| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第9-10页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第10页 |
| 摘要 | 第11-14页 |
| CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION | 第14-19页 |
| 1.1 Welty and Her Literary Creation | 第14-15页 |
| 1.2 Welty’s Three Works and the Theme of Death | 第15-18页 |
| 1.3 Thesis Structure | 第18-19页 |
| CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW | 第19-30页 |
| 2.1 Research Abroad | 第19-24页 |
| 2.2 Research at Home | 第24-30页 |
| CHAPTER III HEIDEGGER’S PHILOSOPHY OF DEATH AND DASEIN | 第30-36页 |
| 3.1 Justification of the Connection Between Death and Dasein | 第30-31页 |
| 3.2 Dasein in Two Categories: Authenticity and In-authenticity | 第31-34页 |
| 3.3 Applicability of Heidegger’s Philosophy to This Study | 第34-36页 |
| CHAPTER IV CONNECTION BETWEEN DEATH AND DAS EIN IN W ELTY’SWORKS | 第36-52页 |
| 4.1 Being Totalized by Death | 第37-45页 |
| 4.1.1 Reinterpretation of Possibilities of Being Itself | 第37-41页 |
| 4.1.2 Reestablishment of Possibilities of Being Itself | 第41-45页 |
| 4.2 Being Individualized by Death | 第45-52页 |
| 4.2.1 Irreplaceable Death as the Self-Made Choice by Being Itself | 第45-48页 |
| 4.2.2 Inevitable Death as the Ending of Being | 第48-52页 |
| CHAPTER V“BEING TOWARDS DEATH”IN WELTY’S WORKS | 第52-76页 |
| 5.1 Inauthentic Being in the Flux of Southern America | 第52-63页 |
| 5.1.1 Fallingness into Inauthentic Self | 第53-59页 |
| 5.1.2 Thrownness into Publicized Discourse | 第59-63页 |
| 5.2 The Existential Construction of Authentic Being | 第63-76页 |
| 5.2.1 Meditation on Inauthentic Being | 第64-67页 |
| 5.2.2 Conscience as Enlightenment | 第67-70页 |
| 5.2.3 Projection as Quest for Authentic Being | 第70-76页 |
| CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION | 第76-78页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第78-83页 |
