资源描述：
《THE MISSING LINK PARODY, POE AND NABOKOV 英语论文》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在学术论文-天天文库。
1、THEMISSINGLINK:PARODY,POEANDNABOKOVDavidRAMPTON,UniversityofOttawaDavid.Rampton@uottawa.caAbstract:ThedistinctivenessofPoe’sstyleisoneofthedefiningcharacteristicsofhiswork.Questionsofintention,genre,toneandaestheticachievementareinextricablyboundupwithit.Astorylike“LossofBreath”istypicalinthisregard
2、.ThisstylehasoftenmadePoethesubjectofparody,yetinordertowritesuccessfulimitationsofPoeonemustconjurewiththecomplexquestionsthathisstyleraises.Nabokov’streatmentofPoeisinstructiveinthisregard.Nabokov’scriticshavehelpfullypointedouttheinnumerablelinksbetweenthetwowriters,buthismultipleconcernsasanovel
3、istandhisdismissiveattitudetohisgreatnineteenth-centuryforebearpreventhimfromwritingthesortofparodyheisoftengivencreditfor.Keywords:Poe,Nabokov,parody,intertextuality,LolitaNineteenth-centuryAmericanliteratureisfullofwriterswithstrikinglyidiosyncraticstyles.FiguressuchasEmerson,Melville,Hawthorne,Di
4、ckinsonandJameswouldobviouslybeeasytoidentifyina“guesstheauthor”contest,butfarandawaythemostdistinctiveinthisregardisEdgarAllanPoe.Notonlythat:thissinglefactabouthisworkmayalsobeitsmostimportantattribute,inviewoftheeffectthatithashadonhowhehasbeenreadandhowhisachievementhasbeenassessed.Probablythebe
5、stwaytoassignawriteranidiosyncrasyquotientistousesometextthatismanifestlynotamasterpiece,tochoosesomethingotherthan,say,theopeningparagraphofNatureorasinuoussentencefromTheScarletLetter.InPoe’scasethismeansavoiding“TheFalloftheHouseofUsher”or“Ulalume”orTheNarrativeofArthurGordonPym,andlookinginstead
6、forallthetelltaleindicatorsofaPoetextinsomethingdistinctlyminor.Considertheopeningparagraphsof“LossofBreath”,forexample,atalefirstpublishedinSeptember1835intheSouthernLiteraryMessenger.Itbeginswiththenarrator’scoollyinformingusofaquasi-psychoticepisode:hehasbeenscreamingnastyepithetsathisbaffledyoun
7、gbrideandispreparingtowhispersomethingevenmorevileinherear,whenhesuddenlyrealizesthathehaslosthisbreath,notintheformulaicormetaphoricalsenseofthatexpression,butforreal,likeCollegiateAssessorKovalovand
