Chronology Entry
Year
1925
Text
Chen, Weimo. Edgar Allan Poe's fiction. In : Special issue of the Sunken Bell Society = Chen zhong she [ID D34942].
This review differs from early criticism in its conscientious study of all Poe's tales. It is divided into four parts : the development of critical opinion about Poe; Poe's mysticism and terror ; Poe's aesthetic principles; and Poe's influence abroad. According to Chen, Poe's art is 'conscious art', and 'his works are also a record of his own experience', which is nothing like the experience of ordinary people, but 'the extraordinary experience of horror and mystery'. Chen believes that Poe builds up 'a world of his own', in which his imagination was always lingering on death and tombs and the supernatural. On Poe's aesthetic views Chen Wei-mo writes that 'Poe is in pursuit of beauty', and his beauty is inseparable from strangeness on proportion. As a result, Chen believes one can hardly find anything resembling real life, except in 'X-ing a Paragrab' and a few others, in which there is a faint satire of reality. Likewise, 'most of the characters in Poe's tales are illusory'.
This review differs from early criticism in its conscientious study of all Poe's tales. It is divided into four parts : the development of critical opinion about Poe; Poe's mysticism and terror ; Poe's aesthetic principles; and Poe's influence abroad. According to Chen, Poe's art is 'conscious art', and 'his works are also a record of his own experience', which is nothing like the experience of ordinary people, but 'the extraordinary experience of horror and mystery'. Chen believes that Poe builds up 'a world of his own', in which his imagination was always lingering on death and tombs and the supernatural. On Poe's aesthetic views Chen Wei-mo writes that 'Poe is in pursuit of beauty', and his beauty is inseparable from strangeness on proportion. As a result, Chen believes one can hardly find anything resembling real life, except in 'X-ing a Paragrab' and a few others, in which there is a faint satire of reality. Likewise, 'most of the characters in Poe's tales are illusory'.
Mentioned People (1)
Poe, Edgar Allan
(Boston, Mass. 1809-1849 Baltimore, Md.) : Schriftsteller, Dichter
Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America
Documents (1)
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| 1 | 1999 | Sheng, Ning ; Stauffer, Donald Barlow. The influence of Edgar Allen Poe on modern Chinese literature. In : The University of Mississippi studies in English ; N.S., vol. 3 (1982).[This article is adapted from the M.A. thesis by Mr. Sheng Ning for the Department of Western Languages and Literature of Peking University in 1981]. | Publication / Poe5 |
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