| 单词 | fiction |
| 释义 | fiction (fɪkʃən ) Word forms: fictions 1. uncountable noun B1 Fiction refers to books and stories about imaginary people and events, rather than books about real people or events. Immigrant tales have always been popular themes in fiction. Diana is a writer of historical fiction. Synonyms: tale, story, novel, legend 2. See also science fiction 3. uncountable noun A statement or account that is fiction is not true. The truth or fiction of this story has never been truly determined. 4. countable noun If something is a fiction, it is not true, although people sometimes pretend that it is true. Is the idea of 'true love' a fiction in itself? Quotations: ' Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fictionDon Juan Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truerContemporary Novelists Literature is a luxury. Fiction is a necessityThe Defendant Collocations: fiction reading Teaching a poetry workshop, giving a fiction reading. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The group also holds staged multimedia fiction readings accompanied by electronic music and incorporating visual art and theater as a frame narrative. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This annual series of public poetry and fiction readings, lectures, symposia, and occasional dramatic performances began in the 1940s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The museum also sponsors concerts, performances, film and video screenings, poetry and fiction readings, and lectures by artists, critics and scholars. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the winter, he retreats into his study to pursue fiction writing. Times, Sunday Times But at least he won't have to stack shelves if the fiction writing doesn't work out. Times, Sunday Times As a full-time journalist, she continued her fiction writing, combining it with human interest pieces and celebrity profiles. ST What got you started in fiction writing? ST Fiction writing isolates the writer. Globe and Mail In fact, I like honest genre fiction. The Times Literary Supplement (2010) Some literary writers have patronising attitudes to genre fiction. Times, Sunday Times (2014) There are elements of genre crime fiction in that plot, but they are nicely subverted. Times, Sunday Times (2008) What lifted the book above the level of conventional historical fiction were its regular metafictional digressions. The Times Literary Supplement (2015) Who says historical fiction lacks true grit? Times, Sunday Times (2015) When does historical fiction become historical fantasy? Times, Sunday Times (2015) There is often a whiff of the re-enactment society about historical fiction. The Times Literary Supplement (2012) Once confined to horror fiction, now they are everywhere. Times, Sunday Times Entries span everything from graphic novels and travelogues to horror fiction and literary biography. Times, Sunday Times I read a lot of fantasy and horror fiction. Times,Sunday Times It features dark fantasy, horror fiction, and articles related to those subjects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The undead are featured in the belief systems of most cultures, and appear in many works of fantasy and horror fiction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She realised that the ' pretentious, arty, plotless literary fiction' that she had been trying to write for adults was rubbish. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Self moaned last year that difficult literary fiction was a dying art form. Times, Sunday Times (2015) One judge said that it was the first time literary fiction had successfully dealt with the internet. Times, Sunday Times (2014) One way of injecting that element would be for the judges to look more closely and favourably at genre fiction as well as literary fiction. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Read literary fiction and nonfiction. Times, Sunday Times (2015) When he began writing in the early 1950s, his obsessions were too weird for mainstream fiction. Times, Sunday Times But the quality of his writing, in particular his ability to describe the struggles of downtrodden people, had also gained him a wide reputation in mainstream fiction. The Times Literary Supplement About half the content of the magazine was devoted to supernatural fiction; the rest to mainstream fiction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He wanted to expand his range as a writer beyond poetry and mainstream fiction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Slipstream falls between speculative fiction and mainstream fiction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This arrogant creep aggressively tried to ruin other people's lives to maintain his fiction. The Sun And they continue to maintain the fiction that 'an open mind was retained throughout'. The Sun Or should he maintain a fiction, and mislead the patient? Times, Sunday Times Nor can they maintain the fiction of 'saving' patients when they are putting their lives at risk. The Sun And it's vital that you all maintain the fiction we've been chatting like this forever. Times, Sunday Times His name no longer sets off vibrations of expectancy and curiosity among readers of modern fiction. The Times Literary Supplement While the myths held up well otherwise, the flaws in the modern fiction were immediately apparent. Times, Sunday Times We should take it as an augury of modern fiction. Times, Sunday Times Makes you ravenous for worldwide modern fiction, doesn't it? Times, Sunday Times Today modern fiction throws in details that give a realistic sense, but ancient legends were never written like that. Christianity Today I can also understand that, as a genre, they are television's great gift to narrative fiction, but they all fill me with bleak despair. Times, Sunday Times In happy contrast the short snippets of narrative fiction that form the bulk of this book elucidate the novel's primary themes with grace and complexity. The Times Literary Supplement Such theories see dominant ideology as purely a matter of messages, propagated in this case through the forms of narrative fiction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At this time, he began to write poetry, and then continued writing narrative fiction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The material performed was plays, poems, narrative fiction, and non-dramatic literature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Having a classical actor of such distinction grace a piece of popular fiction gave the series a heft it probably did not deserve. Times, Sunday Times For a while, having an aged protagonist has been a trend in popular fiction. Times, Sunday Times Celebrity defence lawyers, detectives, forensic experts, criminologists, crime reporters and writers of popular fiction all dealt in argument, evidence and empathy. The Times Literary Supplement Popular fiction often creates this mildly agreeable sense that you've read it all before somewhere, but seldom to the same extent. Times, Sunday Times In the past, writers of popular fiction have complained of publishers pressuring them to make characters more sympathetic. Times, Sunday Times Nod toward them as politely and judiciously as you want; they are nonetheless novels mostly by courtesy of their being works of extended prose fiction. Christianity Today Translation and prose fiction in the eighteenth century 272pp. The Times Literary Supplement It was his first piece of prose fiction. Times, Sunday Times He kept attempting something new, both in drama and in prose fiction, and if one reads beyond the standard canon, one makes many rewarding discoveries. The Times Literary Supplement As the keynote to a collection of prose fiction, however, it has the appearance of a distress signal. The Times Literary Supplement Employing a male first-person narrator in this first work of fiction published under her own name is also a kind of literary vanishing trick. Times, Sunday Times (2012) In fact about fifty of its students have got fiction publishing deals. Times, Sunday Times (2017) What one is hard pressed to find is great fiction published by evangelical houses. Christianity Today (2000) And, as all regular motorway users know, overhead gantries which tell of trouble ahead are works of pure fiction. The Sun The technology was pure fiction but four decades on, just how far have we come? Times, Sunday Times Parts of the novel, of course, are pure fiction. Times, Sunday Times The implication that the number of accidents will go down must be pure fiction. The Sun This includes fake books, which come out about me all the time, always anonymous sources, and are pure fiction. Times, Sunday Times Trying to get all that across, naturally, in a piece of realist fiction, has to be almost impossible. Times, Sunday Times Realist fiction makes connections and creates sympathy so any stranger who comes within its sights doesn't stay a stranger for long. The Times Literary Supplement An inexplicable tangent, unprovoked alteration in mood, or rupture of sense pushes realist fiction into the realm of the picaresque, science fiction, or fantasy. The Times Literary Supplement His effect on me was simply too painful to confront with realist fiction or, worse yet, autobiography. Globe and Mail According to his argument, traditional genres, such as realist fiction, are failing to adequately reflect lived reality because they have gone largely unchanged since their early development. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What matters about spy fiction isn't the spies, but the historical contexts and conditions that demand such fantasies. The Times Literary Supplement Even if that were true, it would hardly be a quality unique to spy fiction. The Times Literary Supplement It sounds like spy fiction, but it actually happened. Times, Sunday Times Fans of spy fiction have been waiting a long time for a top-quality female-centred thriller. Times, Sunday Times The last explores spy fiction, a genre that more than any other reflects the politics of the time. Times, Sunday Times Employing a male first-person narrator in this first work of fiction published under her own name is also a kind of literary vanishing trick. Times, Sunday Times (2012) This reads like a work of fiction to me, and if there's one thing that gets my dander up it's being taken for a ride. A SONG AT TWILIGHT (2002) It would be insulting to dedicate a work of fiction, essentially a work of entertainment, to them. WALL GAMES (2002) Any work of fiction would struggle to satisfy those expectations. Times, Sunday Times (2017) It was his first work of fiction. The Sun (2016) Of course, literary critics should always be careful about reading too much biographical detail into works of fiction. The Times Literary Supplement (2012) The expected delays could soon leave its timetables looking like works of fiction. Times, Sunday Times (2006) This is after publishing three works of fiction before the age of thirty. The Times Literary Supplement (2011) In 1988 David Muir wrote a guidebook for the National Trust after which he began to write fiction. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE (2002) Do you prefer writing fiction or nonfiction? The Sun (2011) This is a sharp and funny satire about the whole sorry business of writing fiction. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Translations: Chinese: 小说 Japanese: フィクション |
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