| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第12-20页 |
| 1.1 Introduction to Robert Penn Warren and All the King's Men | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 Literature review | 第14-18页 |
| 1.3 Focus and structure of the thesis | 第18-20页 |
| 2. "Terrible Division" of the Age | 第20-37页 |
| 2.1 Reasons for modern man's loss of self-wholeness | 第20-25页 |
| 2.1.1 The South in transition | 第20-23页 |
| 2.1.2 Psychological origin of self-division | 第23-25页 |
| 2.2 Two extreme conflicting opposites | 第25-37页 |
| 2.2.1 Man of "fact" represented by Willie Stark | 第26-30页 |
| 2.2.2 Man of "idea" represented by Adam Stanton | 第30-33页 |
| 2.2.3 Tension between them and their common failure | 第33-37页 |
| 3. Reconciliation with the Divided Selves in Jack Burden | 第37-58页 |
| 3.1 Self-negation:exile between two worlds | 第37-43页 |
| 3.1.1 Contradictory attitudes towards the two sides | 第37-40页 |
| 3.1.2 Self-coined and deceptive philosophies | 第40-43页 |
| 3.2 Self-awareness:from "idealist" to moral realist | 第43-50页 |
| 3.2.1 Historical research of Cass Mastern's story | 第43-46页 |
| 3.2.2 Historical research of Judge Irwin's past | 第46-50页 |
| 3.3 Self-acceptance:birth of a mature responsible adult | 第50-58页 |
| 3.3.1 Ability to assert his manhood | 第50-53页 |
| 3.3.2 Acknowledgment of complexity and sacredness of humanity | 第53-56页 |
| 3.3.3 Ability to narrate his story | 第56-58页 |
| 4. Warren's Philosophy of Self | 第58-65页 |
| 4.1 Self as a development in time | 第58-60页 |
| 4.2 Self as a responsible moral agent | 第60-63页 |
| 4.3 Dynamic process of self-construction | 第63-65页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第65-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-70页 |
