英美文学名词解释(explain in English)

Transcendentalism 超验主义,先验论

The Lost Generation 跨掉的一代

Morality play 道德剧(西方中世纪末一种灌输善恶等观念的宗教戏剧,又称"寓意剧")

Feminism 男女平等主义,争取女权运动,(或者生理上说的"女性化")

Imagism 意象主义(一种英美诗歌流派,主张使用自由体写作,表达一瞬间的直觉和思想)

1. Transcendentalism: A literary and philosophical movement, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.
2. The Lost Generation: The term was first used by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), one of the leaders of this group. It included the young English and American expatriates as well as men and women caught in the war and cut off from the old values and yet unable to come to terms with the new era when civilization had gone mad. It means this generation had lost the beautiful sense of the calm idyllic past.
3. Morality play: It is also called morality, an allegorical drama popular in Europe especially during the 15th