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1、GothicisminEdgarAllanPoe'sShortStories埃德加•愛伦•坡短篇小说中的哥特风格AbstractThispaperisdevotedtothecondensedstudyofGothicisminPoe'sfourshortclassics,—"TheMasqueoftheRedDeath","TheBlackCat","ThefitandthePendulum",and"TheFalloftheHouseofUsher".DespitePoe'sseeminglyinheritancefromsomelitera
2、ryforebears,hiscontriburionandinnovationfortheliterarysubgenreisprofoundandsignificant.Theorigintermof"Gothic"canbetracedbackto"Goth",thenotoriousbarbarouspeopleofanoldGermanictribe."Gothicism"developsgraduallytoindicateagrotesquestyleinarchitectureprevailingintheMiddleAgesof
3、Europeandlateritisusedinliteraturetoconveytheideaof"DarkRomanticism"thatisexcludedbytheCiassidstsfromthemainstreamoftheliteratus,GothicliteraturestartsfromtheeighteenthcenturyinEngland,andgraduallyformsaspecialschoolinliteraryworld.AmongthenumerouscelebratedGothicclassics,Edg
4、arAllanPoe'sfictionremainsthemostgrotesqueandunique.ComparedtotheotherGothicwriters,PoedeepenstheconnotationofGothicbyexploringthethemesofdeath,guilt,revenge,incestandmorbidpsycheaswellasthesupernaturalmysteryinthesetales.PoeintendstopsychologizetheGothicandhascommencedtomodi
5、fythetraditionalGothicrelationship,inwhichthedirectionofhorrifyingavertsfromoutsidetoinside,fromsettingtoself.Thecharacteraremorelikelycreativeoriginatoroftheterrifyingratherthanpassivevictimsorwitnessesoftheirappallingplight,whilethecircumstancesaremerelytheproductsoftheirim
6、aginativemind.ItiswithPoethattheold"Gemian"Gothicisfinallybroughtintothecontemporarysetting.DarkerandgloomierthantheeighteenthcenturyGothic,Poe'sperformancefornoveltyincompositionforthethemeofDeathachievestheuniquenessofhisGothicstoriesandthesoleeffectofterrorthatcomesnotfrom
7、Germany,butfromthesoul.Keywords:GothicismThemeofDeathGothicWritingTechniqueGothicisminEdgarAllanPoe'sShortStoriesIntroductionGothicismis,inessence,aneerierandgrotesquestyleofarchitectureemergingfromtheMiddleAgesinEurope,whichisdisgustedandscornedbytheso-calledrationalclassici
8、sts.Accordingtoon-linedictionary,itisdefinedas"theuseorimitationofGo
