Themes and Motifs: Memory Sensory memory

Description

When the physical sensation of a particular past event is remembered by a character. BR

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Absalom, Absalom!, 18 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Quietness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Buggy | Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Health and Illness›Fever | Modernity›Changing customs | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Sensory memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Past vs present | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Separated
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 23 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Auditory›Quietness | Domestic Space›Sitting room | Olfactory›Evoking memory | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Snow
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Communication›Letter | Communication›Receiving mail | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Education›College | Education›Harvard | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Region›New England
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Sensory memory | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Texts›Letters | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi | Allusion, Geographical›New England | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Flash forward | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Flags in the Dust, 334 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Death›Car accident | Death›Corpse | Memory›Sensory memory | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Light in August, 230 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Hungering | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Thinking
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Sensory memory
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Hamlet, 175 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Tragic / tragedy | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Class›Social decline
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Memory›Sensory memory
Aesthetics: Tone›Elegiac
The Hamlet, 229 (Event)
Environment: Public›School
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Sensory memory
Relationships: Romantic›Love at first sight