Humor and Allan Poe’s Lionizing

1、幽默和爱伦坡的捧为名流humor and allan poes lionizingabstract: this paper will show readers poes another aspect of writing, humor, through analysis of poes humorous words. currently, most literary experts just divide poes short stories into four types: tales of fantasy, tales of horror, tales of death and tales

2、 of detection. while julian symons, expert on poe, separated tales of humor from other types of poes short stories. following julian symons view, i will simply introduce humor and poes short story lionizing from the viewpoint of humor. during my analysis of lionizing, i am also planning to introduce

3、 influence on poe to adopt humor and the effect that poe achieved with the device of humor. besides, through studying poes humor and lionizing, i just have a try to analyze the narrative techniques in his short stories. whats more, this paper would relieve readers of the viewpoint that allan poes wo

4、rks were always lack of humor. key words: allan poe; humor; lionizing摘要：本文通过对爱伦坡的幽默文字的分析给读者展示其另一种写作风格幽默法。如今，大多数的文学研究专家仅仅把他的短篇小说分为四类：科幻小说、恐怖小说、死亡小说和侦探小说。然而，爱伦坡研究专家朱利安西蒙斯从他的小说中分出了幽默小说这一类。借鉴朱利安西蒙斯的观点，笔者将简单介绍一下幽默，并从幽默的角度分析爱伦坡的捧为名流这篇小说，同时也将介绍一下哪些因素影响着他采用了幽默手法以及他的幽默所达到的高度。通过学习、研究爱伦坡的幽默和捧为名流，笔者给读者展示爱伦坡的短篇小

5、说的叙事技巧。另外，本论文将试图使读者改变对爱伦坡的作品缺乏幽默的认识。关键字：爱伦坡；幽默；捧为名流contentsi. introduction .1ii. literature review .1a. historical critics .11. negative critics .12. active critics .1b. contemporary researches .2c. realistic significance .3iii. humor .3a. definition of humor.3b. division of humor.3c. function of hu

6、mor .4iv. allan poes humor .4a. review of poe with humor .3b. influence on poe to adopt humor .41. culture influence.4 2. social influence.5a. hard capitalism 5b. unique view of art.5c. persona choice of poe with humor .6d. works of poe with humor .7v. analysis of lionizing .7a. the plot of lionizin

7、g .7b. the humor of lionizing .81. demonstration of sentences with humor82. classification of humor into certain figures of speech .83. analysis of each figure of speech .9a. pun .9b. overstatement .9c. iron .9d. paradox .10e. parallelism .10f. climax .11g. repetition.114. statement of effect of fig

8、ures of speech .12c. the influence of lionizing .12vi. conclusion.12works cited.14i. introduction edgar allan poe(18091849), not only one of the most legendary writers in american literature but also one of the most controversial writers, can afford to stand in the world for a whole century for his

9、readers coming, as had ever been said by poe himself (zhou 79). now, he is really a figure in american literature or even the literature of the world, enjoying the honor of pioneer of the detective story, a founder of science fiction and a singular even unique genius of his century (cao 79).either c

10、ommon readers or poes researchers mostly focus on poes several familiar stories such as tales of horror, tales of detection and so on. nevertheless, tales of humor which were separated from poes stories not many years ago are seldom referred to. and even his satirical feature in his stories is hardl

11、y noticed. as a matter of fact, the readers who have ever read poes all works can discover his another style of literature, tales of humor, especially after julian symonss research on poe. as tales of humor make up a third of poes short stories, it is essential to study poes humor and his tales of h

12、umor in order to have a better understanding of poe (zhou 79). so this paper will focus on poes humor, taking “lionizing”, one of his tales of humor, for example.ii. literature reviewa. historical critics1. negative critics:william butler yeats was occasionally critical of poe and once called him “v

13、ulgar”. transcendentalist ralph waldo emerson reacted to the raven by saying “i see nothing in it” and derisively referred to poe as “the jingle man”. and whitman said that it was “its narrow range and unhealthy, lurid quality” that most impressed him. aldous huxley wrote that poes writing “fall int

14、o vulgarity” by being “too poetical”the equivalent of wearing a diamond ring on every finger (mao 57).2. active critics:swinburne, bernard shaw, d. h. lawrence, and w. h. auden all admired and spoke highly of poe. shaws evaluation of poes achievement in the three areas of works as a critic, poet and

15、 short story writer proved to be one of the most comprehensive and insightful. poe was, shaw said on the centenary of his birth, the greatest journalistic critic of his time; his poetry was “exquisitely refined”; and his tales were “complete works of art” (chang 105-106).b. contemporary researches n

16、ow, literary experts always divide poes short stories into four types: tales of fantasy, tales of horror, tales of death and tales of detection (chen, xu 362). they consider poe the inventor of the detective-fiction genre and further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fictio

17、n. expert of allan poe, julian symons, separated tales of humor from other types of allan poes short stories. and simons thought this kind of short stories should not be neglected for people to know about and make researches on allan poe. besides, the author of literature of america, professor cunli

18、ffe, also found humor from poes short stories. and he drew the conclusion that there were some similarities between poes humor and mark twains (cunliffe 172-174).pointing out that readers couldnt understand allan poes writing clearly and thoroughly only based on his tales of detective and tales of horror, cao minglun studied allan poes hidden writing elementhumor. cao pointed that poes humor was sometimes difficult to find and understand. whats more, cao admitted, readers even the experts on allan poe, couldnt figure out the purpose of poes humor. however, cao put forward his view: poes h