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On the Alienation of Allan Poe’s Horror Novels [论爱伦•坡恐怖小说的异化主题], Master thesis, Comparative Literature and World Literature, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China 2018 [application of Fromm's theories to art].

  • 埃德加•爱伦•坡作为十九世纪的美国浪漫主义作家,在继承哥特传统的基础上,形成独特的创作风格。小说内容多表现积极乐观表象下的暗涌,在揭示人类灵魂阴暗面的同时,蕴含了作家对人类生存境况和人性本质的思索。作家注重挖掘作品中叙述者和人物的内心世界,感受时代引起的孤独与异化,并将思考融入到文学创作中。尽管他的创作理念并未受到同时代作家的认可,但随着时间的推移,爱伦•坡却对二十世纪欧美现代派产生深刻影响。他作品中所体现的超前现代意识和对人类命运的关注,也为其著作赢得经久不衰的研究魅力。本文主要运用弗洛姆的异化理论,对爱伦•坡的恐怖小说进行分析。绪论主要针对爱伦•坡国内外研究状况进行大致梳理,并介绍异化概念的来源和发展,指出从异化角度研究作品的必要性。论文主体分三章展开论述:首先整合异化理论的相关观点,具体分析恐怖小说中关于人对自我的异化、人与人关系的异化和社会对人的异化的呈现;第二章从时空维度、叙述视角、叙述对象层面入手,剖析爱伦•坡笔下的异化世界;最后一章,结合作家生活经历和社会背景,分析异化主题产生的原因,并通过进一步对其作品人物生存状态的探讨,指出作家希望通过人性回归和精神重生来抗拒异化的愿景,力求对爱伦•坡恐怖小说的异化主题有更深刻理解。
  • As an American romantic writer in the nineteenth century, Edgar Allan Poe has formed a unique style of creation on the basis of inheriting the Gothic tradition. Generally, the content of his novels focus on the gloomy faces hidden behind the positive and optimistic appearances. While revealing the dark side of the humanity, Poe’s novels show the writer’s thinking about the human existence and the nature of human. Also, Poe pays much attention to exploring the inner world of the narrator and characters, touching the loneliness and alienation caused by the times, and integrating his reflections into literary creation. Although his creative ideas were not recognized by the contemporaries, Allan Poe had a profound influence on the European and American modernists in the twentieth century over time. The farsighted modern consciousness and concerns for the destiny of mankind make Allan Poe’s novels extraordinary and attract long-standing studies. By applying Erich Fromm’s alienation theory, this thesis analyzes Allen Poe’s horror novels. The introduction mainly gives a general review of the research status of Allan Poe at home and abroad, introduces the origin and development of the concept of alienation, and then points out the necessity of studying Poe’s novels from the perspective of alienation. The main part of this thesis is divided into three chapters. First, it integrates the relevant viewpoints of alienation theory and specifically analyzes three kinds of human alienations in Poe’s horror novels, including the alienation of oneself, of others and of society. In the second chapter, Allan Poe’s alienated world described in his horror novels is analyzed from the perspective of time and space, narrative point of view and narrative objects. The last chapter explains the causes of alienation theme on the basis of Poe’s life experience and social background. Furthermore, through a detailed interpretation of alienation ideas in horror novels, Poe’s attitude toward alienated characters is explored. The purpose is to have a comprehensive and profound understanding of the theme of alienation in Allan Poe’s novels. [Author’s translation]

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Author:Liulin Ma
Document Type:Dissertations
Language:Chinese
Year of first Publication:2018
Release Date:2019/03/04
Format:no download and copy possible
IdNo:Ma_Liulin_2018
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Dissertations / Dissertationen
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Dissertations / Dissertationen
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