《贝蕾妮丝》的格式塔美学解读_英语论文

A Gestalt Interpretation of“Berenice”

摘要

在爱伦·坡的众多短篇小说中有一主题是被反复提及的——“美女之死”，如短篇小说《莱吉亚》、《贝蕾妮丝》、《厄舍屋的倒塌》等。格式塔心理学美学是格式塔心理学与文艺学相结合，“主张通过心理学研究成果来把握美学问题”。本文意在通过对《贝蕾妮丝》进行探讨，并结合格式塔心理原理和中外现有研究成果，对该作品的叙述手法和格式塔美学进行对照并解析。通过上述探讨，以期达到对小说中的叙述方法进行较为深入的研究和了解。

关键词  爱伦·坡  “美女之死”  《贝蕾妮丝》  格式塔心理美学   

Abstract

One subject, “Death of beauty”, is always brought up in most of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, such as “Ligeia”, “Berenice”, and “The Fall of The House of Usher”. Gestalt aesthetics combines gestalt psychology and the theory of literature, which focuses on studying the aesthetic issues with psychological research results. This paper is intended to make comparative analysis on the narrative methods used in “Berenice” and gestalt aesthetics through discussion about this work and the combination of the current research results of gestalt aesthetics both at home and abroad, in the hope of achieving further study and understanding on the narrative methods in the stories through the discussion.

Keywords:  Edgar Allan Poe;  Death of beauty;  “Berenice”;  Gestalt aesthetics

Contents

1  Introduction 1

1.1  Poe’ s Life 1

1.2  Gestalt Aesthetics 2

1.3  “Berenice” 3

2  Literature Review 4

2.1  Research of “Death of Beauty” 4

2.2  Research of “Berenice” 4

2.3  Research of Gestalt Aesthetics 5

3  Connection Between “Berenice” and Gestalt Aesthetics 8

3.1  Heterogeneous Isomorphism 8

3.2  Law of Closure 9

Conclusion 12

Acknowledgements 13

References 14