| Abstract in Chinese | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-10页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| 2 Factors leading to Faulkner's postmodernism | 第12-20页 |
| ·The Southern background | 第12-14页 |
| ·Faulkner family's background | 第14-16页 |
| ·Faulkner and postmodernism | 第16-20页 |
| 3 Postmodernism as a heir of modernism | 第20-36页 |
| ·A comparison between modernism and postmodernism | 第20-27页 |
| ·Postmodernism in America | 第27-29页 |
| ·Three major postmodernist features to be discussed | 第29-36页 |
| ·Indeterminacy | 第29-32页 |
| ·Anti-authority | 第32-33页 |
| ·Meta-fiction | 第33-36页 |
| 4 Postmodernist features of Absalom, Absalom! | 第36-62页 |
| ·Introduction to Absalom, Absalom! | 第36-37页 |
| ·Postmodernist features in Absalom, Absalom! | 第37-62页 |
| ·Indeterminacy in Absalom, Absalom! | 第37-44页 |
| ·Indeterminacy in its style | 第37-39页 |
| ·Indeterminacy in its time and its space of map | 第39-41页 |
| ·Indeterminacy in its structure | 第41-42页 |
| ·Indeterminacy in its plots and character | 第42-44页 |
| ·Anti-authority in Absalom, Absalom! | 第44-58页 |
| ·Fight against fatherhood | 第44-57页 |
| ·Fight against fatherhood | 第44-47页 |
| ·Comprehensive analysis to Sutpen's fatherhood | 第47-57页 |
| ·Fight against racism | 第57-58页 |
| ·Absalom, Absalom! as a meta-fiction | 第58-62页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第62-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-66页 |
