美国文学文学名词解释.docx

1 Modernism(现代主义)
Modernism prehensive but vague term for a  movement , which begin in the late 19th century and which has had a wide influence internationally during much of the 20th century.
2> modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical case.
3> the term pertains to all the creative arts. Especially poetry, fiction, drama, painting, music and architecture.
现代主义是全面但运动模糊的术语,在19世纪末期开始,在国际上有广泛影响的在20世纪的大部分时间。2 >现代主义以非理性哲学和精神分析理论为其理论的情况。3 >这个词属于所有的创造性艺术。特别是诗歌、小说、戏剧、绘画、音乐和建筑。
2 Transcendentalism(超验主义)  (
来Transcendentalism is literature, philosophical and literary movement that flourished in new England from about 1836 to 1860. it is the summit of American Romanticism. it originated among a small group of intellectuals who were reacting against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the Unitarian Church, developing instead their own faith centering on the divinity of humanity and the natural world. Transcendentalism derived some of its basic idealistic concepts from romantic German philosophy, and from such English authors as Coleridge and Wordsworth. Its mystical aspects were partly influenced by Indian and Chinese religious teachings. Although Transcendentalism was never a rigorously systematic philosophy, it had some basic s that were generally shared by its adherents. The beliefs that God is immanent in each