从《毛格街血案》分析爱伦▪坡作品中悬疑气氛的营造

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Abstract: Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, critic, editor, novelist, and essayist，has achieved great success in literature. Especially in the field of short stories, he is father of the detective story and sets the pattern of western detective stories. One feature of his works is the description of supernatural terror, mystery, cruelty and fatalism. The story’s plot is full of dramatic natures. He lays stress on the description of details and the atmosphere and the effect of the story. When it comes to his detective stories, he is an artist of creating the suspense atmosphere. This paper based on The Murders in the Rue Morgue which is considered as the world first detective story, summarized two main points, regulation and contrast. The paper attempts to analyze the story from the aspects of plot, language and identifies how they were used by Poe to structure the story in the hope that it might conductive to the reading and understanding of Poe’s detective stories for it provides the clue for the readers. Through the analysis, the paper reveals that Poe sets the suspense atmosphere through three points, irregular plot，irregularity of language and the contrast of the main characters. The conclusion part brings the whole thesis to an end and points out how the suspense atmosphere is set and explores that all the elements serve for the creation of suspense atmosphere.
Key Words: Allan Poe; detective story; suspense atmosphere; Dupin
 
摘  要：埃德加▪爱伦▪坡在小说，诗歌，评论，出版，随笔等领域都卓有成就，他的短篇故事尤为人称道。他是侦探小说的鼻祖并设立了西方侦探小说的模版。他作品的有鲜明特征，对超自然的惊恐，神秘，残忍，以及宿命论。他写的故事情节充满戏剧性并注重细节描述，气氛营造以及故事效果。当谈及他的侦探故事时，他是当之无愧的悬疑气氛制造大师。本论文以他的《毛格街血案》为例，解构悬疑气氛营造的手法，分析得出反常和对比两大手法在文章中的运用，通过其在语言，情节，人物性格上的体现加深悬疑气氛。本文旨在阐释如何营造悬疑气氛并希望对能更好感受爱伦.坡文章的出彩之处和精妙布局有所裨益。
关键词： 爱伦.坡；侦探小说；悬疑气氛；杜宾

CONTENTS
 

Introduction 1
1. Background and Literature Review of Edgar Allan Poe…………...1
1.1 Edger Allan Poe's detective stories……………………….………….….……….1
  1.2 The Literature Review of Edgar Allan Poe…………….………...…...…………1
2. Irregular Points………………………………………………………..3
2.1 Irregular Introduction………….………………...…………………………...…..3
2.2 Grotesque Case…………………..……..…………………………………….….6
2.3 Irregularity of Language ……….……………………………………………..…7
3. The Contrast of the Main Characters ………………..……..…..….10
3.1 Dupin vs Narrator……………………………………………..………...……10 3.2 Dupin vs the Police……………………………………………..……………..11
4.Conclusion….....……………………………………………………....11
Bibliography..…………………………………………………..…...…..18

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