| Acknowledgements | 第6-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction to Cormac McCarthy and Blood Meridian | 第13-23页 |
| 1.1 Introduction to Cormac McCarthy and His Works | 第13-16页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第16-19页 |
| 1.3 Theoretical Basis | 第19-23页 |
| Chapter Two The Myth of the West in American Official History | 第23-35页 |
| 2.1 The West as a National Myth | 第23-28页 |
| 2.1.1 A Romanticized Frontier of Turner | 第23-26页 |
| 2.1.2 Westward Expansion as Manifest Destiny | 第26-28页 |
| 2.2 Regeneration through Violence | 第28-35页 |
| 2.2.1 The Tradition of Violence in the Wild West | 第29-31页 |
| 2.2.2 Violence as a Myth-Shaping Language | 第31-35页 |
| Chapter Three The Representation of the West in Blood Meridian | 第35-57页 |
| 3.1 The Dark Version of the American West in Blood Meridian | 第35-41页 |
| 3.1.1 Agents of Manifest Destiny: Filibusters | 第35-38页 |
| 3.1.2 The Scalp Industry in Northern Mexico | 第38-41页 |
| 3.2 The Representational Violence in Blood Meridian | 第41-50页 |
| 3.2.1 The Judge’s Textual Power | 第42-46页 |
| 3.2.2 Other Members as Silenced Others | 第46-50页 |
| 3.3 The Moral Ambiguity of Blood Meridian | 第50-57页 |
| 3.3.1 Regeneration or Degeneration through Violence | 第50-53页 |
| 3.3.2 Blood Meridian’s Historical Skepticism | 第53-57页 |
| Chapter Four McCarthy’s Strategies in Reconstructing the West | 第57-70页 |
| 4.1. Intertextuality | 第57-63页 |
| 4.1.1 Intertextuality with My Confession | 第57-60页 |
| 4.1.2 Intertextuality with Historical Documents | 第60-63页 |
| 4.2 Parody | 第63-70页 |
| 4.2.1 A Parody of Western Landscape | 第63-65页 |
| 4.2.2 A Parody of Western Heroes | 第65-70页 |
| Conclusion | 第70-72页 |
| Notes | 第72-75页 |
| Bibliography | 第75-79页 |
