美国文艺复兴时期的文学意识  

A Critical Survey of the Literary Sense in American Renaissance

作　　者：杨金才[1] 

机构地区：[1]南京大学外国语学院,江苏南京210093

出　　处：《深圳大学学报（人文社会科学版）》2007年第1期5-13,共9页Journal of Shenzhen University：Humanities & Social Sciences

基　　金：国家社科基金项目<美国文艺复兴时期经典作家研究>(批准号:00BWW005)的阶段性成果

摘　　要：对于美国国族文学的发端时间,学术界有不同的看法。但在19世纪上半叶,美国确实出现了各种引人注目的文学现象。建立独立的文化认同与自我成为了美国独立后要完成的重要使命。“新”与“自然”是这一时期美国作家最为关心的话题。从当时许多著名作家在不同场合或创作中表达的文艺思想中可以反映出美国国族文学形成过程中的主题意识和思想特征。The American Renaissance mainly refers to the period from the 1830s roughly to the end of the American Civil War in which American literature, in the wake of the Romantic movement, came of age as an expression of a national spirit. Its literary scene was dominated by a group of writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman, who handled the themes of nation building and cultivated a strong sense of national literature with a desire to sever from the European tradition. This paper tries to explore how these authors helped contribute to the self-reflective nature of the American literary world and shaped an American character by way of either historicized mythopoesis or selfculture.

关 键 词：美国文艺复兴 国族文化 文学意识 文学思想 

分 类 号：I206.2[文学—中国文学]