英语词汇“southern gothic”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Southern Gothic adj. and n. (also with lower-case initial in the second element) (a) adj. of, designating, or reminiscent of a genre of fiction set in the southern United States, characterized by plots involving violence or hidden trauma, eccentric and often psychologically troubled characters, and an atmosphere of repression and decay; cf. Gothic adj. and n. Additions; (b) n. the Southern Gothic genre; a work in this genre.

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1935 E. Glasgow in Sat. Rev. 4 May 4/2 I am not asking the novelist of the Southern Gothic school to change his material.

1951 College Eng. 13 1/2 Reviewers found in Reflections in a Golden Eye another late flowering of Southern Gothic.

1958 F. O'Connor Let. 26 Oct. in Habit of Being (1979) 301 I suppose my novel too will be called another Southern Gothic.

1991 Time 25 Nov. 82/2 He spins out his story..recounting Southern-gothic tales of abuse, alcoholism and incest as examples of dysfunctional family behavior.

1997 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 128/2 Other Voices, Other Rooms has been severely marked down in recent decades..part of a general devaluation of the whole school of Southern Gothic.

单词	southern gothic
释义	> as lemmas Southern Gothic Southern Gothic adj. and n. (also with lower-case initial in the second element) (a) adj. of, designating, or reminiscent of a genre of fiction set in the southern United States, characterized by plots involving violence or hidden trauma, eccentric and often psychologically troubled characters, and an atmosphere of repression and decay; cf. Gothic adj. and n. Additions; (b) n. the Southern Gothic genre; a work in this genre. ΚΠ 1935 E. Glasgow in Sat. Rev. 4 May 4/2 I am not asking the novelist of the Southern Gothic school to change his material. 1951 College Eng. 13 1/2 Reviewers found in Reflections in a Golden Eye another late flowering of Southern Gothic. 1958 F. O'Connor Let. 26 Oct. in Habit of Being (1979) 301 I suppose my novel too will be called another Southern Gothic. 1991 Time 25 Nov. 82/2 He spins out his story..recounting Southern-gothic tales of abuse, alcoholism and incest as examples of dysfunctional family behavior. 1997 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 128/2 Other Voices, Other Rooms has been severely marked down in recent decades..part of a general devaluation of the whole school of Southern Gothic. extracted from southernadj.n.¹ < as lemmas
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