"Pale Fire" Illuminating The Crystal Land

Through a fusion study from the perspective of poetic iconicity, art technique,and intertextuality, this paper investigates the issue of how Pale Fire transcends deathof work and author with sustainability. By transcending author’s death with thethickness of artistic value and the reader’s rewritingly reading, and transcending thework’s death with the artfulness and reproductivity of the texture, the Pale Fireilluminates the aesthetic end with sustainable fire.Besides the introduction and conclusion, this thesis is composed of three parts.Chapter one studies individualized interpretation by allowing reader’s emotionalparticipation during the mirroring process of form and meaning. The attention to theintertwined effect among form, meaning and feeling brought by the poetic iconicityenlightens us with the individual interpretation of uniqueness and variety. Theemotional participation stamps an enduring mark in the reader’s mind, whereas thereader’s various version of storytelling endows the work the power to sustain. Thesecond chapter foregrounds intertexts being multiplicatively reflected by the chevalglass. In a fashion of reader’s rewritingly reading, the texture obtains the power ofself-organization into different images of new meaning automatically, i.e. thecreativity and reproductivity. In the third chapter, art of artistic value that findscommon ground for the reader is enduring and transcends the author’s decease andthe work’s death. It still employs poetic iconicity to study the aesthetic beautyconcerning the death motif, partly importing Barthes’ author-reader repositioningtheory to address the author’ mortality and reader’s awakening.With the combinational study of reader participation, artfulness and productivityfrom the perspective of poetic iconicity, intertextuality, and art technique, the PaleFire, with its pale fire sustains self-sufficiently, and illuminates a unique way ofliterature appreciation. Nevertheless, this paper still finds it regrettable for not beingable to elaborate the self-organization from the perspective of Chaos Theory due tothe limit of frame, which is probably more explanatory for the sustainability study.