Edgar Allan Poe occupies a unique position in the history of American literature.His gothic horror novels prove astounding on account of extraordinary rendering the atmosphere and in-depth psychological description.In...Edgar Allan Poe occupies a unique position in the history of American literature.His gothic horror novels prove astounding on account of extraordinary rendering the atmosphere and in-depth psychological description.In his gothic novels,pestilence,tuberculosis and madness are common and the protagonists always suffer from foregoing diseases.Based on the investigation of the relation between Poe’s life and illness and the social and cultural background of Poe’s time,the thesis aims to discuss the emergence and embodiment of illness narratives in Poe’s tales in order to explore the aesthetic values and cultural connotations.展开更多
Edgar Allan Poe is a writer who establishes a new school in the American history of literature.He firstly and consciously takes the short story as an independent literature style,advances his own composing theory of s...Edgar Allan Poe is a writer who establishes a new school in the American history of literature.He firstly and consciously takes the short story as an independent literature style,advances his own composing theory of short stories and applies it to his composition of Gothic novels.He plays a great role in the contribution of the internal development of Gothic novels for he organically unified the moral exploration and psychological exploration,thoroughly displayed the conflict between the good and the evil as well as advanced the composing technique of Gothic novels to the extremely high artistic state.This paper holds that the Gothic technique is successfully applied in one of Edgar Allan Poe's famous short stories A Cask of Amontillado in three aspects: theme and plot,characterization and atmosphere,and its author reveals people's most deep-hidden inner world and exposes the ugliness of human's nature by way of the Gothic technique and the special effects of terror.展开更多
文摘Edgar Allan Poe occupies a unique position in the history of American literature.His gothic horror novels prove astounding on account of extraordinary rendering the atmosphere and in-depth psychological description.In his gothic novels,pestilence,tuberculosis and madness are common and the protagonists always suffer from foregoing diseases.Based on the investigation of the relation between Poe’s life and illness and the social and cultural background of Poe’s time,the thesis aims to discuss the emergence and embodiment of illness narratives in Poe’s tales in order to explore the aesthetic values and cultural connotations.
文摘Edgar Allan Poe is a writer who establishes a new school in the American history of literature.He firstly and consciously takes the short story as an independent literature style,advances his own composing theory of short stories and applies it to his composition of Gothic novels.He plays a great role in the contribution of the internal development of Gothic novels for he organically unified the moral exploration and psychological exploration,thoroughly displayed the conflict between the good and the evil as well as advanced the composing technique of Gothic novels to the extremely high artistic state.This paper holds that the Gothic technique is successfully applied in one of Edgar Allan Poe's famous short stories A Cask of Amontillado in three aspects: theme and plot,characterization and atmosphere,and its author reveals people's most deep-hidden inner world and exposes the ugliness of human's nature by way of the Gothic technique and the special effects of terror.
