Negative Adjcetives in the Fall of the House of Usher
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Negative Adjectives in The Fall of the House of Usher
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Abstract: Edgar Allan Poe as the practitioner of short stories argues the preconcieved unity in this kind of literary form should be realized by the way of every detailed desciption, even each word. The Fall of the House of Usher which is intepreted by the previous scholars in the aspects of word repetition, syntatic arrangement, text structure and so on, will be analyzed in this article from the lexical level, mainly from the negative adjectives which emerge frequently in this short story in order to explore their function and reveal the effect of art anticipated and pre-established by the author.
Key words：negative adjectives; function; effect
摘要：爱伦坡作为短篇小说的实践者认为在“在这种文学形式里，每一描写细节，甚至一字一句都应收到统一得效果，一个预想的效果”。《厄舍屋的倒塌》一文是其短篇小说中时被用作文学批评频率最高的作品之一，前人多从文中的词语重复、句法安排以及行文结构方面入手，分析其语言特色。本文将从词汇层面，主要是文中频繁使用的否定形容词的角度，具体分析形容词在文中发挥的作用，以及达到的艺术效果。
关键词：否定形容词；作用；效果
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), as a pioneer of the detective story, a founder of science, a master of horror and mystery (Cao, 2009), has suffered a life of misery and poverty but has the unparalleled talent in the American even the world literature establishment.. Although poverty remained in his physical condition nearly throughout the life span, Poe has managed to contribute the literary works such as short fictions Liguria(1838), William Wilson: A Tale (1839), The Black Cat (1843), The Cask of Amontillado(1846), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym(1838), The Murders in the Rue Morgue(1843) and the poem The Raven(1845), To Helen(1845), Annabel Lee (1849) and so on. Among these published in 1839 and reprinted in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) The Fall of the House of Usher is considered ad one of the most representative Gothic short fictions2 (Sheng, 1994) and the most frequently reprinted and most repeatedly analyzed work of short story. And it also could be regarded as a very appropriate example to put his theory...
Lee
Abstract: Edgar Allan Poe as the practitioner of short stories argues the preconcieved unity in this kind of literary form should be realized by the way of every detailed desciption, even each word. The Fall of the House of Usher which is intepreted by the previous scholars in the aspects of word repetition, syntatic arrangement, text structure and so on, will be analyzed in this article from the lexical level, mainly from the negative adjectives which emerge frequently in this short story in order to explore their function and reveal the effect of art anticipated and pre-established by the author.
Key words：negative adjectives; function; effect
摘要：爱伦坡作为短篇小说的实践者认为在“在这种文学形式里，每一描写细节，甚至一字一句都应收到统一得效果，一个预想的效果”。《厄舍屋的倒塌》一文是其短篇小说中时被用作文学批评频率最高的作品之一，前人多从文中的词语重复、句法安排以及行文结构方面入手，分析其语言特色。本文将从词汇层面，主要是文中频繁使用的否定形容词的角度，具体分析形容词在文中发挥的作用，以及达到的艺术效果。
关键词：否定形容词；作用；效果
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), as a pioneer of the detective story, a founder of science, a master of horror and mystery (Cao, 2009), has suffered a life of misery and poverty but has the unparalleled talent in the American even the world literature establishment.. Although poverty remained in his physical condition nearly throughout the life span, Poe has managed to contribute the literary works such as short fictions Liguria(1838), William Wilson: A Tale (1839), The Black Cat (1843), The Cask of Amontillado(1846), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym(1838), The Murders in the Rue Morgue(1843) and the poem The Raven(1845), To Helen(1845), Annabel Lee (1849) and so on. Among these published in 1839 and reprinted in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) The Fall of the House of Usher is considered ad one of the most representative Gothic short fictions2 (Sheng, 1994) and the most frequently reprinted and most repeatedly analyzed work of short story. And it also could be regarded as a very appropriate example to put his theory...