20世纪后期,随着西方思想界发生的空间转向,空间问题成为诸多人文社会学科关注的焦点,空间叙事研究也逐渐兴起。以空间叙事学理论为基础,分析爱伦·坡恐怖小说中的地形学空间、时空体空间和文本空间,可以从一个全新的视角展现“空间”在叙事中的功能作用。 In the late twentieth century, with the turning of the space in the western thought world, the issue of space has become the focus of many humanities and social sciences, and the study of spatial narration has also been gradually emerging. Based on the theory of spatial narratology, analyzing the topographic space, space-time volume and text space in Allan Poe’s horror novels can reveal the functional role of “space ” in narration from a brand new perspective.