| 单词 | kailyard school |
| 释义 | > as lemmasKailyard School 2. Used with reference to a class of recent fiction, affecting to describe, with much use of the vernacular, common life in Scotland; hence attributive as Kailyard School, a collective term for the writers of such novels or sketches; kailyard dialect, kailyard vocabulary. [The appellation is taken from the Scottish Jacobite song ‘There grows a bonnie brier bush in our kailyard’, from which ‘Ian Maclaren’ took the title of the series of short stories ‘Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush’ (1894), which was an early and popular example of this school of writing.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > other specific style judicial1532 heroic1590 judiciary1603 wild1645 heroi-comic1708 mock-heroic1708 heroi-comical1712 flebilea1734 prosai-comi-epic1749 lusory1779 sulphureous1791 harlequinic1804 mock-heroical1825 newspaperish1825 marmoreal1892 kailyard1895 freestyle1906 paperback1921 nouny1926 Time-ese1947 nounal1952 kitchen sink1959 effectist1961 writerly1974 dirty realist1984 1895 J. H. Millar Lit. of Kailyard in New Rev. Apr. 384 Mr. J. M. Barrie is fairly entitled to look upon himself as pars magna, if not pars maxima, of the Great Kailyard Movement. 1895 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June Those romances in dialect, very fitly and cleverly called the Literature of the Kailyard by a recent critic. 1896 Dundee Advertiser 1 Aug. Having been assured by many critics that the Kailyard School is quite photographic in its reproduction of Scottish life and character. 1900 Athenæum 9 June 709/3 He wrote as he spoke, and his kailyard vocabulary occasionally baffles his editor. < as lemmas |
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