Themes and Motifs: Past Past vs present

Parent Term

Sibling Terms

Tagged Events

"A Bear Hunt", 63 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›River-bottom
Actions: Economic›Selling | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Technological
Themes and Motifs: Body›Teeth | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations
"A Bear Hunt", 64 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Selling
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Unemployment
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Great Depression
"A Bear Hunt", 79 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Patience | Emotional›Waiting | Movement›Racing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Collar | Labor›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Objects›Gun | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Natchez, Mississippi | Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Allusion, Historical›Steamboat race | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Irony | Tone›Humorous
"All the Dead Pilots", 511 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Nostalgia
Cultural Issues: Age | Progress›Air travel
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Art›Photograph | Death | Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Jazz Age | Figures of Speech›Musical imagery | Language›Slang, military | Metafictional›Picture/image
Absalom, Absalom!, 18 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Quietness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Buggy | Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Health and Illness›Fever | Modernity›Changing customs | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Sensory memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Past vs present | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Separated
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Typography/Orthography›Dash
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
Go Down, Moses, 303 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Trophy | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Go Down, Moses, 305 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Natural›Wilderness | Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Actions: Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Go Down, Moses, 319 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wildlife
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Tone›Nostalgic
Go Down, Moses, 319 (Event)
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
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
Intruder in the Dust, 117 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Monday
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Apron | Clothes›Cap | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Store clothes | Segregation›Daily life
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Past›Past vs present
The Mansion, 365 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anguish
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure | Progress›Growing population
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Plantation to housing development