Edger Allan Poe課件

1、Edger Allan Poe(1809-1849)ua writer poet editor literary criticufirst writer of the detective storyuwriter of fictionua pioneer in poetic and fictional techniques1809 Edger Allan Poe was born in Boston.1810 His father David Poe Jr. died.1811 His mother Elizabeth Hopkins Poe died.Edger was taken into

2、 the home of a Richmond merchant John Allan.1815-1819 He attended Manor School at Stoke Newington1820-1825 He wrote several poems when he was a student.Later it becomes the setting for his story William Wilson1826-1827 Poe attended the University of Virginia,but was expelled for not paying his gambl

3、ing debts.Poe composed some tales,but little is known of his apprentice works.He joined soldier under assumed name,Edger A.Perry.1828-1829 He was promoted in the US army and got the position of Master Sergeant.1830 Poe entered West Point.He was dishonorably discharged next year for intentional negle

4、ct of his duties.1832-1833 Poe lived in Baltimore with his fathers sister Mrs.Maria Clemm and taught his sister .When he won a contest with his story Ms. Found in a Bottle,he got a job as an editor with the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond1836 Poe married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm

5、.1837 He quit his job of Messenger,partly because he felt his salary was too low.With his family he set out to try luck in New York and Philadelphia.1842 Virginia busted a blood vessel and died.1849 Poe died at the age of 40 in Baltimore.The cause of his death is undetermined.List of his works Poetr

6、y:u The Raven (1844) 烏鴉u Annabel Lee 安娜貝爾麗u The Sleeper 睡美人u A Dream Within a Dream 夢中夢u Israfel伊斯拉菲爾u The Bells 鐘u Sonnet To Science 十四行詩-致科學u To Helen 獻給海倫u The City in the Sea 海中的城市Short storiesu MS. Found in a Bottle (1833) 瓶中手稿 u Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque (1839) 荒誕奇異的故事u The Murd

7、ers in the Rue Morgue (1841) 毛格街血案u The Fall of the House of Usher 厄舍古屋的倒塌u The Cask of Amontillado 一桶白葡萄酒u Ligeia 麗姬婭u The Purloined Letter 竊信案u The Man of the Crowd 人群中的人u The Tell-Tale Heart 泄密的心u William Wilson 威廉.威爾遜u Black Cat 黑貓u The Imp of the Perverse變態(tài)的小鬼u The Gold Bug 金甲蟲u The Mystery of

8、Marie Roge瑪麗.羅熱疑案uThe Masque of the Red Death 紅色死亡的化妝舞會 Writing Style: Poes style is traditional. It is much too rational, too ordinary to reflect the peculiarity pkjlrti of his theme. He is good at generalizing. He is not easy to read. He lays stress on brevity and imagination. Poes Theories for th

9、e Short Story: a. The short story should be so brief as to be read at one sitting. b. The first sentence ought to help to bring out the “single effect” of the story. c. No word should be used which does not contribute to the work. d. A tale should reveal some logical truth, and should end with the l

10、ast sentence, leaving a sense of finality with the reader. Poes poetic theory a. The poem should be so brief as to be read at one sitting. b. The purpose of poetry lay in the creation of beauty and intensity of emotion rather than teaching of morality. a forerunner of pure poetry c. Poet should comb

11、ine music with poetry so as to provoke readers with a sense of beauty. d.The most efficient form of beauty which is able to undulate readers soul had to be the death, especially the death of a beautiful woman.So the key tone of Poes poetry was melancholy mlnkli使人悲傷的 and depressed.ufather of modern s

12、hort storyufather of detective storyufather of psychoanalytic criticismLiterary PositionEvaluation uPoe remained the most controversial and most misunderstood literary figure in the history of American literature.uEmerson dismissed him in three words “the jingle man” (打油詩人).Mark Twain declared his prose to be unreadable