| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-21页 |
| 0.1 Literature Review of Cormac McCarthy and Blood Meridian | 第12-17页 |
| 0.2 Cultural Geography and Cormac McCarthy's Concern of Wilderness | 第17-20页 |
| 0.3 The Proposed Framework of the Thesis | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter One The Landscape of the West as Wilderness and Violence | 第21-28页 |
| 1.1 The Hostility of Natural Environment in the West | 第22-23页 |
| 1.2 Natural Violence and "Optical Democracy" in the West | 第23-28页 |
| Chapter Two Western Heroes as Wilderness and Violence | 第28-36页 |
| 2.1 Judge Holden as God of War | 第29-33页 |
| 2.2 The Kid as the Inheritor of American Empire | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter Three The West Myth and Violence in the West | 第36-42页 |
| 3.1 The West as the Virgin Land and Garden | 第37-39页 |
| 3.2 McCarthy's West as the Wilderness and Frontier | 第39-42页 |
| Conclusion | 第42-44页 |
| Works Cited | 第44-47页 |
