外国文学研究 ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 75-86.

• 文学跨学科研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

泄密的声音:爱伦·坡小说中的视听之争

于雷   

  • 发布日期:2021-08-29
  • 作者简介:于雷,北京外国语大学外国文学研究所教授,主要从事19世纪英美文学与媒介技术史研究。
  • 基金资助:
    北京外国语大学“双一流”建设项目“外语学科核心话题前沿研究文库”(2020SYLZDXM044)

The Tell-Tale Sound: The Conflict between the Visual and the Acoustic in Poe's Fiction

Yu Lei   

  • Published:2021-08-29
  • About author:Yu Lei is Professor of English at the Research Institute of Foreign Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University (Beijing 100089, China), specializing in the 19th-century English and American literature and the history of media technology. Email: yulei@bfsu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    A “Double First-Class Initiative” project, “The Frontier Studies Library of Core Topics in Foreign Languages and Literatures,” sponsored by Beijing Foreign Studies University (2020SYLZDXM044)

内容摘要: 坡的小说往往凸出听觉认知对视觉认知的消解或改造,以某种超前意识预设了麦克卢汉围绕人脑认知结构所做出的视听空间阐述。基于这一理论意义上的同构现象,拟考察女性气质与听觉空间在坡的笔下所产生的耦合效应,着重分析女性(乃至于某些情形下的象征性动物)如何挑战权力化的视觉认知空间,悄然将传统视觉思维的线性逻辑反转为以“去中心化”“去等级化”的听觉模式为认知内核的非线性逻辑,说明声音如何在坡小说的关键节点成为揭示文本社会政治内涵的独特通道。

关键词: 爱伦·坡, 麦克卢汉, 声音, 视听之争

Abstract: Poe's fiction tends to highlight the disintegrative or reformative influence of the acoustic upon the visual, prophesying what Marshall McLuhan would elaborate on the acoustic and the visual spaces regarding the cognitive structure of the brain. Based on this theoretical isomorphism, this article intends to explore the coupling effect between femininity and the acoustic space in Poe's fiction, and to analyze, in particular, how female characters (and even symbolized beasts under certain circumstances) challenge the empowered space of visual cognition, furtively turning the linear logic of the traditional visual cognition into the non-linear logic that has as its core the decentralized and dehierarchized acoustic mode, so as to illustrate how the sound functins as a unique channel, through which Poe brings to light, at certain crucial points in his fiction, the socio-political connotations of the text.

Key words: Poe, McLuhan, sound, the conflict between the visual and the acoustic

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