英美新批评在西方文论史上占有重要的地位,而“张力”是英美新批评派文学理论的主要范畴,体现着新批评的许多特色,因此新批评也被称为“张力诗学”。本文将这一重要范畴提出的背景及其内涵、意义和影响等做了一个比较详细的梳理,从而进一步认识英美新批评。 The new criticisms of Britain and the United States occupy an important position in the history of Western literary theory, and “tension” is the main category of the new criticism of British and American literary theory, reflecting many of the features of the new criticism. Therefore, the new criticism is also called “tension poetry ”. This article provides a more detailed review of the background proposed by this important category, its meaning, its significance and its impact, so as to further understand the new criticisms from the United States and Britain.