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美国作家爱伦·坡在作品中把东方描绘成为幸福与智慧的乐园,呈现出一种肯定的、乌托邦式的异域想象;但是,客观存在的东方并没有将其作品中所描述的得到真实的重现,而是成为他反思19世纪美国社会的媒介和对自身文化进行批判的手段。因此,联系19世纪历史文化语境,考察爱伦·坡小说中的异域想象,或许可以帮助我们更好地理解十九世纪美国作家对当时的“进步观念”的反思及其复杂的文化心理。
The American writer Allan Poe described portraying the East as a paradise of happiness and wisdom in his works, presenting a positive and utopian exotic imagination. However, the objective existence of the East does not give a true picture of what is described in his works But rather as a means of reconsidering the nineteenth-century American society and of critiquing one’s own culture. Therefore, contacting the historical and cultural context of the 19th century and examining the exotic imagination in Allan Poe may help us to better understand the introspection and complex culture of the “progressive idea” of the 19th century by American writers psychological.