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非全日制硕士研究生学位论文计划 姓名 专业 英语语言文学 专业方向 题目 Exploration of Allan Poe’s Narrative Art in His Detective Stories 1、主要论点： With the growing study and research in Poe’s works and his personality, his contribution and profound influence on detective stories have been widely acknowledged in literature critiques. It is convinced by the modern critics that Poe is one of the greatest literary figures in the U.S., who has fathered many things, one of which is the detective stories. Many authors, either American or European, such as T.S.Eliot, William Faulkner and Conan Doyle, all inherited and further developed his writing style. He created detective stories, enriched the subjects of writing and broadened the fields of description. Poe is considered the originator of western detective stories. This paper will explore Allan Poe’s narrative art in his detective stories. Based on the narratology thoeries, this paper will further analyze Poe’s characterization, focalization strategy and classical paradigm in his detective stories. 2、文献综述、主要内容、研究方法、难点重点： Literature Review 文献综述: Domestic Research Poe’s works include short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he gained particularly high reputation as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. In China，studies in Poe’s novels are conducted from 3 aspects: published Tranlations, literature history and relevant publications, critical articles. Now, Allan Poe’s all novels have been already translated into Chinese, Professor Cao Minglun has a good reputation in the field in China, Allan Poe’s Portfolio was published by SDX Joint Publishing Company (Beijing)in 1995, and in April 1998, “Humorous Tales by Allan Poe” and other translation works were published as well. The books of researching Poe have been published continuously, such a