Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque(II) 怪誕蔓藤花紋的傳說怪異故事集(英文版)
Thisworkisacollectionofpreviously-publishedshortstoriesfromthedarkpenofEdgarAllanPoe,firstpublishedin1840.Poewrotethenow-famousquotedefendinghimselffromthecriticismthathistaleswerepartof"Germanism"Inprefaceofthisbook,"Ifinmanyofmyproductionsterrorhasbeenthethesis,ImaintainthatterrorisnotofGermanybutofthesoul".ThecollectionwasdedicatedtoColonelWilliamDrayton,anonymousauthorofTheSouthVindicatedfromtheTreasonandFanaticismoftheNorthernAbolitionists.The"arabesque"storiesfocusonasingleaspectofacharacter,oftenpsychological,suchas"TheFalloftheHouseofUsher".AdistantrelativeofPoe,modernscholarHarryLeePoe,wrotethat"grotesque"means"horror",whichisgoryandoftendisgusting,and"arabesque"means"terror",whichforsakesthebloodandgoreforthesakeoffrighteningthereader.[8]Evenso,accuratelydefiningPoe'sintentionsforthetermsisdifficultandsubdividinghistalesintoonecategoryoranotherisevenmoredifficult.Thisworkisacollectionofpreviously-publishedshortstoriesfromthedarkpenofEdgarAllanPoe,firstpublishedin1840.
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