| 中文摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Chapter One An Introduction to Willa Cather and Her Three Works | 第9-16页 |
| 1.1 An Introduction to Willa Cather | 第9-11页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第11-15页 |
| 1.3 A Brief Introduction to Cather's Three Works | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter Two Charlene Spretnak and Her Ecological Postmodernism | 第16-22页 |
| 2.1 Charlene Spretnak | 第16-17页 |
| 2.2 A Brief Introduction to Ecological Postmodernism | 第17-22页 |
| Chapter Three The Ecological Imbalance and Crises in Willa Cather'sWorks | 第22-43页 |
| 3.1 The Alienated Self and Human Relationship | 第22-33页 |
| 3.1.1 The Distorted Body-mind Relationship Within Self | 第22-27页 |
| 3.1.2 The Alienated Human Relationship | 第27-31页 |
| 3.1.3 The Unequal Male-female Relationship | 第31-33页 |
| 3.2 The Crises in Human-Nature Relationship | 第33-36页 |
| 3.2.1 The Domination of the Ideologies of "Consumption" and "Bureaucratism" | 第34-35页 |
| 3.2.2 The Expansion of "Anthropocentrism" | 第35-36页 |
| 3.3 The Neglect of "the Complex Sense of Place" | 第36-43页 |
| 3.3.1 Abandonment of the Original Living Place | 第37-39页 |
| 3.3.2 Contempt for Indigenous Peoples | 第39-43页 |
| Chapter Four The Ecological Postmodern Solutions to the EcologicalImbalance | 第43-67页 |
| 4.1 The Amendment to the Alienation with "the Knowing Body" | 第43-57页 |
| 4.1.1 Resurgence of the Body-mind Relationship | 第44-48页 |
| 4.1.2 Amendment to the Distorted Human Relationship | 第48-53页 |
| 4.1.3 Advocacy of the Equal Male-female Relationship | 第53-57页 |
| 4.2 The Practice of the Concept—"the Creative Cosmos" | 第57-61页 |
| 4.3 The Resurgence of "the Complex Sense of Place" | 第61-67页 |
| 4.3.1 Adherence to the Original Hometown | 第62-65页 |
| 4.3.2 Self-independence of the Indigenous Peoples | 第65-67页 |
| Conclusion: Major Findings,Implications and Limitations | 第67-69页 |
| Bibliography | 第69-72页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第72-73页 |
| 简历 | 第73-74页 |
| 攻读学位期间已发表和录用的论文 | 第74页 |
