研究爱伦坡的论文

写哥特小说中的犯罪行为及其表达的内涵吧。

"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".[1] In both, a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable, but eventually breaks down and reveals himself, impelled by a nagging reminder of his guilt. The story is presented as a first-person narrative using an unreliable narrator. The narrator tells us that from an early age he has loved animals. He and his wife have many pets, including a large black cat named Pluto. This cat is especially fond of the narrator and vice versa. Their mutual friendship lasts for several years, until the narrator becomes an alcoholic. One night, after coming home intoxicated, he believes the cat is avoiding him. When he tries to seize it, the panicked cat bites the narrator, and in a fit of rage, he seizes the animal, pulls a pen-knife from his pocket, and deliberately gouges out the cat's eye.From that moment onward, the cat flees in terror at his master's approach. At first, the narrator is remorseful and regrets his cruelty. "But this feeling soon gave place to irritation. And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of PERVERSENESS." He takes the cat out in the garden one morning and hangs it from a tree, where it dies. That very night, his house mysteriously catches on fire forcing the narrator, his wife and their servant to flee.The next day, the narrator returns to the ruins of his home to find, imprinted on the single wall that survived the fire, the figure of a gigantic cat, hanging by its neck from a rope.At first, this image terrifies the narrator, but gradually he determines a logical explanation for it, that someone outside had thrown the dead cat into the bedroom to wake him up during the fire, and begins to miss Pluto. Some time later, he finds a similar cat in a tavern. It is the same size and color as the original and is even missing an eye. The only difference is a large white patch on the animal's chest. The narrator takes it home, but soon begins to loathe, even fear the creature. After a time, the white patch of fur begins to take shape and, to the narrator, forms the shape of the gallows.Then, one day when the narrator and his wife are visiting the cellar in their new home, the cat gets under its master's feet and nearly trips him down the stairs. In a fury, the man grabs an axe and tries to kill the cat but is stopped by his wife. Enraged, he kills her with the axe instead. To conceal her body he removes bricks from a protrusion in the wall, places her body there, and repairs the hole. When the police came to investigate, they find nothing and the narrator goes free. The cat, which he intended to kill as well, has gone missing.On the last day of the investigation, the narrator accompanies the police into the cellar. There, completely confident in his own safety, the narrator comments on the sturdiness of the building and raps upon the wall he had built around his wife's body. A wailing sound fills the room. The alarmed police tear down the wall and find the wife's corpse, and on her head, to the horror of the narrator, is the screeching black cat. As he words it: "I had walled the monster up within the tomb!" Like the narrator in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator of "The Black Cat" has questionable sanity. Near the beginning of the tale, the narrator says he would be "mad indeed" if he should expect a reader to believe the story, implying that he has already been accused of madness.[2]One of Poe's darkest tales, "The Black Cat" includes his strongest denouncement of alcohol. The narrator's perverse actions are brought on by his alcoholism, a "disease" and "fiend" which also destroys his personality.[3] The use of the black cat evokes various superstitions, including the idea voiced by the narrator's wife that they are all witches in disguise. The titular cat is named Pluto after the Roman god of the Underworld. Publication history"The Black Cat" was first published in the August 19, 1843 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. At the time, the publication was using the temporary title United States Saturday Post.[4] Readers immediately responded favorably to the story, spawning parodies including Thomas Dunn English's "The Ghost of the Grey Tadpole".[5][edit] Adaptations [edit] In film "The Black Cat" was adapted into a film starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in 1934 and another with Lugosi and Basil Rathbone in 1941, although neither version bears much resemblance to the original story.[5] Many other adaptations exist but the most faithful to the original is the middle segment of Roger Corman's trilogy film Tales of Terror in 1962.[5] Although the overall film was cast with Vincent Price as the lead, in this segment, he was in a supporting role with Peter Lorre as the main character. The 1934 film Maniac also loosely adapts the story. This version follows a former vaudeville actor who kills a doctor and takes the doctor's place to hide his crime. "The Black Cat" was also adapted into a film of the same name by Italian horror director Lucio Fulci in 1981. Film director Dario Argento presented his own loose adaptation of the story in the 1990 anthology film Two Evil Eyes.[edit] In television "The Black Cat" is the eleventh episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. The plot essentially retells the short story in a semi-autobiographical manner, with Poe himself undergoing a series of events involving a black cat which he used to inspire the story of the same name.[edit] Recordings In 1997, a compilation of Poe's work was released on a double CD entitled Closed on Account of Rabies, with various celebrities lending their voices to the tales. The Black Cat was read by avant-garde performer Diamanda Galás.[edit] References in literary works In 1970, Czech writer Ludvík Vaculík made many references to "A Descent into the Maelstr�0�2m" as well as "The Black Cat" in his novel The Guinea Pigs.[edit] References in art In 1910-11 Futurist artist Gino Severini painted "The Black Cat" in direct reference to Poe's short story. An illustration and description can be found at this site

推荐你看 《哥特之魂》，您绝对会受益匪浅的，相信我。。。我也正在写哥特的论文，虽然是 in English的><

嗯，可能需要改成 爱伦·坡作品的人文关怀？NOWIS同学……别人没说要写影视作品，你在干什么啊没搞错人吧。= =对了，提问者同学，怀疑你是不是看了这篇：里面才提到人文关怀。人文关怀这种词我似乎在 西方文论里少有见。不过中国人所言人文即西方所谓人本。人性、人之内心、人之内在，破除被集体和形式束缚的个性特征。你的意思是 坡的作品关注人的内心吧？（注意，在这里你不能单通过一篇作品分析坡本答的人文关怀，即使是加上他的生平、他的全部作品也是不容易分析的，因为暂时还没有能定论坡的全部创作目的，只一般只能看作品本身的表达，也就是说，你即然后面也提到是“坡的作品的人文关注”，标题在使用的时候也可用这种格式)。即使是关注内心、心理方面的，那就可以在标题里使用 心、心灵、灵魂这种词语。但正向经常 提到的人文关怀，更多的包容着 理解、包含、善意的意味。“人文的核心是‘人’，以人为本，关心人，爱护人，尊重人。这就是我们常常说的人类关怀、生命关怀。人是衡量一切的尺度，在人世间的各种权利，只有人权是天赋的，生来具有的，不可剥夺，也不可代替的。承认人的价值，尊重人的个人利益，包括物质的利益和精神的利益。”【袁正光】【首先, 无需否认, 在坡的看似荒诞的故事背后, 拥有着深刻的人文关怀。因为恐怖也是人类所拥有的共同经验。不幸的人生、对时代的感知, 都使坡体验到了这种恐惧, 意识到了人类精神存在着一种恐怖的极端状态。他之展示心灵的恐怖就是对人的孤独、绝望和无奈的生存困境的集中展现, 因而也是对人类的悲怜和关怀的表现。世纪之交的中国, 人们越来越多地品尝到了恐惧的心理体验。铁饭碗的打破, 生存压力的增大, 生态环境的恶化,未来的不可知等等, 无一不让人感到恐惧、紧张、焦虑和不安。这种体验一旦与爱伦·坡作品中所凸现的心灵恐怖相碰撞, 便会在不知不觉中受到强烈感染, 激发起他们对经验过的同类情绪的回想与咀嚼, 进而产生一种因似曾相识而来的亲切感, 这就形成了作品的一种内在魅力; 另一方面, 当下的中国又是一个“市场尘埃”侵入并污染人们情感生活的时代。信仰的缺失, 社会生活节奏的加快等所带来的空虚、疲惫, 甚至是颓废绝望, 又导致了不少人对强刺激的追求。在这种精神状态中, 脱开尘世, 走进爱伦·坡式的恐怖小说世界, 对一部分中国人而言就格外具有吸引力。再加上根据市场“卖点”所进行的商业炒作⋯⋯所有这一切, 都给爱伦·坡在中国的重新传播和迅速发生影响提供了绝佳的机会和良好的条件。】【爱伦·坡与世纪之交的中国当代恐怖小说 胡克俭】所以：直面心灵的恐怖之美如何？不过好像已经有人用过了如“心灵的恐怖——解读爱伦·坡的恐怖小说”“来自心灵的恐怖—评爱伦 坡的《厄舍古屋的倒塌》的创作效果”“心灵的恐怖与忏悔_论爱伦_坡的_黑猫”等等。那么如果再文艺一些呢，比如“重拾心灵之境”之类。我觉得最好还是你自己想一个，认真思考一下要表达的主题，结果肯定会比较满意吧！