英语词汇“great american novel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Great American Novel n. a novel regarded as being of superior merit and encapsulating American values and experiences or evoking the ethos of its era; often (esp. as the Great American Novel) discussed as a literary aspiration rather than as an attained ideal.In quot. 1867 not a fixed collocation.

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1867 N.Y. Observer & Chron. 7 Nov. 355 (advt.) ‘Waiting for the Verdict’ By Mrs. R. H. Davis... The Great American Novel.

1868 J. W. DeForest in Nation 9 Jan. 27/2 The Great American Poem will not be written..until democracy..has agonized and conquered through centuries... But the Great American Novel—the picture of the ordinary emotions and manners of American existence..will, we suppose, be possible earlier.

1909 Atlantic Monthly May 712/2 The Atlantic would not suggest as news the self-evident fact that the great American novel has not appeared.

1951 N. Cassady Let. 15 May (2005) 293 Great news that Jack's finished On The Road... He should create another and another work (like Proust) and then we'll have the Great American Novel.

1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes ii. 50 He told me that if I were Hemingway I should go to Paris, live on fried potatoes and ketchup, write The Great American Novel and have done with it.

1988 M. Bradbury Unsent Lett. 61 All of them seemed to be planning Great American Novels that were even Greater than the Great American Novels they were teaching in class.

2004 New Yorker 14 June 112/2 There..was a tremendous surge of ambition on the part of American artists—a lot of talk about the Great American Novel and hitting the ball out of the park.

单词	great american novel
释义	> as lemmas Great American Novel Great American Novel n. a novel regarded as being of superior merit and encapsulating American values and experiences or evoking the ethos of its era; often (esp. as the Great American Novel) discussed as a literary aspiration rather than as an attained ideal.In quot. 1867 not a fixed collocation. ΚΠ 1867 N.Y. Observer & Chron. 7 Nov. 355 (advt.) ‘Waiting for the Verdict’ By Mrs. R. H. Davis... The Great American Novel. 1868 J. W. DeForest in Nation 9 Jan. 27/2 The Great American Poem will not be written..until democracy..has agonized and conquered through centuries... But the Great American Novel—the picture of the ordinary emotions and manners of American existence..will, we suppose, be possible earlier. 1909 Atlantic Monthly May 712/2 The Atlantic would not suggest as news the self-evident fact that the great American novel has not appeared. 1951 N. Cassady Let. 15 May (2005) 293 Great news that Jack's finished On The Road... He should create another and another work (like Proust) and then we'll have the Great American Novel. 1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes ii. 50 He told me that if I were Hemingway I should go to Paris, live on fried potatoes and ketchup, write The Great American Novel and have done with it. 1988 M. Bradbury Unsent Lett. 61 All of them seemed to be planning Great American Novels that were even Greater than the Great American Novels they were teaching in class. 2004 New Yorker 14 June 112/2 There..was a tremendous surge of ambition on the part of American artists—a lot of talk about the Great American Novel and hitting the ball out of the park. extracted from greatadj.n.adv.int. < as lemmas
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