Edgar Allen Poe's Ecological Discourse: A Bioregional Narrative in ＂Silence: A Fable＂

試論愛倫坡的生態論述：〈沉默：寓言一則〉中的生態地域敘事

羅宜柔(Yi-jou Lo)

生態地域敘事 ； 存在巨鏈 ； 沉默 ； Bioregional Narrative ； Great Chain of Being ； Silence

修平學報

30期（2015 / 03 / 01）

177 - 189

英文

愛倫坡（Edgar Allen Poe）在其（沉默：寓言一則）（“Silence: A Fable＂）中，設定主角惡魔（Demon）拒斥所在環境，追求生態以他為主要關注焦點，但事與願違，周遭事物加上一「不出色男子」（an indistinct man）構成「荒蕪」市界（desolation），也因而觸怒了惡魔。對比文中盡是自然地域的描寫與躍動，惡魔終未學會沉默而只能隨忘川（lynx）結束全文敘事。本文主要透過晨尼〈後現代環境倫理〉一文有關生態地域敘事的概念為主軸，進一步導引並解析愛倫坡的生態體系銘刻愛倫坡故事中的生態敘事視角。

In ＂Silence: A Fable,＂ the Demon, similar to most of Poe's characters, refused to communicate but aspired for singular attention upon him. However, a myriad of species and plants are listed in ＂Silence: A Fable＂ as if to make an eco-circle as a contrast of the lonely Demon. The Demon did not acquire the tentative focus and thus this fable distinguishes itself in its ＂rounding narrative without essentializing the idea of self＂ (Cheney 339). Cheney in his ＂Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative＂ dubs the discourse with the term, ＂bioregional narrative.＂ Based on Cheney's bioregional narrative and development, this paper intends to explore Poe's eco-systematical depiction and bioregional perspective to see how the postmodern bioregional narrative is applicable in the interpretation of an American Romanticist, Poe's works.

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