Cultural Issues: War Defeat
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Aerial combat
- American Revolution
- As educational
- As metaphor
- Atrocity
- Bivouac fires
- Bombing
- Campaign
- Capture
- Casualties of war
- Civil War
- Civil War consequences
- Confederate Army
- Cost of war
- Death
- Demotion
- Deployment
- Deprivation
- Desertion
- Destruction
- Displacement
- Draft
- Draft evasion / Draft dodging
- Fog of War
- Glorification
- Going to war
- Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R.
- Homefront
- Indian / Native American wars
- Insubordination
- Irregular troop
- Jacobite Rebellion
- Korean War
- Mercenary
- Mexican
- Military awards
- Military rank of general
- Military reassignment
- Military service
- Naval warfare
- Noncombatant
- On homefront
- Patriotism
- Peace
- Pillage
- Play at War
- Plunder
- Prisoner
- Profiting from war
- Psychological effects
- Reconstruction
- Recuperation
- Red Cross
- Refuge
- Refugee
- Retreat
- Return
- Return from war
- Return to war
- Revenge
- Royal Air Force
- Rules of engagement
- Sabotage
- Scorched-earth policy
- Spanish American War
- Spanish Civil War
- Spoils
- Stolen valor
- Strategy
- Surrender
- Trenches
- U.S. Army
- Union Army
- Unity
- Veterans
- Violence against civilians
- War of 1812
- Women
- World War I
- World War II
- Wound
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›National | War›Defeat
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Cambrai
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Actions: Moral›Secret | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Themes and Motifs: Futility›In battle | Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | History›Battle of Britain | War›Defeat | War›Royal Air Force
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Identity, Personal›Soldier | Politics›Voting | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Memory›Remembering passim
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Conflict
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Age›War | Gender›War | War›Defeat | War›Homefront | War›Scorched-earth policy | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Men | Absence/Loss›War | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Handwriting | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Social›Charity | Verbal›Preaching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | War›Defeat | War›Homefront
Cultural Issues: Region›Lost Cause | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›April
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Self-pity | Mental›Fatalism | Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Religion›God | Religion›Providence | War›Defeat | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Death›Like death | Determinism›Fated | Futility›Nothing to do | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Psychological›Trauma | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Heaven | Figures of Speech›Negation | Tone›Elegiac
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Place›Grave | Time of Year›Winter
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ruthless | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Rape | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Rhetorical question
Cultural Issues: Religion›Providence | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated | Meaning | Story-telling›Audience response
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Interpretation›Theodicy
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alabama | Allusion, Geographical›Georgia | Allusion, Geographical›South Carolina | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Atlanta | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Chickamauga | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Corinth | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Franklin | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Vicksburg | Allusion, Historical›Bertrand du Guesclin | Allusion, Historical›Richard I of England | Allusion, Historical›Roland of Roncesvalles
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Dawn
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Note | Communication›Writing | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Godhead | Religion›Providence | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Absence/Loss›War | Inheritance›Traits | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Texts›Note | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Atmospheric›Haunted | Auditory›Echoing
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Unaware | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking back
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Community›Alienation | Determinism›Lack of choice | Futility›Inability | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Haunted by past | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Long passage of time
Actions: Interaction, Social›Charity | Verbal›Preaching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Religion›Providence | Religion›Relationship with God | War›Defeat | War›Homefront
Actions: Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Region›Lost Cause | War›Defeat
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Silver | Objects›Silverware | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Gossip
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Tennessee
Actions: Emotional›Intuition | Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave