伊甸园神话的构建与陨落——论基督教与美国文学的关系

The Construction and the Fall of the Paradise Myth——On the Relationship between Christianity and American Literature

基督教对美国文学产生了重要的影响。从早期殖民地时期文学中的清教思想到现代主义文学中的"上帝死了",再到当代文学中多元化与全球化的倾向,基督教在不同时期以不同的方式深刻地影响着美国文学。从总体来看,美国文学是建筑在《圣经》伊甸园神话基础上的文学。

Abstract： Christianity has a great influence on American literature. From the puritan thoughts in the literature of the colonial America through the view that ＂God is dead＂ in modernist literature to the multitude and globaliza- tion in contemporary literature, Christianity has influenced American literature deeply and profoundly for centuries in different ways at different times. From a general view, American literature is one constructed on the basis of the paradise myth in The Bible.