dénouementの英語

別の表記

• denouement
• dénoûment (archaic)

語源

Unadapted borrowing from French dénouement (“resolution”, literally “unknotting”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /deˈnuːmɑ̃/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌdeɪ.nuˈmɑnt/, /ˌdeɪ.nuˈmɑ̃/

名詞

dénouement (countable and uncountable, plural dénouements)

1. (narratology) The conclusion or resolution of a plot; unravelling.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 271:

     Emily was a great favourite with him; and he had always viewed the attachment, at whose dénouement between her and Lorraine, Lady Mandeville meant to preside, as a somewhat foolish romance.

   • 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 830:

     At last this affair is moving towards the explosive dénouement he has been craving — the revelation, the release of tension, that will shake the universe in one fierce convulsion, and then allow everything to fall back into its rightful place, restored to normality!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dénouement.