摘要
爱伦·坡"为艺术而艺术"的创作思想虽然无法获得加缪等存在主义哲学家的认同,但其艺术创作的多维性使其影响远远超出了他所处的时代。《人群中的人》是爱伦·坡最具现代意识的作品,凸显了爱伦·坡对转型期人类社会精神危机的关注,开启了近现代荒诞叙事之先河。小说以隐喻式的城市书写揭示了现代社会生活的虚无荒诞,人与自然(社会)、他人、自我关系的异化,即异化的城市生活场景、虚无的个体身份认同与荒诞的个体生存意识。爱伦·坡对城市人群孤独、虚无的内心世界的描绘,对叙述者与追逐对象追踪动机的探寻,是对社会转型期城市化给游荡者(包括坡本人)带来的空虚与孤寂的真实写照。
Edgar Allan Poe＇s ＂Art for art＇s sake＂ was not accepted by some of the existentialist, particularly Camus. However, his multi-dimensional compositions have won him worldwide reputation as even more a part of the contemporary American literary scene than many of his more ＂nationalistic＂ peers. This paper aims at probing into Poe＇ s awareness of absurdity in his urban writing with the case study of The Man in the Crowd, analyzing his concern on people＇ s spiritual crisis and exposure of the nihility and absurdity of modern society, and the alienation and dissimilation of social relationships in the transitional period via metaphoric depiction of solitary and dissimilated urban landscape, awkward predicament for individual belongingness and human existence. Poe＇ s delineation of the solitary, ahenated and nihilistic inner world of urban citizens, and his exploration of the motivation for the pursuit of the narrator as well as the pursuant, has revealed the nihility and alienation of urban Flaneurs （including himself）. Hence, the paper safely draws the conclusion that Edgar Allan Poe initiated absurd narrative which is unclaimed in 19^th century American romantic literature.
出处
《外国语文》
北大核心
2016年第1期30-35,共6页
Foreign Languages and Literature
基金
中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助基础学科重点研究项目"19世纪美国哥特小说民族叙事研究"(2014-Ib-081)阶段性成果
关键词
《人群中的人》
城市书写
异化
虚无
荒诞
The Man in the Crowd
urban writing
alienation
nihility
absurdity
