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美国文学名词解释

1. Transcendentalism—it is a philosophic and literary movement that flourish in New England, as a reaction against rationalism and Calvinism. It stressed intuitive understanding of god without the help of the church, and advocated independence of the mind. 超验主义，它是一个蓬勃发展的新英格兰的哲学和文学运动，反对理性主义和加尔文主义的反应。它强调直观地了解上帝没有教会的帮助下，主张心灵的独立性。

2. Romanticism had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spread to conti nental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenth century. It came into being as a re action against the prevailing neoclassical spirit and rationalism during the Age of Reason. 浪漫主义曾经出现在英国，在过去几年的十八世纪。它蔓延到欧洲大陆，然后来到美国在十九世纪初。它应运而生作为理性的时代中针对当时新古典主义精神和理性的反应。

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1. American Puritanism

it it comes comes comes from from from the the the American American American puritans, puritans, puritans, who who who were were were the the the first first first immigrants immigrants immigrants moved moved moved to to American continent in the 17th century. Original sin, predestination （预言）（预言） and salvation （拯救） were the basic ideas of American Puritanism. And, hard-working, piousness （虔诚,尽职）， thrift and sobriety （清醒）（清醒）

（清醒） were praised. 2. Romanticism: the literature term was first applied to the writers of the 18th century

in Europe who broke away from the formal rules of classical writing. When it was used used in in in American American American literature literature literature it it it referred referred referred to to to the the the writers writers writers of of of the the the middle middle middle of of of the the 19th century century who who who stimulated stimulated （刺激）（刺激） the the sentimental

美国文学选读名词解释

1.Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs o f t h e P u r i t a n s.

1.simply speaking ; American Puritanism just refers to the spirit and ideal of puritans;who settled in the North American continent in the early part of the seventeenth century because of religious persecutions.

2.In content it means scrupulous ;moral

rigor ;especially hostility to social pleasure and religion .

3.with time passing it became a dominant factor in American life ; one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and literature.to some extent it is a state of mind;a part of the national cultural atmosphere that the American breathes ;rather than a set of tenets.

美国文学名词解释

美国文学，作为世界文学的重要组成部分，有着丰富多彩的文化背

景和独特的创作风格。在这篇文章中，我将为您解释几个与美国文学

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美国文学

1.殖民地时期及独立革命战争时期的美国文学

Philip Freneau（菲利普﹒弗瑞诺）

(1)He was considered as the “Poet of the American revolution” as the most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century. (2)He was a satirist, a bitter polemicist. (3)He wrote many poems encouraging revolution and encouraging the glory that would be won by overcoming the British.

The Wild Honey Suckle 《野金银花》

The Indian Burying Ground 《印第安人的殡葬地》

The British Ship《英国囚船》

The Rising Glory of America 《美洲光辉的兴起》

(1)The Wild Honey Suckle is Freneau’s best lyric (2)It anticipated the 19th—century use of simple nature imagery.

The Indian Burying Ground anticipated romantic primitivism and the celebration of the “Noble Savage”.

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The American Enlightenment is the intellectual thriving period in America in the mid-to-late 18th century (1715–1789), especially as it relates to American Revolution on the one hand and the European Enlightenment on the other. Influenced by the scientific revolution of the

17th century and the humanist period during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment took scientific reasoning and applied it to human nature, society, and religion.

Politically, the age is distinguished by an emphasis upon liberty, democracy, republicanism and religious tolerance –culminating in the drafting of the United States Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Attempts to reconcile science and religion resulted in a rejection of prophecy, miracle and revealed religion, often in preference for Deism. Historians have considered how the ideas of John Locke and republicanism merged to form republicanism in the United States. The most important leaders of the American Enlightenment include Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

美国文学名词解释

美国文学名词解释1. American Puritanism

American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature. It has become; to some extent; so much a state of mind; rather than a set of tenets; so much a part of the national cultural atmosphere that the Americans breathe. It stresses predestination; original sin; total depravity; and limited atonement or the salvation of a selected few from God’s grace. With such doctrines in their minds; Puritans left Europe for America in order to establish a theocracy in the New World. Over the years in the new homeland they built a way of life that stressed hard work; thrift; piety; and sobriety.

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Free V erse:is poetry that is based on irregular rhythmic cadence（抑扬顿挫，节奏）recurring ,with

variations of phrases ,image ,and syntactical patterns rather than the conventional use of meter . In other word ,free verse has no rhythm scheme, pattern or line length, new form, new subject, message was always more

important than form .However ,much poetic language and devices（手段，策略）are found in free verse .

It is used in Walt Whitman’s poems.

Local Colorism: is defined by Hamlin Garland加兰in his Crumbling Idols as having “such quality of texture（手感，质感）and background that is could not have been written in any other place or by anyone else than a native”

Texture refers to the elements which characterize（是---特征，以----为特征）a local culture , elements such as speech , customs , and mores peculiar to one particular place.

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1.American Romanticism: the literature term was first applied to the writers of the 18th century

in Europe who broke away from the formal rules of classical writing. When it was used in American literature it referred to the writers of the middle of the 19th century who stimulated （刺激）the sentimental emotions of their readers. They wrote of the mysterious of life, love, birth and death. The Romantic writers expressed themselves freely and without restraint. They wrote all kinds of materials, poetry, essays, plays, fictions, history, works of travel, and biography.

2.Transcendentalism (先验说,超越论): is a philosophic and literary movement that flourished

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1.American Romanticism(美国浪漫主义)

①Romanticism refers to an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual’s expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions.

②The romantic period in American literature stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outbreak of the Civil war.

③Irving, Whitman and Thoreau are the representatives.

Background

(1)Political background and economic development

(2)Romantic movement in European countries

美国文学史及选读名词解释

1. Transcendentalism

19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of man, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths. In their religious quest, the Transcendentalists rejected the conventions of

18th-century thought; and what began in a dissatisfaction with Unitarianism developed into a repudiation of the whole established order.

2. Langston Hughes

American poet and writer emphasized on lower-class black life. He established himself as a major force of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1926, in the Nation, he provided the movement with a manifesto when he skillfully argued the need for both race pride and artistic independence in his most memorable essay, 'The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." In many ways Hughes always remained loyal to the principles he had laid down for the younger black writers in 1926. His art was firmly rooted in race pride and race feeling even as he cherished his freedom as an artist. He was both nationalist and cosmopolitan. As a radical democrat, he believed that art should be accessible to as many people as possible. He could sometimes be bitter, but his art is generally suffused by a keen sense of the ideal and by a profound love of humanity, especially black Americans.

美国文学-名词解释

美国文学

1.殖民地时期及独立革命战争时期的美国文学

Philip Freneau（菲利普﹒弗瑞诺）

The Indian Burying Ground 《印第安人的殡葬地》

The British Ship《英国囚船》

The Rising Glory of America 《美洲光辉的兴起》

(1)The Wild Honey Suckle is Freneau’s best lyric (2)It anticipated the 19th—century use of simple nature imagery.

The Indian Burying Ground anticipated romantic primitivism and the celebration of the “Noble Savage”.

美国文学名词解释

1、puritan thought:

i : to make pure their religious beliefs and practices

ii: wish to restore simplicity to church services and the authority of the Bible

iii: Puritans should include all kinds of people, humblest loftiest(最高贵的) ,poor and rich.

iiii: Puritans opposition to pleasure and their lives were disciplined and hard

iiiii: Puritan religious teaching tended to emphasize the image of a wrathful (愤怒的)God and forget His mercy.

2、Transcendentalism (超验主义)

American Romanticism culminated around the 1840s in what has come to be known as “New England Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance”. It served as an ethical guide to life for a young nation and brought about the idea that human can be pefected by nature. It stressed religious tolerance, called to throw off shackles of customs and traditions and go forward to the development of a new and distinctly American culture. The leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose Nature has been called “The Manifesto of American Transcendentalism”and whose “The American Scholar”has been rightly regarded as America’s “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”, advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. Like him, most transcendentalists advocated idealism that was great needed in a rapidly expanded economy where opportunity often became opportunism, and the desire to “get on” obscured the moral necessity for rising to spiritual height. The views they kept helped to create the first American Renaissance- one of the most prolific period in American literature.

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Colonial Period:

1.American Puritanism

it comes from the American puritans, who were the first immigrants moved to American continent in the 17th century. Original sin, predestination（预言）and salvation（拯救）were the basic ideas of American Puritanism. And, hard-working, piousness（虔诚,尽职），thrift and sobriety（清醒）were praised.

Romanticism Period:

2.Romanticism: the literature term was first applied to the writers of the

18th century in Europe who broke away from the formal rules of classical writing. When it was used in American literature it referred to the writers of the middle of the 19th century who stimulated（刺激）the sentimental emotions of their readers. They wrote of the mysterious of life, love, birth and death. The Romantic writers expressed themselves freely and without restraint. They wrote all kinds of materials, poetry, essays, plays, fictions, history, works of travel, and biography.

美国文学名词解释

1.Imagism（意象派

Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery, and clear, sharp language. The Imagists rejected the sentiment and artifice typical of much Romantic and Victorian poetry. This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the Georgian poets, who were by and large content to work within that tradition. Based in London, the Imagists were drawn from Britain, Ireland and the United States. Somewhat unusually for the time, the Imagists featured a number of women writers among their major figures. At the time Imagism emerged, Longfellow and Tennyson were considered the paragons of poetry, and the public valued the sometimes moralizing tone of their writings.

美国文学名词解释

1.American Puritanism

2.Romanticism: the literature term was first applied to the writers of the 18th century in Europe who broke away from the formal rules of classical

writing. When it was used in American literature it referred to the writers of the middle of the 19th century who stimulated（刺激）the sentimental emotions of their readers. They wrote of the mysterious of life, love, birth and death. The Romantic writers expressed themselves freely and without restraint. They wrote all kinds of materials, poetry, essays, plays, fictions, history, works of travel, and biography.

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