| 单词 | purpose novel |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurpose novel purpose novel n. a novel written with a specific purpose, for example to defend or attack some doctrine, custom, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > novel of purpose tendenzroman1855 purpose novel1893 tendenz novela1896 roman à thèse1907 thesis-novel1934 1893 F. M. Crawford in Forum (N.Y.) XIV. 594 The purpose-novel is an odious attempt to lecture people who hate lectures, to preach at people who prefer their own Church. 1924 M. E. Speare Polit. Novel i. 29 The ‘purpose novel’..had resolved a heritage into a tradition by the middle of the 19th century. 2002 P. Davis Victorians (2004) 374 Trollope's own career as a novelist really begins with the abandonment of the ‘purpose novel’ in The Warden. < as lemmas |
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