英美文学名词解释.doc

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Epic:
Alongnarrativepoemtellingaboutthedeedsofagreatheroandrefldictions矛盾 of bourgeois资产阶级的 reality. But they did not find a way to eradicate social ) Charls Dickens is the most important critical realist.
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Gothicnovel(哥特式小说):
Gothicnovelisatypeofromanceverypopularlateinthe18th ,violent,mysterious,supernatural,,irrational荒繆的sideofhumannature.
American Romanticism:
the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the civil war . It started with the publication出版 of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass .
It was a rebellion反抗 against the objectivity of rationalism. For romantics, the feelings, intuitions直觉 and emotions were more important than reason and mon sense;
emphasis on imagination, to medieval and natural
The Lost Generation(迷惘的一代）：
Is a term used to characterize a general feeling of disillusionment of American literary notables名人 who live in Europe,most notably著名的 Paris after First World War. Figures identified with the Lost Generation included literary modernists such as Hemingway,,Pound
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