爱伦·坡小说叙事与国家想象

Edgar Allan Poe’s Fiction Narrative and National Imagination

学界对爱伦·坡小说的"美国性"存在争议,坡的叙事技巧实则揭示了他的小说是对美国国家的文学想象。坡将幽默叙事幽默和"荒诞"结合起来,成为20世纪后半期美国黑色幽默小说叙事的不祧之祖;讽刺叙事兼具幽默和嘲讽双重特质,对美国文化和社会制度的建构来说无疑是一剂苦口良药;而催眠叙事预设了"精英"和"民粹"的对立,拷问了美国梦文学发展的健康维度。

Critics have been arguing over the Americanness of Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction. The analysis of narrative techniques could reveal that Poe’s fiction narrative techniques indeed reveal that his fiction writing is full of the literary imagination of Americanness. Poe’s humor narration which combines humor and absurdity foretells the coming of American Black Humor fiction in the late 20 thcentury;his satirical narration, both humorous and ironic, is bitter medicine to the construction of American cultural and social system;his mesmeric narration, presupposing the opposition of elitism and populism, is healthy for the development of American Dream literature.