超权威的英美文学名词解释及作家写作风格及作品总结报告.doc

British and American Literature
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名词解释(共5个,共30分)
Modernism: Modernism is a cultural movement that generally includes the progressive art and architecture, design, literature, music, dance, painting and other visual arts which emerged in the beginning of the 20th century, particularly in the years following World War I. It was a movement of artists and designers who rebelled against late 19th century academic and historicist tradition, and embraced the new economic, social and political aspects of the emerging modern key elements of Modernism in literature are experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral ['seribrəl] rather than emotive aspects. The work of Modernist writers is characterized by showing the disenchantment, dislocation, and alienation of men in the world, and by the emphasis on experimentation and formalism and objectivism which are, in most cases, a reaction to the Modern Age.
Enlightenment: The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century. It was an expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie [,bu:ʒwɑ:'zi:] against feudalism. The enlighteners thought the chief means for bettering the society is enlightenment or education for the people.
Transcendentalism:  Transcendentalism [,trænsen'dentlizəm] is a New England movement which flourished from about 1835 t