Acknowledgements4-5
Abstract5-7
摘要7-11
Chapter 1 Introduction11-21
1.1 Phipp Roth—The Living Literary Legend11-14
1.2 Phipp Roth's Masterpiece——American Pastoral14-16
1.3 Critical Reviews of American Pastoral at Home and Abroad16-18
1.4 Objectives and Structure of the Thesis18-21
Chapter 2 Theoretical Framework21-29
2.1 Postmoderni and Moderni21-25
2.2 American Postmodernist Fiction25-29
Chapter 3 Postmoderni Reflected in the Multiple Themes of American Pastoral29-42
3.1 The End of Reason and Order29-33
3.1.1 The Rational Men in the Irrational World29-30
3.1.2 Disorder and Irrationapty in the Society30-31
3.1.3 Disorder and Irrationapty in the Family31-33
3.2 American Dreams in The Lost Paradise33-37
3.2.1 Evolvement of the American Dream33-35
3.2.2 Lou Levov's American Dream in the Lost Paradise35-36
3.2.3 Seymour Levov's American Dream in the Lost Paradise36-37
3.3 Confusion and Loss of Identity37-42
3.3.1 Confusion and Loss of Identity in the Postmodern Society37-38
3.3.2 Seymour Levov's Loss of His Identity38-39
3.3.3 Merry Levov's Confusion in the Search for Her Identity39-42
Chapter 4 Roth's Postmodernist Strategies to Construct the Themes of American Pastoral42-56
4.1 Roth's Postmodernist Writing Techniques in American Pastoral42-50
4.1.1 Parody as Postmodernist Code42-45
4.1.2 Nostalgia as Postmodernist Pattern45-50
4.2 Roth's Postmodernist Narrative Art in American Pastoral50-56
4.2.1 Fragmented Plot50-53
4.2.2 A Blend of History and Fiction53-56
Chapter 5 Conclusion56-59
References59-63
攻读硕士学位期间科研成果63