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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'.

Mentioned People (1)

Poe, Edgar Allan  (Boston, Mass. 1809-1849 Baltimore, Md.) : Schriftsteller, Dichter

Subjects

Literature : Occident : United States of America

Documents (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
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
  • Source: Hu, Xiansu. [The latest tendency in European-American modern literature]. In : Dong fang za zhi ; vol. 17 (1920). (Poe7, Publication)
  • Source: Xie, Luyi. [Evolution of Western fiction]. In : Xiao shuo yue bao ; vol. 13 (1922). (Poe8, Publication)
  • Source: [Poe, Edgar Allan]. [Hei ya yi yun]. In : Wen xue zhou kan ; no 100 (1923). Übersetzung von Poe, Edgar Allan. The raven. In : Evening mirror ; 29 Jan. (1845).
    黑鴉疑雲 (Poe9, Publication)
  • Source: [Poe, Edgar Allan]. [The bells]. Zhan Baifu yi. In : Chuang zao yue kan ; vol. 45 (1924). Übersetzung von Poe, Edgar Allan. The bells. In : Sartain's union magazine ; Nov. (1849). (Poe11, Publication)
  • Source: [Poe, Edgar Allan]. [Annabel Lee ; The bells]. In : Wen xue zhou kan ; no 17 (1925). Übersetzung von Poe, Edgar Allan. Annabel Lee. In : New York daily tribune ; 9 Oct. (1849). The bells. In : Sartain's union magazine ; Nov. (1849). (Poe14, Publication)
  • Source: Special issue of the Sunken Bell Society = Chen zhong she. Devoted to Edgar Allan Poe and E.T.A. Hoffmann. (1925).
    [Enthält] :
    Übersetzung von Poe, Edgar Allan. Ligeia. (South Bend, Ind. : Virginia Tech, 1838).
    Übersetzung von Poe, Edgar Allan. Eleonora. In : The gift (1842).
    Übersetzung von Poe, Edgar Allan. The black cat. In : The Saturday Evening Post ; Aug. 19 (1843).
    Transl. by Chen Weimo.
    Übersetzung von Poe, Edgar Allan. The bells. In : Sartain's union magazine ; Nov. (1849).
    Übersetzung von Poe, Edgar Allan. The raven. In : Evening mirror ; 29 Jan. (1845).
    Transl. by Yang Hui.
    Chen, Weimo. Edgar Allan Poe's fiction.
    沉钟社 (Poe15, Publication)
  • Source: Ren, Qiu. [The art of short fiction]. Chen bao fu kan ; nos 2168-2171 (1928). (Poe18, Publication)
  • Cited by: Zentralbibliothek Zürich (ZB, Organisation)
  • Person: Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Person: Sheng, Ning
  • Person: Stauffer, Donald Barlow