摘要在爱伦·坡的众多短篇小说中有一主题是被反复提及的——“美女之死”，如短篇小说《莱吉亚》、《贝蕾妮丝》、《厄舍屋的倒塌》等。格式塔心理学美学是格式塔心理学与文艺学相结合，“主张通过心理学研究成果来把握美学问题”。本文意在通过对《贝蕾妮丝》进行探讨，并结合格式塔心理原理和中外现有研究成果，对该作品的叙述手法和格式塔美学进行对照并解析。通过上述探讨，以期达到对小说中的叙述方法进行较为深入的研究和了解。84707

毕业论文关键词  爱伦·坡  “美女之死”  《贝蕾妮丝》  格式塔心理美学   

毕 业 论 文 外 文 摘 要

Title    A Gestalt Interpretation of“Berenice” 

Abstract    One subject, “Death of beauty”, is always brought up in most of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, such as “Ligeia”, “Berenice”, and “The Fall of The House of Usher”。 Gestalt aesthetics combines gestalt psychology and the theory of literature, which focuses on studying the aesthetic issues with psychological research results。 This paper is intended to make comparative analysis on the narrative methods used in “Berenice” and gestalt aesthetics through discussion about this work and the combination of the current research results of gestalt aesthetics both at home and abroad, in the hope of achieving further study and understanding on the narrative methods in the stories through the discussion。

Keywords:  Edgar Allan Poe;  Death of beauty;  “Berenice”;  Gestalt aesthetics

Table of Contents

1  Introduction 1

1。1  Poe’ s Life 1

1。2  Gestalt Aesthetics 2

1。3  “Berenice” 3

2  Literature Review 4

2。1  Research of “Death of Beauty” 4

2。2  Research of “Berenice” 4

2。3  Research of Gestalt Aesthetics 5

3  Connection Between “Berenice” and Gestalt Aesthetics 8

3。1  Heterogeneous Isomorphism 8

3。2  Law of Closure 9

Conclusion 12

Acknowledgements 13

References 14

1  Introduction

   Edgar Allan Poe is a famous writer in the 19th century, who is best known for his poems, and stories of terror, as well as “Death of beauty”。 Some of his stories were based on the influence of his childhood experience, struggling with the loved ones’ death (Chen, 2010, p。 5)。

    In “Berenice”, Poe told us a horrible story with the theme of “Death of beauty” in the way of Gestalt aesthetics which was a new trial for Poe。 It was a gestalt aesthetic story that was different from his other tales, combining psychology with literature successfully。 论文网

    Gestalt psychology, first introduced in 1912, focuses on the wholeness of experience and behavior。 It believes that wholeness is not the sum of the parts, consciousness is not the combination of the elements of feelings, and behavior is not the circulation of reflex arc。 The word “Gestalt” has two connotations, one of which is shape or form, namely the nature of objects; another is a concrete entity and its characteristics of having special shapes or forms。 It is about the object itself, not its special form, which is just an attribute of the object, so from this perspective, Gestalt means any separated whole (Li, 2010, p。 4)。