美国文学思潮

美国文学包括早期美国文学──清教主义和启蒙主义；19世纪美国文学──浪漫主义，现实主义和自然主义；20世纪美国文学──现代主义和后现代主义。它属于世界上最年轻的文学，只有200多年的历史，但涌现了像爱默生、霍桑、麦尔维尔、惠特曼、马克·吐温、豪威尔斯、亨利·詹姆斯、克莱恩、诺里斯、菲兹杰拉德、海明威、福克纳、庞德、艾略特、奥尼尔和阿尔比等伟大作家……

The Trends of Thought of American Literature

American literature includes the Early American Literature - Puritanism and Didacticism, the 19 - century American Literature - Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, and the 20 - century American Literature - Medernism and Post - Modernism. American Literature belongs to the youngest in the world, with a history only about 200 years, but many great writers have emerged out of it, such as Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Twain,Howells, James, Klein, Norris, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Pound, Elliot, and O' Neal,etc.