Abstract Edgar Allan Poe in his transient and woeful lifetime, examines thoroughly the survival plight and the crisis of development of human being in 19th century by his wisdom, forethought and scientific rigor, and creates a number of fictions full of modern meaning with his unique writing style. Poe is regarded as the ancestor of modernisms and the founder of the modern literature. The Man of the Crowd, one of Poe’s fictions full of modern meaning, is a short story tinged with Poe’s biography, in which Poe truly elaborates and represents different kinds of people who shuttling back and forth the streets of London. Poe’s description not only represents the modern people’s barren spirit and emotional loneliness which owing to the human nature being distorted and alienated by the modern industrial civilization, but also embodies Poe’s profound anxiety and infinite care for the survival plight and the crisis development of human being. The protagonist in The Man of the Crowd is a nameless solitary old man, he chasing the crowd day and night, and pushing about frequently in the crowd, merely for the sake of avoiding loneliness and perting himself from emptiness. In a sense, the old man’s queer behavior not only reveals the predicament of Edgar Allan Poe as the artist in the process of industrialization, modernization and urbanization, but also discloses Poe’s indescribable loneliness, helpless and anguish.
Key Words: Edgar Allan Poe, The Man of the Crowd, loneliness and emptiness, industrialization and modernization
摘要埃德加•爱伦•坡在其短暂而坎坷的一生中，凭借其睿智的眼光、科学的严谨性和远见卓识，洞察了19世纪上半叶人类的生存困境和发展危机，用独特的文风创作了一大批极富现代意义的小说，并一直被人们尊奉为“现代主义各流派的高祖”和“现代主义文学的鼻祖”。其中，短篇小说《人群中的人》就是这类小说的代表作之一。《人群中的人》是爱伦•坡略显带自传色彩的短篇小说，在小说中他以现实主义的白描手法，对穿梭于伦敦大街小巷形形色色的人群做了详尽而又细致的描写，既传达了人类在现代工业文明笼罩之下，人性被扭曲、异化之后所衍生出的精神空虚、情感孤寂等现代人的精神状态，也表达了爱伦•坡对人类的生存困境和发展危机的深刻焦虑和无限关怀。《人群中的人》描写的老人无名无姓，他没日没夜地追逐人群，在人群中不断地挤来挤去，为的是躲避孤独，排遣孤寂。从某种意义上来说，老人的这种奇怪行为也从另一个侧面揭示了爱伦•坡作为一位特立独行的唯美艺术家在工业化、现代化和都市化进程中的艰难处境，以及其内心深处无法排遣的孤独、苦闷和无奈。
关键词：爱伦•坡，人群中的人，孤独与空虚，工业化和现代化5874
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments i
Abstract ii
摘要 iii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 The Brief Introduction of Edgar Allan Poe 2
1.2 The Classification of Poe’s Works 4
1.3 The Plot Summary of The Man of the Crowd 4
2 Edgar Allan Poe and His Art of Doubling 6
2.1 The Seeing and Reading in The Man of the Crowd 7
2.2 Poe’s Predicament As The Artist 8
2.3 The Man of the Crowd and the Man outside the Crowd 10
3 The Loneliness and the Mystery of Deep Crime 11
3.1 The Specimen of Man and the Inpiduality 11
3.2 The Flaneur Character in The Man of the Crowd 12
3.3 The Mystery of Deep Crime in the Old Man 13
4 Conclusion 16 爱伦•坡小说《人群中的人》的现代阐释:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_3121.html