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"A Courtship", 362 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Steamboat
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
"A Courtship", 362 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Poisoning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Crime›Murder | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Suspicious | Naming›Renaming
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
"A Courtship", 365 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Movement›Steamboat
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Objects›Fiddle
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"A Courtship", 367 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Work›Dismissing from work
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Fiddle
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white | Romantic›Courtship
"A Courtship", 378 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Domestic›Food preparation | Movement›Steamboat
Cultural Issues: Gender›Marriage | Slavery›Labor
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy | Social›Homosocial rivalry
"A Courtship", 379 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Poisoning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Naming›Renaming
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
"A Justice", 343 (Event)
Environment: Place›Farm
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Racial identity | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering passim | Naming›Change over time | Naming›Indian name
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Racist term
"A Justice", 345 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Steamboat | Play›Gambling | Violent›Poisoning
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Character›Ruthless | Naming›Indian name
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Narrative›Reported narration | Narrative›Reported narration passim in section | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
"A Justice", 347 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Violent›Poisoning | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Sexuality›Desire | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Renaming
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Native American | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
"A Justice", 347 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Play›Gambling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi River
"A Justice", 351 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Trading | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Slavery›Purchase
"A Name for the City", 200 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Legal›Record keeping
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Objects›Iron box | Texts›Civic records
"A Name for the City", 201 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jail
Actions: Interaction, Social›Making progress
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Padlock
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Dillinger, John | Allusion, Historical›James, Jesse | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
"A Name for the City", 202 (Event)
Environment: Place›Frontier
Actions: Movement›Horse
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
"A Name for the City", 206 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Story-telling›Communal mythology
"A Name for the City", 210 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money | Land-Use›Ownership | Law›Legal ownership | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Ledger
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession
"Ambuscade", 3 (Event)
Environment: Place›Smokehouse | Place›Well|Wellhouse | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Physical›Ambush | Play›Historical recreation | Work›Getting water
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Friendship›Childhood friends | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Companions
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›First-person passim
"Ambuscade", 5 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Mules
"Ambuscade", 7 (Event)
Environment: Place›Smokehouse | Time of Day›Afternoon | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›White anxiety
"Ambuscade", 8 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Livestock pen
Actions: Movement›Mule | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Slavery›Emancipation | War›Union Army
"Ambuscade", 8 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Resistance | War›Defeat
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
"Ambuscade", 8 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Discipline
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregated space | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Texts›Bible
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"Ambuscade", 9 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated | Natural›Cedar trees
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
"Appendix: Compson", 328 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Natural›Woods | Place›Lawns | Place›Plantation | Place›Quarters | Place›Stable
Actions: Movement›Steamboat
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Quarters
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Furniture
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›France | Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana
"Appendix: Compson", 328 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation | Place›Sawmill
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Savagism | History›Indian Removal | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Native American stereotype | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Persistence | Exile›Indian Removal | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
"Appendix: Compson", 339 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies | Slavery›Emancipation | Slavery›Metaphorical
Themes and Motifs: Home›New home
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Benjy committed
"Delta Autumn", 270 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Delta | Natural›Delta rivers
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
"Go Down, Moses", 257 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg | Labor›Translation | Law›Missing person | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Texts›Bible | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Sibling | Interracial›Networks
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Pharaoh | Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals
"Go Down, Moses", 259 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Sun
Actions: Domestic›Teaching
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Agriculture›Market gardening | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Shabby | Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Law›Execution | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Art›Painting | Objects›Umbrella
Relationships: Interracial›Companions
"Go Down, Moses", 263 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation | Slavery›Music
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Eyes | Objects›Pipe | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Pharaoh | Allusion, Historical›Roman senator | Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals | Language›Call and response | Narrative›Quotation as thought | Symbolism›Shared humanity | Typography/Orthography›Square brackets
"Go Down, Moses", 264 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Panic | Movement›Flight | Verbal›Apology
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation | Slavery›Music
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Interracial›Pseudo-family
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Pharaoh | Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals | Language›Call and response
"Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard", 136 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Physical›Building
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
"Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard", 136 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Community›Local legends | Money›Treasure
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Vicksburg | Allusion, Historical›Grant, Ulysses S.
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 667 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Moral›Deception
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Slaves vs masters | War›Homefront
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 669 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Self-emancipation | Slavery›Slaves vs masters | War›Union Army
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 669 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Actions: Moral›Deception | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Silver
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 669 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Uniform | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Self-emancipation
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 670 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Moral›Deception
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 677 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Relationships: Familial›Cousin
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 680 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Etiquette | War›Deprivation
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 686 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Upstairs | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 688 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom | War›Confederate Army | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 688 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Overhearing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor | War›Confederate Army | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"Raid", 38 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Hat | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Loyalty | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Home›Destroyed | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"Raid", 40 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation
"Raid", 41 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Religion›African American | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Relationships: Familial›Mother-infant
"Raid", 41 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Re-enslavement
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Reunion
"Raid", 45 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Actions: Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Race›Solidarity | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Intertextuality›Faulkner text
"Raid", 45 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Migration
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype Superstitious | Region›Hapless Yankees | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Relationships: Social›Paternalism
"Raid", 46 (Event)
Environment: 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
"Raid", 48 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Actions: Movement›Horse | Movement›Migration | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Race›Stereotype eyes | Race›Stereotype: smell | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
"Raid", 49 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River | Time of Day›Sunset
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
"Raid", 51 (Event)
Environment: Place›Military camp
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Traumatized | Slavery›Self-emancipation
"Raid", 52 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Miscommunication | Moral›Fraud
Cultural Issues: Region›Hapless Yankees | Slavery›Re-enslavement | War›Profiting from war
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation
"Raid", 53 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation | Texts›Military communications
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"Raid", 55 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Re-enslavement
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
"Red Leaves", 313 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Global›Exoticism | Labor›Menial | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Quarters | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Death | Objects›Tobacco
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Exoticism | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
"Red Leaves", 314 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Silence | Natural›Moon
Actions: Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Ritual | Slavery›African origins | Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›Quarters | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hearth | Objects›Toys
"Red Leaves", 318 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Idleness | Hunting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›African origins | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
"Red Leaves", 319 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Government›Inherited position | Labor›Menial | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Race›Stereotype sweat | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Hierarchical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
"Red Leaves", 320 (Event)
Actions: Movement
Cultural Issues: Global›Travel | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
"Red Leaves", 320 (Event)
Actions: Agricultural
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Quarters
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
"Red Leaves", 322 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Running | Hunting›Slave hunting
Cultural Issues: Government›Inherited position | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices | Inheritance | Objects›Slipper
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
"Red Leaves", 323 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Aesthetics: Tone›Nostalgic
"Red Leaves", 325 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Shoes | Global›Exoticism | Slavery›Field slaves vs house slaves | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Body›Stomach/belly | Death
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Red Leaves", 327 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Hunting›Slave hunting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Slavery›Fugitive
"Red Leaves", 327 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Hiding | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Slavery›African origins
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
"Red Leaves", 328 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Food | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Fear
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Quarters
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
"Red Leaves", 330 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating
Cultural Issues: Clothes | Religion | Slavery›Religion | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Arrivals/Departures
"Red Leaves", 330 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Boat
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Religion›Bible | Slavery›Middle passage
"Red Leaves", 331 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Running | Hunting›Fox hunting | Hunting›Slave hunting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Run away
"Red Leaves", 337 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Swamp
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bugs
"Red Leaves", 340 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Noon
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Peace
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
"Retreat", 17 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Natural›Orchard | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Mental›Dreaming
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
"Retreat", 18 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Objects›Silver
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
"Retreat", 19 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Locking a door
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Labor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"Retreat", 28 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Minstrelsy | War›Plunder
"Retreat", 28 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Minstrelsy | War›Union Army
"Retreat", 29 (Event)
Actions: Military›Capturing prisoners | Movement›Racing
Cultural Issues: Region›Hapless Yankees | Slavery›Minstrelsy
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Sartoris captures Yankees | Tone›Humorous
"Retreat", 34 (Event)
Actions: Military›Escape | Verbal›Lying
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation | Slavery›Loyalty
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Language›Profanity
"Retreat", 34 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Violence against civilians
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"Skirmish at Sartoris", 59 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Flight
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Body | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Masculinity | Identity, Personal›Soldier | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Death | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Body›Hair | Objects›Silver
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Institutional›Military | Romantic›Fiance
"Skirmish at Sartoris", 60 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | Gender›War | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›War | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Mother-daughter | Romantic›Death | Romantic›Fiance
"Skirmish at Sartoris", 62 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental illness | Slavery›Violence
Relationships: Marital
"Skirmish at Sartoris", 66 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Politics›Voting | Race›Hierarchical | Region›Reconstruction | Slavery›Abolition | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures
"The Bear", 282 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jefferson | Time of Year›November
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Migration›Big Bottom | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Community›Tradition | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interracial›Indian-black | Interracial›Master-servant
"The Bear", 287 (Event)
Environment: Place›Stable | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And identity | Clothes›Hat, straw | Clothes›Overalls | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Philosophical›Freedom of choice | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
"The Old People", 201 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Running | Emotional›Anxiety | Hunting
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | Ritual›Initiation | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Story-telling
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood
"The Old People", 202 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive | Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Naming
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
"The Old People", 203 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Indian name
Relationships: Marital›Forced
"The Old People", 203 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Family | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Intergenerational | Marital
"The Old People", 203 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cabin | Place›Farm | Place›Jefferson
Actions: Work›Blacksmith | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Class›Blood | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Metaphorical | Slavery›Persistence over time | Slavery›Quarters
Relationships: Hierarchical | Interracial›Indian-white
"The Unvanquished", 74 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Labor | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
"The Unvanquished", 77 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Military›Reconnaissance
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Map | Texts›Cook book
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi
"The Unvanquished", 78 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scamming
Cultural Issues: Crime›Forgery | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Alias | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mottstown | Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi | Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"The Unvanquished", 83 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place
Actions: Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
"The Unvanquished", 83 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Noblesse oblige
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Rural | Religion›Episcopal | Religion›Methodism | Slavery›Freedom
Themes and Motifs: Community›Cooperation | Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
"The Unvanquished", 84 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering
Cultural Issues: Region›Rural South | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
"The Unvanquished", 84 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Interaction, Social›Church
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Demographics
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
"The Unvanquished", 85 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Praying
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom
"The Unvanquished", 86 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Expecting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Ledger
"The Unvanquished", 89 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Begging | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Labor | War›Retreat
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Military communications
"The Unvanquished", 92 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Verbal›Swearing
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Etiquette | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Values›Propriety
"The Unvanquished", 93 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Arson | Violent›Murder | Violent›Raiding
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Violence | War›Destruction | War›Pillage
"Vendee", 107 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Shots | Weather›Frost
Actions: Violent›Assault | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Snake | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ringo whips Ab
"Vendee", 110 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Texts›Note
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
"Vendee", 111 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Fighting | Violent›Shooting | Violent›Stabbing
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Yankee uniform | Slavery›Violence
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis | Allusion, Geographical›Texas | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
"Vendee", 116 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | War›Defeat | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
"Vendee", 97 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Vengeful | Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Freedom
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Eulogy | Objects›Umbrella
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
"Wash", 536 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Bad smell
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Objects›Scythe | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses
"Wash", 536 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Economy›Property | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Diction›Rural vernacular
Absalom, Absalom!, 10 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Absalom, Absalom!, 109 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway | Place›Plantation
Actions: Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal | Race›Division | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Supernatural›Haunting
Relationships: Familial | Interracial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 11 (Event)
Actions: Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Forced migration
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Absalom, Absalom!, 112 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Watching | Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 123 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Domestic›Sewing | Hunting | Physical›Waiting | Work›Chopping wood | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Civil War | War›Deprivation | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 13 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Crime›Gambling | Region›The South | Religion›Institutional | Slavery›Southern curse | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Character›Teetotaler | Meaning | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Friendship | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical›Heaven
Absalom, Absalom!, 14 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Crime›Penalty for | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence
Relationships: Familial
Absalom, Absalom!, 146 (Event)
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: History›Reconstruction | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Return from war
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Absalom, Absalom!, 149 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Absalom, Absalom!, 15 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado
Absalom, Absalom!, 159 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes | Slavery›Biblical curse
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Ham | Allusion, Biblical›Lilith
Absalom, Absalom!, 165 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Curse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Meaning›Limitations of words / language
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 167 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Persistence over time | Slavery›Quarters
Absalom, Absalom!, 169 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Quarters
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 170 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Nursing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Yellow fever | Slavery›Big house vs quarters
Absalom, Absalom!, 174 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Race | Slavery›Quarters
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion | Supernatural›Haunted house
Absalom, Absalom!, 177 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person | Story-telling›Story-telling passim
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!, 177 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Absalom, Absalom!, 178 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Movement›Horse | Movement›Walking | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Race | Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
Absalom, Absalom!, 18 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Fever | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Memory | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath
Absalom, Absalom!, 181 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Drinking | Physical›Travel
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial
Absalom, Absalom!, 183 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Class | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Absalom, Absalom!, 184 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Shoes | Economy›Wealth | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 185 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Clothes | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Constitutive moment | Recurring Tropes›Door
Absalom, Absalom!, 186 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Movement›Walking | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | Violence›Interracial | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Right-of-way
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 188 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Themes and Motifs: Character›Constitutive moment | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Charleston, South Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Richmond, Virginia | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 193 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person | Story-telling
Absalom, Absalom!, 196 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Smoking | Interaction, Social›Camaraderie
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Books
Absalom, Absalom!, 197 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Memory›Remembering | Story-telling
Absalom, Absalom!, 198 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Absalom, Absalom!, 199 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Absalom, Absalom!, 199 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Revolt
Absalom, Absalom!, 20 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Gender›Inversion | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Southern curse | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 20 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Wrestling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Interracial violence | Slavery›Miscegenation
Absalom, Absalom!, 200 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Olfactory›Fire | Place›Plantation
Actions: Physical›Burning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Absalom, Absalom!, 201 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Emotional›Fear
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling | Time›Being in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Gaps
Absalom, Absalom!, 201 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Cruelty | Emotional›Fear | Violent›Vengeance
Cultural Issues: Slavery | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Character›Greed | Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood
Absalom, Absalom!, 202 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Sound of drums | Otherworldly›Earth / the world
Cultural Issues: Slavery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Threads | Language›French
Absalom, Absalom!, 203 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Religion›Voodoo | Slavery›Revolt
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood
Absalom, Absalom!, 203 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity | Slavery›Revolt | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name
Absalom, Absalom!, 203 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Discovering
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Revolt
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse
Absalom, Absalom!, 204 (Event)
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Revolt | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse
Absalom, Absalom!, 204 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Sound of drums | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Chanting | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Odor
Absalom, Absalom!, 204 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt | Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Absalom, Absalom!, 204 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Absalom, Absalom!, 206 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Capture | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Health and Illness›Injury | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›Racialism
Absalom, Absalom!, 207 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Physical›Capture | Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›French | Recurring Episodes›Architect captured
Absalom, Absalom!, 208 (Event)
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
Absalom, Absalom!, 209 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Hate
Cultural Issues: Region›The South | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Absalom, Absalom!, 209 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Ascent
Cultural Issues: Economy›Wealth | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 211 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Divorce
Absalom, Absalom!, 211 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Logically reasoning | Moral›Rationalization
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Morals›Injustice | Recurring Tropes›Design | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Marital›Divorce
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate
Absalom, Absalom!, 225 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Emotional›Shame
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Race | Religion›Apotheosis | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 23 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Bells
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Naming›Importance of naming | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ancient Greek Chorus | Narrative›Revision
Absalom, Absalom!, 242 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Moral›Exploitation
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Coke upon Littleton | Allusion, Historical›Sabine people | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 246 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 25 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Slavery›Metaphorical
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Absalom, Absalom!, 26 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Waistcoat | Slavery›Forced migration
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Money›Gold | Money›Loot
Aesthetics: Narrative›Revision
Absalom, Absalom!, 26 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 267 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Interaction, Social›Celebration | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Big house vs quarters
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Home›Estranged | Story-telling›Collaborative
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 27 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Absalom, Absalom!, 271 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Convalescence | Slavery›Miscegenation | War›Civil War | War›Wound
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Familial›Interracial | Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Corinth, Mississippi | Allusion, Geographical›Mexico | Allusion, Geographical›Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical›Texas | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Revision
Absalom, Absalom!, 272 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Sex
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 28 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Labor | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mosquitoes | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 29 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Absalom, Absalom!, 33 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime | Government›Uncle Sam | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Godhead | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Oxen | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Chandlier | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Furniture
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Absalom, Absalom!, 36 (Event)
Environment: Public›Court
Actions: Legal›Arraign | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Law›Bail | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd
Absalom, Absalom!, 39 (Event)
Environment: Public›Church
Actions: Legal›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots
Absalom, Absalom!, 4 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Art›Painting
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Chains | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Metafictional›Painting | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Symbolism›Hamsa
Absalom, Absalom!, 4 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Symbolism›Hamsa | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 4 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Dialogue
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Region›The South | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 42 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Hysteria | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Shawl | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Absalom, Absalom!, 42 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Absalom, Absalom!, 43 (Event)
Environment: Public›Church
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Physical›Throwing | Violent
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Ritual | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Vanity | Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots | Values›Dignity
Relationships: Marital | Social›Conflict
Aesthetics: Diction | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 48 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Art›Music | Objects›Piano
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Greek tragedy | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Mask
Absalom, Absalom!, 48 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Interracial | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Naming›Importance of naming
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Clytemnestra | Allusion, Mythical›Dragon's teeth | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 56 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Sister-sister
Absalom, Absalom!, 66 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Manumission | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Absalom, Absalom!, 66 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Appearance›Cosmetics | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death›Deathbed | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people | Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Figures of Speech›Moth | Symbolism›Blood
Absalom, Absalom!, 75 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Romantic
Absalom, Absalom!, 77 (Event)
Actions: Hunting | Physical›Riding | Play›Gambling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Music | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male attraction | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
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!, 81 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Trousseau | Slavery
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Absalom, Absalom!, 84 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Moral›Renounce | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Group Mentality›Community collective | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Traditions
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Absalom, Absalom!, 86 (Event)
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Actions: Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Race›Miscegenation | Sexuality›Female | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Character›Provincialism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Angel | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Saint | Allusion, Mythical›Juno | Figures of Speech›Planting
Absalom, Absalom!, 87 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Moral›Corrupting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive | Cultural Identity›Puritan | Economy›Wealth | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Photography | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 88 (Event)
Environment: Place›Slave market
Actions: Mental›Learning
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Racialized | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Concubinage
Absalom, Absalom!, 90 (Event)
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Moral›Corrupting
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality›Prostitution | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Provincialism | Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Friendship | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Absalom, Absalom!, 91 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation | Moral›Corrupting | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Race›White race | Religion›Godhead | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality›Prostitution | Sexuality›Racialized | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Body›Hair | Character›Gambler | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Philosophical›Evolution | Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Friendship | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Seed
Absalom, Absalom!, 94 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Commodity | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fatality
Relationships: Friendship | Interracial›Marriage
Absalom, Absalom!, 95 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Violence
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Absalom, Absalom!, 99 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Civil War
Flags in the Dust, 110 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Car | Verbal›Singing | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Class›Declasse | Modernity›Speed | Slavery›Nostalgia | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Flags in the Dust, 12 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›April
Actions: Emotional›Nostalgia
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Slavery›Music
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Coffee | Objects›Guitar
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Flags in the Dust, 20 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Military›Escape | Movement›Limping | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Clothes›Boots | Slavery›Loyalty | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Gun | Objects›Pipe
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Reported narration
Flags in the Dust, 37 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Burial
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Silver
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Burying Sartoris silver
Flags in the Dust, 391 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Nostalgia
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Familial›Dynasty
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Flags in the Dust, 391 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Nostalgia
Flags in the Dust, 55 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Candlelight
Actions: Interaction, Social›Hosting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Music
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present
Go Down, Moses, 10 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Slave hunting | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Race
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Go Down, Moses, 101 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Play›Betting | Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Migration›North | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Marriage | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Genealogy
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Go Down, Moses, 102 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Manumission
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy | Familial›Twins | Interracial›Siblings
Go Down, Moses, 107 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Shame
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Racism | Slavery›Curse
Go Down, Moses, 11 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Verbal›Planning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 11 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Fox-horn | Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 11 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Jewelry | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bumble-bee | Body›Teeth | Objects›Fan | Past›Old days
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Go Down, Moses, 13 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Actions: Bodily›Drinking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Body›Teeth | Past›Old days
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship | Social›Neighbor
Go Down, Moses, 14 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 15 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Horse | Physical›Evasion | Physical›Pursuit | Play›Betting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chivalry | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Past›Old days
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Go Down, Moses, 156 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Law›Inheritance | Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult | Social›Mentorship
Go Down, Moses, 157 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Poisoning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Language›French | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
Go Down, Moses, 158 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Marriage
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Forced
Go Down, Moses, 158 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Neighbor
Go Down, Moses, 158 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Slavery›Biblical curse | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness
Relationships: Familial›Cousin
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Ham | Narrative›Perspective | Symbolism›Blood | Symbolism›Cage
Go Down, Moses, 161 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Labor›Racialized | Slavery›Metaphorical
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood
Go Down, Moses, 18 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Frustration | Physical›Evasion | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Fox-horn
Go Down, Moses, 18 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Objects›Fox-horn
Go Down, Moses, 20 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Escaping | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Walking
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: Tone›Humorous
Go Down, Moses, 22 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Physical›Capture | Play›Betting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Marital›Social respectability | Romantic›Unrequited
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery
Go Down, Moses, 24 (Event)
Actions: Play›Betting | Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Go Down, Moses, 241 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Land-Use›Agricultural | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property
Go Down, Moses, 241 (Event)
Environment: Place›Commisary
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Race›Behaving "white" | Slavery›Persistence over time
Go Down, Moses, 242 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Persistence over time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Go Down, Moses, 242 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Manumission
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Go Down, Moses, 244 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Transhistorical
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Abraham | Allusion, Biblical›Genesis
Go Down, Moses, 245 (Event)
Environment: Place›History
Cultural Issues: History›Indian Removal | Land-Use›Ownership | Religion›Providence | Slavery›Southern curse
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Go Down, Moses, 245 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Indian Removal | Slavery›Curse
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Recurring Episodes›Indian removal | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
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, 248 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Domestic›Housekeeping | Physical›Building | Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Amelioration | Slavery›Housing | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Purchase
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Go Down, Moses, 248 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Amelioration | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Purchase
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Buck and Buddy's experiment
Go Down, Moses, 249 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Verbal›Naming self
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Manumission | Slavery›Naming slaves | Slavery›Purchase
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 25 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Physical›Escaping | Physical›Evasion | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Go Down, Moses, 252 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Death | Texts›Ledger
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 252 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance refusal | Slavery›Manumission | Slavery›Marriage | Slavery›Purchase
Themes and Motifs: Death | Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 253 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Mental›Visualize
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Manumission
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Go Down, Moses, 253 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 253 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Marriage | Slavery›Purchase
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suspicious | Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 255 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | Slavery›Concubinage
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 256 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Evil | Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Interracial›Romantic
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 256 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Field slaves vs house slaves | Slavery›Slave trading
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence
Go Down, Moses, 256 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Persistence over time
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting
Go Down, Moses, 257 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Mental›Realization | Mental›Visualize | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | Slavery›Concubinage
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Ledger
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 258 (Event)
Actions: Play›Card playing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Abolition | Slavery›Marriage
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 258 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Death›Child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Vicksburg | Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Go Down, Moses, 26 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Play›Betting | Play›Card playing | Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Economy›Dowry | Economy›Gambling | Slavery›Marriage | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Alias
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Arrangements
Go Down, Moses, 260 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Rheumatism | Slavery›Purchase
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 263 (Event)
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
Go Down, Moses, 269 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Economy›Wealth | Land-Use›Ownership | Land-Use›Prehuman landscape | Religion›Divine judgment | Slavery›Southern curse
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 270 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Government›Bureaucracy | Race›White race | Slavery›Southern curse
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 271 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Dialogue
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Family
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 273 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Economy›Wealth | History›Civil War | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Slavery›Abolition | War›Civil War consequences
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical
Go Down, Moses, 275 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Government›Voting rights | History›Civil War consequences | History›Reconstruction | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Race›White fear | Race›White supremacists | Slavery›Emancipation | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Interracial violence | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Noah/flood
Go Down, Moses, 279 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood
Go Down, Moses, 279 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Descendants | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Go Down, Moses, 280 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben | Character›Pride | Values›Courage
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Go Down, Moses, 283 (Event)
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
Go Down, Moses, 286 (Event)
Actions: Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Community›Local legends | Inheritance›Property | Money›Inheritance
Go Down, Moses, 287 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Go Down, Moses, 323 (Event)
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
Go Down, Moses, 333 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Hunting›Teaching
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Rite of passage | History›Civil War as point of reference | Hunting and Fishing›Knowledge | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Memory›Remembering | Past›Grander than present | Recurring Tropes›Killing first deer/marked with blood | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Recurring Episodes›De Spain creates camp | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 352 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg | Law›Missing person | Race›Aunt as term for black woman | Slavery›Biblical analogy
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Bible | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Pharaoh | Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals | Description›Character portrait
Go Down, Moses, 356 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Sun
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Teaching | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Crime›Murder | Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Law›Trial | Mass Media›Newspaper | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Persistence over time
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Determinism›Genetic
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Racist term
Go Down, Moses, 36 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Looking back
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Native American | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Go Down, Moses, 360 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Race›Aunt as term for black woman | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Go Down, Moses, 361 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Legacy after emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Exodus | Allusion, Biblical›Pharaoh
Go Down, Moses, 5 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›Widow | Government›Inheritance | Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Go Down, Moses, 54 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Inheritance›Traits | Objects›Pistol | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Competitive
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 6 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Hunting›Fox hunting | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Tie | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Fox | Past›Old days
Relationships: Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Go Down, Moses, 7 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Anglophile | Gender›Bachelor | Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Courtship | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Fox | Past›Old days
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Government›Inheritance | Slavery›Big house vs quarters
Themes and Motifs: Death | Past›Old days
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Buck and Buddy's experiment
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Cooking
Cultural Issues: Economy›Dowry | Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Physical›Running
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Tie | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality | Slavery›Quarters
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Go Down, Moses, 9 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Pony | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Intruder in the Dust, 146 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Creek | Public›Road
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: History›Atomic Age | Slavery›Freedom | Technology›Atomic bomb
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Values›Liberty
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Intruder in the Dust, 191 (Event)
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
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Intruder in the Dust, 85 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Family
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Friendship›Interracial | Interracial›White-black
Intruder in the Dust, 94 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Shame
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Labor
Light in August, 241 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Movement | Violent›Killing
Cultural Issues: Politics›Democrat | Region›New England | Religion›Catholicism | Religion›Methodism | Slavery›Religion
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New England
Light in August, 248 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Killing
Cultural Issues: Politics›Voting | Slavery›Ownership
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Light in August, 250 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Buying a house | Legal›Marriage | Verbal›Tirade
Cultural Issues: Politics›Voting | Slavery›Biblical analogy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Moses | Allusion, Geographical›Israel | Allusion, Geographical›Red Sea | Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham
Light in August, 407 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Quarters
Light in August, 428 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running away | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Lying
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Metaphorical
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Light in August, 444 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Ownership
Light in August, 45 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Eleven o'clock | Time of Year›Tuesday
Actions: Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Metaphorical
Light in August, 467 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Ownership
Light in August, 470 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Domestic›Cooking
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Ownership
Light in August, 471 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Movement›Surrey
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Husband-wife
Light in August, 472 (Event)
Actions: Work›Doctor / medical care
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Abolition | War›Civil War consequences | War›Wound
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war
Light in August, 473 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Preaching | Work›Doctor / medical care
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Civil War
Relationships: Hierarchical›Doctor-patient
Light in August, 475 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Emotional›Denial | Emotional›Refusal | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Kinlessness
Light in August, 476 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Denial | Verbal›Gossip | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | War›Civil War consequences
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Van Dorn, Earl | Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Light in August, 95 (Event)
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity | Slavery›Metaphorical
Relationships: Interracial›Conflict | Sexual›Inappropriate
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Requiem for a Nun, 13 (Event)
Environment: Public›Jail | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Running
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Requiem for a Nun, 171 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Economy›Commerce | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Slave trading
Requiem for a Nun, 176 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jail
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Requiem for a Nun, 176 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Education›Female education | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Progress›Building structure | Slavery›And progress
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bricks
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Queen Victoria | Recurring Episodes›Architect captured | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 191 (Event)
Actions: Work›Janitor
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Nickname
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 24 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Interaction, Social›Making progress | Physical›Building | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Silk | Progress›Building structure | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Iron box
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 27 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hotel
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Interaction, Social›Civic discussion
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Field slaves vs house slaves
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 3 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Receiving mail | Communication›Sending mail | Economic›Trading | Legal›Record keeping
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Iron box | Texts›Civic records
Requiem for a Nun, 30 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Planning | Work›Architect
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Building structure | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Paris | Allusion, Geographical›Sugar Islands|Carribbean | Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 33 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure | Slavery›Growth of | Slavery›Labor
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 33 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›Racism | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Labor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 35 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery›Growth of
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Requiem for a Nun, 6 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Cotton planting | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Slavery›Local origins
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›First settlers arrive | Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival
Requiem for a Nun, 82 (Event)
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
Requiem for a Nun, 84 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Indian Removal | Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›LeFlore, Greenwood | Recurring Episodes›Indian removal | Typography/Orthography›Dash
The Hamlet, 229 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Metaphorical
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom | Romantic›Courtship
The Hamlet, 3 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War as point of reference | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Quarters
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present
The Hamlet, 373 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Plantation culture | Slavery›Civil War
The Hamlet, 4 (Event)
Environment: Place›Decayed house
Actions: Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Land-Use›Agricultural | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust
The Mansion, 446 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Progress›New replacing old | Religion›Religious faith | Slavery›As cause of Civil War | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Superstitions
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Great Lakes | Allusion, Geographical›Gulf Coast | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Reivers , 274 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Legacy after emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Time›Continuity | Time›Past
The Reivers , 61 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Time›Continuity
The Reivers , 81 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Gallery
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Lifting
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Traditions
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Objects›Plow
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Comedy | Language›Hee hee hee | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
The Sound and the Fury, 106 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Place›Sawmill
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Meddling | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Throwing downstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›Elite | Clothes›Silk | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Food›Pumpkin pie | Gender›Bitch | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Southern woman | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Region›The South | Slavery›Galley slave
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flower orchid | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Genre Conventions›Melodrama | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Tone›Overwrought | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 238 (Event)
Environment: Place›Road
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Headache | Health and Illness›Medicine aspirin | Health and Illness›Patent medicine | Progress›Roads | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Car
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ford, Henry | Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 69 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Eating | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Slavery›Naming slaves | Slavery›Religion
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Death›Corpse | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Family history | Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Ghost story | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Genre Conventions›Horror story | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 82 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street
Actions: Interaction, Social›Celebration | Movement›Marching | Verbal›Conversation | Work
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, stovepipe | Clothes›Uniform | History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Prejudice›Racism | Ritual›Birthday | Ritual›Commemoration | Slavery›Abolition | War›Civil War | War›Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R.
Themes and Motifs: Character›Laziness | Community›Crowd | Community›Decoration Day | Community›Parade | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Flag | Past›Family history
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Italian flag | Allusion, Historical›Columbus, Christopher | Allusion, Historical›Garibaldi, Giuseppe | Diction›Racist term
The Town, 331 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Migration
Cultural Issues: History›Arrival of whites in Mississippi | Migration›Intraregional migration | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Travel back in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
The Unvanquished, 102 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Movement›Horse | Movement›Migration | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Race›Stereotype: smell | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
The Unvanquished, 103 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Mental›Disorientation | Movement›Crossing | Movement›Migration | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Singing | Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Explosion
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
The Unvanquished, 11 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Military | Labor›Farming | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Unvanquished, 110 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Miscommunication | Moral›Fraud | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement | War›Profiting from war | War›Union Army
The Unvanquished, 111 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Physical›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation | Texts›Military communications
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Unvanquished, 114 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy | Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Re-enslavement | Slavery›Self-emancipation | Slavery›Slaves vs masters | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Unvanquished, 117 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Messenger
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Re-enslavement
The Unvanquished, 119 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Mule | Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
The Unvanquished, 124 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Military›Reconnaissance
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Objects›Map
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mottstown | Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Unvanquished, 126 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scamming
Cultural Issues: Crime›Forgery | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Naming›Alias | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mottstown | Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Unvanquished, 132 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place
Actions: Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Region›Hapless Yankees | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
The Unvanquished, 134 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Church | Interaction, Social›Noblesse oblige
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Rural | Religion›Episcopal | Religion›Methodism | Slavery›Freedom
Themes and Motifs: Community›Cooperation | Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
The Unvanquished, 134 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering
Cultural Issues: Region›Rural South | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Religion | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules
The Unvanquished, 135 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Interaction, Social›Church
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Demographics | Slavery›Religion
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
The Unvanquished, 136 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery›Freedom | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Community
Relationships: Civic›Charity
The Unvanquished, 139 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
The Unvanquished, 14 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Physical›Eating | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Silverware
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Unvanquished, 143 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Verbal›Begging | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Labor | War›Retreat | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Texts›Military communications
The Unvanquished, 147 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Emotional›Betrayal | Physical›Walking | Verbal›Swearing
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Etiquette | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Values›Propriety
The Unvanquished, 149 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Arson | Violent›Murder | Violent›Raiding
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Violence | War›Destruction | War›Pillage
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
The Unvanquished, 15 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Office | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Listen
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Discipline
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Bonaparte, Napoleon | Allusion, Historical›Coke upon Littleton | Allusion, Historical›Mississippi Reports | Allusion, Literary›Cooper, James Fenimore | Allusion, Literary›Dumas, Alexandre | Allusion, Literary›Josephus, Flavius | Allusion, Literary›Koran | Allusion, Literary›Scott, Walter | Allusion, Literary›Taylor, Jeremy | Narrative›Parentheses
The Unvanquished, 155 (Event)
Environment: Place›Grave | Place›Graveyard | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Vengeful | Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Burial | Death›Coffin | Death›Eulogy | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Objects›Gun | Objects›Umbrella
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
The Unvanquished, 16 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Loyalty
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Tennessee
The Unvanquished, 177 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Weather›Cold
Actions: Movement›Mule | Physical›Riding | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Violence | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Character›Predatory | Death›Corpse | Texts›Note
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Underlining
The Unvanquished, 178 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Fighting | Violent›Killing | Violent›Restraining | Violent›Shooting | Violent›Stabbing
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Yankee uniform | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alabama | Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis | Allusion, Geographical›Texas | Description›Eyes | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Unvanquished, 184 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Physical›Sleeping | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | War›Defeat | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Unvanquished, 189 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Physical›Reading
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Death | War›Union Army
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
The Unvanquished, 19 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Food›Cake | Slavery›Segregation of space
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Uncertain
The Unvanquished, 193 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Insanity | Slavery›Violence
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
The Unvanquished, 193 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Communication›Letter | Movement›Surrey
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Humiliation
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion
The Unvanquished, 198 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Emancipation | War›Civil War consequences | War›Destruction | War›Reconstruction
The Unvanquished, 198 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers | Race›White supremacists | Slavery›Abolition | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Reconstruction
Relationships: Civic›Voting
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Missouri | Allusion, Geographical›Washington, D.C.
The Unvanquished, 20 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Intuition | Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Slavery›Loyalty | War›Defeat
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Unvanquished, 206 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty
The Unvanquished, 22 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Livestock pen
Actions: Movement›Mule | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Slavery›Emancipation | War›Union Army
The Unvanquished, 22 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Resistance | War›Defeat
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
The Unvanquished, 23 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Domestic›Discipline | Movement›Following
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregated space | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Objects›Bible | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Texts›Bible
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Unvanquished, 24 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated | Natural›Cedar trees
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Unvanquished, 3 (Event)
Environment: Place›Smokehouse | Place›Well|Wellhouse | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Physical›Ambush | Play›Historical recreation | Work›Getting water
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War as point of reference | Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Friendship›Childhood friends | Friendship›Racial | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Companions
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›First-person passim | Narrative›Parentheses
The Unvanquished, 37 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Natural›Orchard | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Mental›Dreaming
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
The Unvanquished, 40 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Physical›Carrying
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Labor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
The Unvanquished, 41 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Locking a door
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Silver
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Unvanquished, 44 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Etiquette
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people
The Unvanquished, 46 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Entertainment›Poker game | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Resistance
Themes and Motifs: Body›Physical disability
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Buck and Buddy's experiment
The Unvanquished, 48 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life | Agriculture›Soil quality | Economy›Property | Land-Use›Collective exploitation | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Themes and Motifs: Community
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
The Unvanquished, 63 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Crime›Horse theft | Slavery›Minstrelsy | War›Plunder
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
The Unvanquished, 64 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Movement›Racing
Cultural Issues: Region›Hapless Yankees | Slavery›Minstrelsy | War›Capture | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Aesthetics: Tone›Humorous | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Unvanquished, 66 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Military›Escape | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Clothes›Military | Slavery›Minstrelsy | War›Capture | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Snake | Objects›Pistol | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Recurring Episodes›Sartoris captures Yankees | Tone›Humorous
The Unvanquished, 7 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Family
The Unvanquished, 73 (Event)
Actions: Military›Escape | Verbal›Lying
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation | Slavery›Loyalty | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Language›Profanity
The Unvanquished, 74 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Arson
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed | Objects›Silver
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Language›Profanity
The Unvanquished, 78 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Hat | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Loyalty | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Home›Destroyed | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Unvanquished, 81 (Event)
Environment: Place›Railroad
Actions: Movement›Migration
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Slavery›Freedom
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Human nature
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial
The Unvanquished, 82 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Migration
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: smell | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Destruction | War›Displacement | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Time›Frozen / Static
The Unvanquished, 84 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Movement›Migration | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Race›Solidarity | Slavery›Re-enslavement | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Destruction | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan
The Unvanquished, 89 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Tending to animal
Relationships: Interspecies›Woman-horse
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Unvanquished, 91 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Migration | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Race›Solidarity | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Intertextuality›Faulkner text
The Unvanquished, 91 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Migration
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype Superstitious | Region›Hapless Yankees | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Social›Paternalism
The Unvanquished, 92 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | War›Destruction | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Objects›Silver
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Unvanquished, 99 (Event)
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