| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-10页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·A literature review on As I Lay Dying | 第10-13页 |
| ·The significance of studying As I Lay Dying from the perspective of narrative structure | 第13-14页 |
| ·The thesis's chapter synopsis | 第14-16页 |
| 2. Greimas' Narrative Structure | 第16-19页 |
| 3. The Application of Greimas' Narrative Structure in As I Lay Dying | 第19-27页 |
| ·The embodiment of semantic rectangle in As I Lay Dying | 第19-22页 |
| ·Two prominent cases in the semantic rectangle | 第22-27页 |
| ·The absence of seme "life" | 第22-24页 |
| ·The dislocation of parental roles | 第24-27页 |
| 4. Alienation, the Source of Absence and Dislocation | 第27-40页 |
| ·Man's alienation from God: man's crisis in religious belief | 第27-30页 |
| ·Man's alienation from nature: man's separation from nature | 第30-32页 |
| ·Man's alienation from society: man's plight of existence | 第32-40页 |
| ·The alienation between husband and wife | 第33-35页 |
| ·The alienation between parents and children | 第35-37页 |
| ·The alienation between sisters and brothers | 第37-40页 |
| 5. Social Causes of Alienation | 第40-46页 |
| ·Alienation caused by the decline of religious belief | 第40-42页 |
| ·Alienation caused by the decline of humanitarianism | 第42-44页 |
| ·Alienation caused by the dehumanization of modernity | 第44-46页 |
| 6. Conclusion | 第46-48页 |
| Bibliography | 第48-50页 |
