摘要：

史蒂芬•金（1947—）是一位作品多产、屡获奖项的美国畅销书作家，他的作品已被译为三十多种语言，发行到世界三十多个国家，是多部电影的剧本。截止到2013年，他已出版七十多本书籍和数百篇短篇小说，在美国出版史上创造了奇迹。
史蒂芬•金的作品充分体现了后现代美艺术中所包含的哥特式传统。文学评论家的狂热与空前的读者数量以及大众传媒的关注度相媲美。这些批评家从宏观或从微观的不同角度对金的每部作品进行了评价和分析。本文尝试以主题分析为主线，从新哥特识别特征为切入点，以哥特传统为对照，对《肖申克的救赎》所描述的新哥特世界展开讨论。

关键词：新哥特；史蒂芬•金；《肖申克的救赎》

Abstract:
 
Stephen King (1947-) is a fruitful writer for best seller books. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages, published in thirty countries and have been the libretto for more than seventy films. By the year of 2013, Stephen King had published seventy books and hundreds of short stories, which made him creating the miracle of American publishing history.
Stephen King’s works fully reflects the postmodern art of beauty contained in the Gothic tradition. The unparalleled levels of media attention and readership have been comparable with critical enthusiasm. These critics evaluate and judge each of Stephen’s work in micro and macro perspectives. In Shawshank’s Redemption, from new Gothic angle, King showed the readers the hero Andy’s miraculous fugitive and especially the spirit of perseverance and patience. It is necessary to make a thorough investigation and study on Shawshank’s Redemption to learn how the ample expression of the originality of new Gothic in Shawshank’s Redemption gives readers a new insight into contemporary American society and culture. However, critics did not do so. Therefore, it is the author’s intention in this thesis to explore the themes from the angle of new Gothic and to discuss the new Gothic world unfolded in Shawshank’s Redemption in comparison with Gothic tradition. 

Key words: Neo-gothic; Stephen King;  Shawshank’s Redemption