埃德加·爱伦·坡不仅是诗人、小说家,还是重要的文学批评家。其中在小说理论方面,他认为应该追求效果与气氛,使作品的内容完全服从于艺术效果。他坚持一个作家在动笔前就要周密的考虑自己要达到的预定效果。这就是坡在作品尤其是小说中一直实践着的“效果美学”。在创作中,坡“几乎总是从关心作品的具体效果这一美学角度来调整修改作品的主题和模式。①”本文拟从坡的短篇小说入手,以《鄂榭古屋的倒塌》为代表,分析坡是如何将他的效果美学理论运用于自己的文本的。从而帮助读者更好的来理解坡的创作及其思想。 Edgar Allan Poe is not only a poet, novelist, or important literary critic. In fiction theory, he thinks he should pursue the effect and the atmosphere so that the content of the work is completely subject to the artistic effect. He insisted that a writer think carefully about his intended effect before writing. This is Slope’s “aesthetic aesthetics” that has always been practiced in works, especially novels. In his writing, “almost always adjusts and modifies the theme and mode of his works from the aesthetic point of view of the concrete effect of the work.” "This article intends to start from the short story of Po, Representative, analyzing how Slope applied his aesthetics theory to his own texts. To help readers better understand the creation of Slope and its thinking.