美国城市文化对城市文学的影响

The Influence of American City Culture on the City Literature

城市文学是城市文化的有机组成部分,是城市文化发展的必然产物。美国的城市文学真实生动地反映出美国城市化进程中物质和文化的本质特征及其流变,与城市文化之间始终保持着非常紧密的联系。这种相互之间的紧密联系体现出两者之间相互关联与相互影响的特征。城市文化影响着城市文学创作的题材选择与主题提炼,影响着城市文学家思想情感的产生与反映,也影响着各个不同发展时期文学思潮的形成与湮灭。深入探讨这一问题,对于研究美国的城市文化和城市文学,具有相当重要的意义。

The city literature is an organic composition of city culture, an inevitable product of the city cultural development. Truly and vividly it is reflecting the feature and development of the material and cultural essence in the process of American urbanization, American city literature is a very close relationship with the city culture. The city culture affects the subject choice and the theme refining in the composition of city literature, it affects the generation and reflection of the city writers＇ thoughts and affections, it also affects the forming and annihilation of the surge of thoughts of literature in different developmental periods. A thorough study in this topic will be of a significant influence on the research of American city culture and literature.