Formulas of Edgar Allan Poe’s Detective Story  

作　　者：武耀萍 

机构地区：[1]兰州大学外国语学院

出　　处：《海外英语》2019年第14期243-244,共2页Overseas English

摘　　要：Allan Poe has been deemed as the founder of modern detective story. This paper mainly talks about his contributions tomake this new genre a formal sub-genre of literature. Techniques he used in his short stories, locked-room murder and the arm-chair detective, have become the classical conventions of detective story. The eccentric but brilliant protagonist, Auguste Dupin inhis story, has become a model of the later detectives. Poe has also contributed to define the detective story as some kind of intellec-tual game, the plot of which concentrates on the process of investigation.Allan Poe has been deemed as the founder of modern detective story. This paper mainly talks about his contributions tomake this new genre a formal sub-genre of literature. Techniques he used in his short stories, locked-room murder and the arm-chair detective, have become the classical conventions of detective story. The eccentric but brilliant protagonist, Auguste Dupin inhis story, has become a model of the later detectives. Poe has also contributed to define the detective story as some kind of intellec-tual game, the plot of which concentrates on the process of investigation.

关 键 词：DETECTIVE STORY Allan POE Mode locked-room MURDER ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE 

分 类 号：I106.4[文学—世界文学]