| Allen Poe is an important American poet and author of Romanticism, a distinguished literature theoretician and critics. He created detective stories, enriched the subjects of writing and broadened the fields of description. Thus Poe is considered the originator of western detective stories. This thesis is to analyze the pioneering status of his detective stories, trace its causes, and comment on its artistic features shown in his stories in order to have a further understanding of the essence of his writing. I. The literal study on Allen Poe's detective storiesa. The construction of classic mode "Detective story", as the name shows, is the story in which logical thinking is used to deduce and analyze the case. "The Murders in Rue Morgue", written by Allen Poe, the first real detective story in the history of the world's literature, was published by in 1841. And "The Mystery of Marie Roget", "The Purloined Letter", "The Golden Bug" published afterwards constructed the classic model for the detective stories afterwards. First, the relationship between people, the central figure should have some characters of superman, and it is often set off by the intelligence of the surrounding people. Secondly, there should be the specific model: it first makes the environment, and make the case into disorder, and through the logic analysis of the central figure, the problem is solved. He also constructed the soul of detective stories — logic deduction.b. The analysis on the causes of his creationThe author tries to analyze the causes of the pioneering status of Allen Poe's detective stories in terms of psychological analysis and rational creation. First, the miserable childhood and his unfortunate life is the necessary condition for his producing the deductive stories, which not only gave him the character of imagination, but also the desire to struggle against oppression and master the world through his writings. Secondly, Allen Poe believed that writing is the thinking process when one can automatically manipulate one's reason to write his works. The method needed in the deductive novels and the creation of Allen Poe are coincided, thus provide the necessary condition for the formation of the pioneering status.II. The artist study on Allen Poe's detective storiesSince Allen Poe has the unique artistic theory and aesthetic pursuit, the author tries to make a study from two aspects of the concrete aesthetes and the many-faceted artistic characteristics. 1.The voluntary pursuing for aesthetics a.The construction of the literal thinking Allen Poe had been persisting on the view of reason and practiced in his deductive writing. For example, he highly praised short stories, and intentionally used all kinds of elements to arrange the novel. The author will take "The Mystery of Marie Roget" as an example to show how Allen Poe arranged the plot structure of the whole story with his reason thinking, and analyze its double structure, including the techniques of "discover" and "converse". b. The practice of effectsEffects are the only aim he is pursuing in the works of Allen Poe's. When it exerts in the detective stories, it is to exhibit the great power of reason thinking, and to control the outer world through thorough analysis, thus bring the exciting power. He used the "cover-up" plot to make the best exhibition of thinking deductive effects. In addition, as Allen Poe was intended the scientific and subjective deductive effects in his novels, the former exaggerations for the illusory environment are abandoned. The author placed the main points on the specific case, specific situation and the specific characters, thus had achieved successful effects. 2.The many-faceted artist characteristicsAllen Poe appreciated the psychological study and analysis, and his novels can be seen as the examples of psychological analysis and the streams of consciousness and the transposition thinking began to show their existence.The author further studies two shortcomings of Allen P...
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