Horror and beauty in Poe’s horror novels (英语论文).docVIP

Horror and beauty in Poe’s horror novels 恐怖与美丽——浅谈爱伦坡的恐怖小说 【关键词】恐怖??美丽??爱伦.坡??恐怖小说 1. IntroductionIn American literature history, Edgar Allan Poe was a writer who had a unique status, but was beyond the mainstream of American literature. Poe was a writer brimming with talent, an outstanding poetic and critic, his short stories made a great contribution to America literature. During Poe’s life, he made more than 70 short stories, and created a precedent for reasoning novels. And horror novels were thought to be Poe’s most important works. So Poe was thought to be the greatest writer on horror novels. His horror novels included The Masque of the Red Death, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia, The Cast of Amontillado and so on. However, at that time, people didn’t attach importance to Poe’s works. Because whether these novels’ styles or contents were strange to readers—they often had a close relationship with death, horror, mystery, and the heavyhearted, weird flavor made people feel worried so that suspect his works.Poe’s horror novels inherited 18-century Gothic novels’ tradition, from which absorb horror artistic conception: ghostly castle which was full of declining, head atmosphere, deserted, de pressed countries, and strange, eccentric people. And at that time the horror novels, which were published in popular magazine Bulikwud, took a lot influence on Edgar Alan Poe, Poe’s most horror novels took first-person narrate, and most stories happened in foreign countries. However, Poe wasn’t satisfied with the present condition. While profitably sharing the experience of tradition, Poe blazed a trail and development on horror novels—Poe began to put psychology into horror novels. In 1838, the publishment of Poe’s most famous horror novel—The Fall of the House of Usher., symbolized Poe had understood psychology of horror deeply. Poe’s values were refund and accepted after he died; He had a good reputation in France and Russia all the time. On