Edgar Allan POE爱伦坡的写作艺术特色

山西师范大学现代文理学院本科毕业论文

爱伦﹒坡恐怖小说的写作艺术特色

姓名：王丽霞

系别：外语

专业：英语

班级：1103

学号：1190030315

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内容摘要：

爱伦坡的恐怖小说因深刻的颓废之美，怪异，忧郁而闻名。本文通过分析埃德加·爱伦·坡最具代表性的恐怖小说,可以探知作者的心灵式恐怖。埃德加·爱伦·坡的小说明显继承了传统哥特文学。随着对哥特式文学独创性的继承，创作出属于他的独一无二的恐怖小说。同时，在他恐怖小说中呈现出的写作特色包括象征手法，渲染手法，第一人称叙事角度。运用心理分析法分析神秘，隐晦的象征手法，理解其具体意义和它是如何激发读者的想象力，使读者在想象中体验恐惧的魅力。对色彩，环境的渲染使得恐怖故事具有阴暗，恐怖的画面感。第一人称的叙事角度，使得故事变得更加逼真，贴近读者，让读者直面血淋淋的场景。这些手法的应用，顺利解决了恐怖小说创作中推进情节和制造恐怖感的难题。对爱伦·坡恐怖小说写作特色的分析会帮助读者更好地理解他的书和思想。

关键词：爱伦坡恐怖小说写作艺术特色

Abstract

Edgar Allan Poe’s horrible fictions are well-known for a profound beauty of decadence, grotesque and gloom. In this paper, through analyzing the most representative American writer Edgar Allan Poe’s horror fictions, we can touch the writer’s uncanny world. Edgar Allan P oe’s fiction s obviously inherit from the traditional Gothic literature. Poe, with his ingenious inheritance from Gothicism, created a unique style for his horrible tales. At the same time, his writing characteristics including symbolism, rendering technique and the first person visual angel are presented in most of his horrible stories. Using the psychological analysis to analyze the mysterious and obscure symbolism, to understand its specific meaning, and how to arouse the readers' imagination, which makes readers experience the glamour of the fear. Rendering of the colors, environment makes the horror stories with dark, terror sense of pictures. First-person narrative point of view makes the story become more realistic and close to the reader confronted the bloody scene. Application of these techniques successfully solved the problem of advancing the plot and producing terror feelings in the creation of horror fiction. Analyzing Poe ’ s writing artistic features will certainly help people to understand his book and thoughts.

Key words :Edgar Allan Poe horror fictions writing artistic characteristics

Content

I. Introduction (1)

II. Gothic Features (2)

A. The Definition of the Term “Gothic” (2)

a. The character’s horror actions……………………………………….3.

b. The scene settings (3)

c. The theme of death (3)

B. The Creation of the Gothic Literature……………………………….5. III. Symbolism

A. The Definition of Symbolism (5)

a. Scene images (6)

b. Color images (6)

c. Animals images (7)

B. Analysis Symbol From Psychology (7)

a. From Sigmund Freud’s Theory………………………………………....7.

b. From Aristotle’s Theory (9)

IV. Rendering Technique

A. The Specific Application of Rendering Technique (9)

Ｖ．Writing From First Person

Ａ.The specific Application of First Person (10)

VI. Conclusion (11)

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