| 单词 | psychological novelist |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspsychological novelist psychological novelist n. a writer of psychological novels. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > psychological novel > writer of psychological novelist1857 1857 H. Melville Confidence-man xiv. 106 There is a prejudice against inconsistent characters in books, yet the prejudice bears the other way, when what seemed at first their inconsistency, afterwards, by the skill of the writer, turns out to be their good keeping. At least, something like this is claimed for certain psychological novelists. 1915 A. D. Gillespie Let. 14 Mar. in Lett. from Flanders (1916) 49 He can tell a rattling good story, which many of those modern psychological novelists, with their elaborate analysis of character and of sensation, quite fail to do. 2003 M. T. Gilmore Surface & Depth 105 He has been acclaimed as the greatest psychological novelist of his time. < as lemmas |
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