Gothicism in Edgar Allan Poes Short Stories 埃德加·爱伦·坡短篇小 说中的哥特风格.docVIP

Gothicism in Edgar Allan Poes Short Stories 埃德加?愛伦?坡短篇小说中的哥特风格 Abstract This paper is devoted to the condensed study of Gothicism in Poes four short classics, — The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat, The fit and the Pendulum, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Despite Poes seemingly inheritance from some literary forebears, his contriburion and innovation for the literary subgenre is profound and significant. The origin term of Gothic can be traced back to Goth, the notorious barbarous people of an old Germanic tribe. Gothicism develops gradually to indicate a grotesque style in architecture prevailing in the Middle Ages of Europe and later it is used in literature to convey the idea of Dark Romanticism that is excluded by the Ciassidsts from the mainstream of the literatus, Gothic literature starts from the eighteenth century in England, and gradually forms a special school in literary world. Among the numerous celebrated Gothic classics, Edgar Allan Poes fiction remains the most grotesque and unique. Compared to the other Gothic writers, Poe deepens the connotation of Gothic by exploring the themes of death, guilt, revenge, incest and morbid psyche as well as the supernatural mystery in these tales. Poe intends to psychologize the Gothic and has commenced to modify the traditional Gothic relationship, in which the direction of horrifying averts from outside to inside, from setting to self. The character are more likely creative originator of the terrifying rather than passive victims or witnesses of their appalling plight, while the circumstances are merely the products of their imaginative mind. It is with Poe that the old Gemian Gothic is finally brought into the contemporary setting. Darker and gloomier than the eighteenth century Gothic, Poes performance for novelty in composition for the theme of Death achieves the uniqueness of his Gothic stories and the sole effect of terror that comes not from Germany, but from the soul. Key words: Gothicism Theme of