On At the Mountains of Madness-Enveloping the Cosmic Horror

論《於瘋狂之山》：封印宇宙恐懼

李家沂(Chia Yi Lee)

horror ； science ； supplementarity ； 恐懼 ； 科學 ； 補遺性

歐美研究

39卷1期（2009 / 03 / 01）

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英文

As the culmination of H. P. Lovecraft's late style in delineating the cosmic horror, At the Mountains of Madness poses several questions, the most interesting of which may concern the story's narrative efficacy in evoking horror that has been presented in the form of science fiction or, to be more precise, in scientific realism. The pivot of this narrative revolves round the novelette's central sections (7 and 8) where a genealogy of the sentient entities that precede humans' earthly emergence is recorded. Whether the genealogical enveloping of the cosmic other can summon up the cosmic horror as is textually intended, and what function the enveloping plays against the backdrop of the story as a whole-these will be the main concerns of this paper.

《於瘋狂之山》為美國恐怖小說作家勒孚克萊夫特晚期描寫宇宙恐懼之代表作。該作品以科幻小說處理恐懼主題的敘事模式，或確切言之，以科學性寫實主義描摹恐懼的嘗試，引人深思作品是否能有效誘發恐懼之感受性。《於瘋狂之山》共為十二節，其中七、八兩節可謂科學性寫實主義淋漓發揮之所。此二節翔實記錄了遠古於地球人類物種肇始，便已存在之諸外星智慧生命體的系譜。本論文處理之中心議題，即為此嘗試封存宇宙他者的書寫印記，能否召喚宇宙恐懼，及從作品整體的文本性觀之，此一封印的功能與意義為何。

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