從認知詩學的角度分析詩人愛倫坡的內心世界

1、 分 類 號： H0 密 級： 無 學校代碼：10414 學 號：2009010641 碩士研究生學位論文 士研究生學位論文 The Inner World of a Poet: A Study of E·A·Poe from the Perspective of Cognitive Poet

2、ics 從認知詩學的角度分析 從認知詩學的角度分析詩人愛倫坡的 詩人愛倫坡的內心世界 內心世界 商滔 院 所：外國語學院 導師姓名：章少泉 學科專業(yè)：英語語言文學 研究方向：英美文學 二○一二 年 四 月I Abstract Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a literary talent of the nineteenth century, represents

3、a new area in novels and poems in American literature. Many researchers have more interests in his novels than his poems. So, there leaves a gap in the study of his poems, and especially remains under-explored inner worl

4、d as reflected in his poems. This thesis analyzes Poe’s poetry of three different periods from the perspective of cognitive poetics to explore his inner world. Cognitive poetics combines the literary study with linguist

5、ics, psychology and cognitive science, and holds that the literary works root in the most basic and general cognitive activities and life experiences. Therefore, the reading and analyzing of the literary works can take t

6、he general linguistic cognition and cognitive mechanism for reference. In other words, employing the related theories of cognitive poetics to analyze the poetry can better find out the poet’s inner world hidden in his po

7、ems. There are four chapters in this thesis. The first chapter is about Poe’s life and his literary influence as well as a literature review of studies on his poetry, and then proposes the purpose and methodology of thi

8、s thesis. The second chapter is about cognitive poetics as a literary approach. The third chapter tries to integrate the related theories of cognitive poetics into the image schema theory in order to decode the poet’s in

9、ner world in the poetry. The fourth chapter investigates the relevancy between mental spaces and the poet’s inner world, and that between fantasy worlds and the poet’s inner world. Poe’s poetry of three different period

10、s writes an image schema of his inner world whose trajector (affection) is in the state of conceiving and being conceived. This dynamical process witnesses the perfect development of the trajector on the road built by di