nobility | Cultural Identity›American | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | War›Refugee
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Inheritance›Property | Naming›Indian name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Foster family | Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | History›Indian Removal | Land-Use›Collective exploitation | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Oklahoma | Language›Fragments | Recurring Episodes›Indian removal
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Natural›Woods | Place›Lawns | Place›Plantation | Place›Quarters | Place›Stable
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Quarters
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wildlife
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Natural›Delta | Natural›Delta rivers
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›As loss
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Time›Travel back in time
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Aboriginal
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices
Environment: Natural›River | Natural›Wilderness
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Time›Travel back in time
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Heart of Darkness
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Nationality›Old vs New World | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Time›Transcended | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-nature
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Objects›European in U.S. | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Relationships: Hierarchical›Foreman-worker | Social›Coworker
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Entropy
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Food›Peas | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Bear | Animals›Cows | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Futility›Inability | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Ax | Objects›Saw | Recurring Tropes›Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Story-telling›Hunting
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Place›Field
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Agricultural | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Hunting›Breaking camp | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Time›Transcended
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house | Domestic Space›Porch | Natural›Hills | Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Gender›Masculinity | Land-Use›Corn farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Intertextuality›Embedded text, lettering
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Plantation
Actions: Hunting›Slave hunting | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Moral›Deception | Movement›Riding | Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Respectability | History›Dispossessing Indians | Land-Use›Ownership | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Native American | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Community›Stranger | Exile›Driven away | Naming›Place name | Objects›Pistol | Past›Personal past | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave | Marital›Social respectability | Social›Isolation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Wealth | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Mud | Natural›Swamp | Place›Plantation | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Language barriers | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Social›Male gathering | Interaction, Social›Withdrawal from public | Movement›Riding | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Building structure | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Group Mentality›Community collective | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Land-Use›Ownership | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Alligators | Animals›Dogs | Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Community›Local legends | Objects›Bricks | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Values›Determination
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Identity, Cultural›Rural | Labor | Land-Use›Agricultural | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Memory›Collective memory | Morals›Hypocrisy | Philosophical›Salvation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Callousness | Play›Card playing | Verbal›Chatter | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Apron | Clothes›Uniform | Food›Ice-cream | Labor›Domestic | Land-Use›Loss of flora | Land-Use›Loss of wildlife | Mass Media›Magazines | Sexuality›Harassment | War›Death | War›Women
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Natural›Moon | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Agricultural›Ginning cotton | Bodily›Singing | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Movement›Car | Work›Milling
Cultural Issues: History›Reconstruction | Labor›Farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Race›Stereotype mule
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Art›African American music
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-mule
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Homer | Diction›Racist term | Tone›Overwrought
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Named bear Ben
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Priam
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Land-Use›Agricultural | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property
Actions: Moral›Renounce | Verbal›Renunciation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Land-Use›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Texts›Deed
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Descendants
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Transhistorical
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Abraham | Allusion, Biblical›Genesis
Actions: Verbal›Renunciation
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Ownership | Religion›Providence
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical
Cultural Issues: History›Indian Removal | Land-Use›Ownership | Religion›Providence | Slavery›Southern curse
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glasses | Economy›Poverty | Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Southern curse
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Canaan | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Economy›Wealth | Land-Use›Ownership | Land-Use›Prehuman landscape | Religion›Divine judgment | Slavery›Southern curse
Environment: Time of Year›Fall
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Labor›Farming | Land-Use›Collective exploitation | Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Land-Use›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Logging | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary | Time of Year›Hunting season
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Class›Caste system | Clothes›Hunting clothes | Land-Use›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Time›Past
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Logging | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Logging | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Trophy | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wildlife
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Story-telling›Hunting
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Natural›Wilderness | Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Being outside of time
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wildlife
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Natural›Delta | Natural›Delta rivers
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Aboriginal
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices
Environment: Natural›Delta rivers
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references
Themes and Motifs: Time›Travel back in time
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›As loss
Themes and Motifs: Time›Travel back in time
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal laws and regulations | Hunting and Fishing›Rules | Land-Use›Loss of wildlife | Sexuality›Sexual passion
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency | Morals›Morality | Values›Love
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Emotional›Detachment
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Land-Use›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Marital›Death of spouse
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Land-Use›Ownership | Nationality›Old vs New World | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Transcended | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-nature
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Segregation | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Technological
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Hare | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: History›King Cotton | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›July Fourth | Time of Year›Juneteenth | Time of Year›New Year | Time of Year›Thanksgiving
Actions: Agricultural›Milking a cow | Legal›Bailing out | Work›Yard work
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Hangover | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›As loss | Progress›Electrification | Progress›Neon lights | Progress›New replacing old
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Building structure | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Cultural Issues: Economy›Cotton planting | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Slavery›Local origins
Environment: Natural›Prehistoric forces
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Prehuman landscape | Religion›Deist
Themes and Motifs: Past›Prehistory
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Interaction, Social›Frontier life
Cultural Issues: History›Colonization | History›Frontier outlawry | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Interracial›White-black | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Extramarital
Actions: Agricultural›Planting
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Law›Frontier justice | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Hare | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated | Psychological›Obsession
Cultural Issues: History›Indian Removal | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Collective exploitation | War›Civil War consequences
Environment: Atmospheric›Fire | Atmospheric›Smoke
Actions: Bodily›Defecation | Emotional›Love | Movement›Running away
Aesthetics: Tone›Mock-heroic
Environment: Place›Penitentiary | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July
Cultural Issues: Gender›Inversion | History›Convict labor | Land-Use›Logging | Politics›Corruption | Sexuality›Interracial | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Body›Teeth | Memory›Haunted by past
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Logging | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Environment: Time of Day›Evening | Time of Year›August
Actions: Economic›Buying a house
Environment: Place›Decayed house
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Land-Use›Agricultural | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Compson land acquired
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Erosion | Technology›Construction equipment
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Grand Canyon
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Economic›Lending Money
Actions: Physical›Searching | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Home›Destroyed | Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›River-bottom | Time of Year›Hunting season
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Law›Property
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›De Spain creates camp
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›Railroad log line | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Hunting season
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Logging | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Modernity›Changing customs
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Logging | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Infrastructure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Hunting›Setting up camp | Movement›Truck
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›Roads
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Cars | Progress›Roads
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Place›Motordrome
Cultural Issues: Education›Informal | Land-Use›Recreation | Law›Motor vehicle
Relationships: Social›Mentorship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Fishing camp
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn | Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Bootlegging | Hunting and Fishing›Annual | Land-Use›Agricultural | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›New replacing old | Progress›Renaming
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›Renaming
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›May
Cultural Issues: Food | Land-Use›Corn farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Loft | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Laughing | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Renaming
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Friendship›Racial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life | Agriculture›Soil quality | Economy›Property | Land-Use›Collective exploitation | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Themes and Motifs: Community