| 单词 | story arc |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstory arc Originally Literary Criticism. The principal plot or narrative development of a literary or dramatic work considered in outline form. Now also: spec. (frequently in story arc) a background plot or ongoing storyline in a serial narrative (esp. a television series), within which self-contained episodes are set; an episode or number of episodes which develop such a background story. ΚΠ 1962 F. N. Mennemeier in P. Demetz Brecht 148 There is no ‘great dramatic arc’ in Mother Courage... In Brecht's play there is an artfully static structure which carefully balances individual scenes against each other. 1978 G. Stewart in ELH 45 483 In the proliferated death scenes of Bleak House, Dickens brings death as never before into the pages that intervene between the implied oblivion before and after the arc of story, the unvoiced voids of narrative. 1986 M. Stephens Dramaturgy of Style ix. 229 Very often Stephen Dixon's first-person narrator is not central, though remaining crucial and important, to the dramatic arc. 1995 C. Carter Truth is out There 88 Lea was the only actor considered in Vancouver for the part, which he thought would simply be a three-episode arc. 2001 Dreamwatch Mar. 62/4 With the third series of First Wave nearing completion, Brancato says the overall story arc is pretty much locked down at this point. < as lemmas |
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