| 单词 | subtext |
| 例句 | subtext nounWORD NOTE subtext Alertness to the “hidden meanings” or unspoken assumptions of a text is necessary for anyone who hopes to read with understanding. Though abused by overuse in academic writing, subtext is nonetheless a useful term: Under its aegis lurk unreliable narration, irony, double-entendre, misdirection, and many of the other techniques that transform the artless into the artful. All mysteries, for instance, seek to discover the proper subtext of a narrative designed, by the murderer and the author, to mislead the detective and the reader. A classic of literary criticism like Seven Types of Ambiguity strips the veneer from numerous English poems to disclose unsuspected and multiple subtexts behind even the most seemingly pellucid lines. A novel like Nabokov's Pale Fire is almost nothing but subtext. Works of art are generally more than they seem at first sight, and only after a long, intent second glance do we start to detect the embedded symbolism, the secret messages and the deep structures that generate richness and complexity. — MDConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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