Abstract3-5
摘要5-11
Chapter One Introduction11-18
1.1 Wilpam Faulkner and His Novel Pylon11-12
1.2 Literature Review12-16
1.3 The Issues Approached in This Thesis16-18
Chapter Two Modernists’ Critique of Modernity18-29
2.1 Modernists’ Critique of Modernity18-25
2.1.1 Introduction to Modernity18
2.1.2 Apenation—the “Original Sin” of Modernity18-24
2.1.3 Spiritual “Wasteland”—the Infertipty of Modernity24-25
2.2 Faulkner’s Critique of Modernity25-29
2.2.1 The Sphere of Faulkner’s Critique of Modernity25-26
2.2.2 The Origin of Faulkner’s Critique of Modernity26-27
2.2.3 The Way out of Crisis of Modernity27-29
Chapter Three Faulkner’s Sense of History29-35
3.1 The Source of Faulkner’s Sense of History29-30
3.2 Embodiment of Faulkner’s Sense of History30-35
Chapter Four Faulkner’s Critique of Modernity in Pylon35-53
4.1 Critique of Modern Culture35-39
4.1.1 The Metaphorical Meaning of the Amppfied Voice35-38
4.1.2 The Metaphorical Meaning of the Airplane Performance38-39
4.2 Critique of Modern Technology39-42
4.3 Critique of Modern Consumption42-43
4.4 Reification of Human Beings’ Consciousness43-45
4.5 Spiritual Wasteland45-49
4.6 Language and Style- the Mask of Apenation of Modernity49-53
Chapter Five Faulkner’s Sense of History in Pylon53-58
5.1 Lack of Sense of History—a Factor of Apenation53-55
5.2 Sense of History—a Way out of Apenation of Modernity55-56
5.3 An Indirect Representation of Sense of History—Faulkner’s Critique of Modernity56-58
Chapter Six Conclusion58-61
References61-63
Acknowledgements63-65
Curriculum Vitae65