Aesthetics: Interpretation

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"A Name for the City", 201 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Swamp
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Ambiguity
"A Name for the City", 201 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Ambiguity
"A Name for the City", 206 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Deception
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Explanatory passage
"Ad Astra", 414 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Ambiguity
"By the People", 89 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›And racism | Race›Economic basis of racism | Race›Subverting a stereotype | Race›White fear | Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Explanatory passage
"Fool About a Horse", 118 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Character›Pride
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Interpretation | Narrative›First-person vernacular passim | Tone›Humorous
"Fool About a Horse", 119 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Explanatory passage
"Fool About a Horse", 120 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Economic›Horse trading | Moral›Deception | Physical›Sitting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Snake | Character›Pride
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Conflict
Aesthetics: Interpretation
"Fool About a Horse", 122 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Badgering
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Determinism›Fated | Money›As motive
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Disruption
"Fool About a Horse", 123 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Embarrassment | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Determinism›Fated
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Interpretation
"Uncle Willy", 238 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Selling a house or place | Physical›Confining | Physical›Escape from confinement
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Insanity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Death›Anticipation of death
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Interpretation›Debunking story | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Absalom, Absalom!, 13 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Rhetorical question
Cultural Issues: Religion›Providence | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated | Meaning | Story-telling›Audience response
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Interpretation›Theodicy
Absalom, Absalom!, 13 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Place›Church | Public›Street
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Moral›Judgmental | Play›Card playing | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Respectability | Crime›Gambling | Law›Wedding license | Region›The South | Religion›Institutional | Religion›Methodism | Slavery›Manumission | Slavery›Southern curse | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Character›Teetotaler | Determinism›Fated | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Meaning | Past›Historical wrong | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Sister-sister | Friendship | Marital›Arrangements | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical›Heaven | Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery | Interpretation›Theodicy | Language›Anaphora
Absalom, Absalom!, 134 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Audience response
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 135 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Memory | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Supernatural›Phantom | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Love
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Pilgrim | Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 136 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Requesting | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Death | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Orphan | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 138 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Forgiveness
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Interpretation | Metafictional›Picture/image | Metafictional›Projection | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 15 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Stillness | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Domestic Space | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Observing | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Meaning›Aesthetic experience | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Story-telling›Explaining | Texts | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Ambiguity | Description›Color yellow | Interpretation›Explanatory passage | Metafictional | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-Reflective | Symbolism›Time
Absalom, Absalom!, 177 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Interpretation
Absalom, Absalom!, 215 (Event)
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Absalom, Absalom!, 25 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Paying | Mental›Learning | Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lacking | Money›Need for | Naming›Change over time | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Explanatory passage | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Absalom, Absalom!, 26 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jefferson
Actions: Movement›Return | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Nationality›Foreigners
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Absence/Loss›Separation | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Ambiguity | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Withholding
Absalom, Absalom!, 268 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 286 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 47 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed | Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Vengeful | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Determinism›Fated | Values›Justice
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Narrative›Anticipation | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 48 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Naming self
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Dragon's teeth | Interpretation›Ambiguity | Narrative›Anticipation
Absalom, Absalom!, 5 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Insight | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Responding
Cultural Issues: History
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Memory | Psychological›Motivation | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 79 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Relationships: Familial | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Figures of Speech›Scientific | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Interpretation | Metafictional›Signs | Narrative›Indeterminacy
Absalom, Absalom!, 95 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Absalom, Absalom!, 96 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Meaning | Values
Aesthetics: Interpretation
As I Lay Dying, 22 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Religion›Piety
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral
Relationships: Familial›Kinship | Marital›Husband-wife | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Ambiguity
Go Down, Moses, 243 (Event)
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Interpretation
Go Down, Moses, 246 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Biblical curse
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Ham | Interpretation›Ambiguity | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
Go Down, Moses, 247 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Interpretation
Go Down, Moses, 253 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Domestic›Housekeeping | Violent›Suicide
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Requiem for a Nun, 163 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Relationships: Familial›Cohesion | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Theodicy
Requiem for a Nun, 5 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Communal story
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Harpe | Interpretation›Debunking story | Narrative›Parentheses
The Mansion, 222 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Car | Verbal›Instructing
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Art›Sculpture | Meaning›Aesthetic experience | Objects›Clock | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Ambiguity | Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Typography/Orthography›Italics