| 单词 | suspense novel |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuspense novel C1. attributive. Of popular literature, etc.: characterized by the capacity to arouse suspense, excitement, or apprehension, as suspense novel, suspense story, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > other types of novel political novel1735 comic novel1787 epistolary1804 autobiographical novel1832 Robinsonade1837 roman1867 sea-book1867 roman à clef1882 roman expérimental1884 hill-top novel1895 saga1895 Bildungsroman1910 pulp fiction1931 American Gothic1938 Künstlerroman1941 suspense novel1952 nouveau roman1959 sword and sorcery1961 graphic novel1964 non-fiction novel1965 schlockbuster1966 dark fantasy1968 celebrity novel1969 swashbuckler1975 chick lit1988 splatterpunk1988 Aga saga1992 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [adjective] > other specific types of fictional story metamorphosic1782 locked-room1919 sealed room1939 suspense1952 procedural1956 Boy's Own1967 1952 Spectator 3 Oct. 452/2 Many of their ‘suspense’—as opposed to ‘detective’—novels are first-class. 1957 S. Beach in This Week's Stories of Mystery & Suspense 327 In the suspense story the focus..is fixed on the effort of a single individual to overcome danger. 1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship xi. 220 It gave him a dissolute, suspense-movie look which Miranda rather liked. 1963 Listener 24 Jan. 158/2 Before compressionism could be taken seriously, suspense drama and the literature of confinement had to be brought together. 1972 J. Philips Vanishing Senator iii. iii. 150 You said yesterday I should be writing suspense novels. Well, maybe I've read too many of them. 1977 Amer. Notes & Queries 15 76/2 Norman Donaldson, an authority on suspense fiction, has written a new introduction for this edition. 1980 D. Bloodworth Trapdoor xxix. 175 Enemy agents in suspense thrillers who were programmed by post-hypnotic suggestion. < as lemmas |
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