单词 | prose fiction |
释义 | > as lemmasprose fiction prose fiction n. fiction in prose form, esp. as a literary genre; (occasionally) a piece of such fiction. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] poetrya1387 fiction1599 prose fiction1808 science fiction1851 1808 W. Scott Life Dryden viii. 496 Boccacio, whose prose fictions demanded more additions from the poet than the exuberant imagery of Chaucer. 1836 J. F. Davis Chinese II. xvi. 177 We may..proceed to consider Chinese belles lettres in the threefold division of Drama, Poetry, and prose Fiction. 1919 V. Woolf in Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Apr. 189/2 It is for..[the historian of literature] to ascertain whether we are now at the beginning, or middle, or end, of a great period of prose fiction. 1990 E. James T. Hardy (BNC) 27 [Jude the Obscure] brought to an end a career in prose fiction which had seen the publication of 14 novels and some 40 stories. < as lemmas |
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