Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography Dots
Description
This is for the occasions when Faulkner uses a series of dots as a feature of his prose - i.e. ". . ." or ". . . . . ." We can't call these dots ellipses, because they do not represent anything being left out of the text. The most disconcerting use of this technique is in "Miss Zilphia Gant." SR
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Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Recurring Tropes›Illusion
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Perceptual›Watching
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Perceptual›Spying
Themes and Motifs: Naming›False name
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Stock trading | Economic›Trading | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Terror | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Violence›Child abuse
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Psychological›Paranoia
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Fear | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Strip searching | Verbal›Family history
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Learning about | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Past›Parental
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Emotional›Attraction | Interaction, Private›Domineering
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Place›Lonelier parts of town
Cultural Issues: Economy›Buying a house
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Physical›Dancing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Entertainment›Recital | Gender›Dirty girl | Gender›Female stereotype | Gender›Separate spaces
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Baldness | Naming›Nickname | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Piano | Texts›Love letter
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Parents-children | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Booth, William | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Uniform | Gender›Dirty girl | Gender›Double standard | Religion›Damnation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Master-servant | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Growth | Health and Illness›Indian medicine
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Emotional›Hero worship | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Year›July
Actions: Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Race›Division
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Quietness | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Reading aloud | Verbal›Swearing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Convalescence
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Smoking | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Flirting | Verbal›Reading aloud
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Bodily›Trembling | Emotional›Terror | Mental›Nightmare | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Swearing | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Age›Baby | Violence›Killing animal
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Mental›Incomprehension
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Legal›Divorce | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Nickname | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Cultural Issues: Gender›New Woman | Global›Travel | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Sexuality›Sexual passion
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Inscrutable
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Sexual
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Time of Year›December
Actions: Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ancestral
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Atmospheric›Oppressive | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper | Nationality›English / British | War›Death | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Themes and Motifs: Character›Fool|Foolishness
Cultural Issues: Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Violent›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Gender›Separate spaces | Race›Segregation
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial society | Death›Epitaph | Supernatural›Ghost | Texts›Epitaph
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Playing music
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Actions: Domestic›Making a bed | Domestic›Setting the table | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Character›Assertive | Character›Tenderness | Objects›Milk | Time›Continuity
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Movement›Truck | Verbal›Exaggeration | Violent›Killing in war | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Relationships: Institutional›Military | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Economic›Buying timber | Legal›Standing guard | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Driving | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Crime›Grave robbing | Crime›Interruption
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m.
Actions: Emotional›Regret | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Race›Racial spheres | Slavery›Metaphorical | War›World War I
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Emotional›Dread | Emotional›Repentance | Legal›Pardon | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Command
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Mental›Changing one's mind | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Communication›Telephone | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Double standard
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Texts›Telegram
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Divorce | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Jewelry Charm | Texts›Newspapers
Relationships: Familial›Providing for
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Paris | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Private›Courting
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Legal›Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer | Moral›Secret | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Verbal›Revealing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Christian | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Public›Filling Station
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Hungering | Economic›Buying | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Threat
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Sexual | Domestic Space›Stairway | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Bodily›Asthma | Bodily›Drinking | Interaction, Private›Courting | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Obesity
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting | Mental›Fantasizing
Cultural Issues: Education›College life
Themes and Motifs: Texts›School book
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Restraining
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Moonshine
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Gender›Chivalry
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Stepparent-child
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Movement›Train | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Searching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Movement›Train | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Verbal›Denial | Verbal›Disagreeing
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place | Place›City | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Aesthetics: Diction›Misogynistic wording | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Auditory›Insect sounds | Domestic Space›Yard | Place›Gate
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Two o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Spying | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Noon
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Wanting a drink
Environment: Place›Speakeasy | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Entertainment›Dancing | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Impotence
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Art›Jazz music
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Perceptual›Professional surveillance | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Gossip | Violent›Beating | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Work›Driving | Work›Postal worker | Work›To pay for education | Work›Waiter
Cultural Issues: Education›Law school | Health and Illness›Physical deformity
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Law›Trial | Politics›Political ambition
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Health and Illness›Insomnia
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Numbness | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Food›Candy | Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do | Home›Home as prison | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Books | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Texts›Magazine
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution | Sexuality›Sexual passion
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Nightgown | Clothes›Raincoat | Gender›Chivalry | Sexuality›Desire | Violence›Sexual
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Alimentary | Bodily›Drinking | Domestic›Cooking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Insulting
Aesthetics: Language›Baby talk | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Death›Wake | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Irony | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Legal›Bailing out | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Daring | Violent›Fighting | Work›Losing job | Work›Quitting job
Cultural Issues: Law›Frontier justice
Themes and Motifs: Body›Physical disability | Body›Prosthetic | Body›Stomach/belly
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Migration | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | History›Awareness of / Being in history | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Typography/Orthography›Dots