| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT(Chinese) | 第6-9页 |
| ABSTRACT (English) | 第9-12页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter I Influence of Wagnerian music on Cather and her writings | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter II Concept of Nietzsche's Dionysian & Apollonian | 第18-23页 |
| Chapter III Cather's opinions about music, musicians and art giving a picture of the opposing Apollonian / Dionysian, and its influence on her writings | 第23-29页 |
| Chapter IV Different causes to the failure of Cather's artists | 第29-47页 |
| 1) Totally absorbed in the Apollonian, and thus the suppression of the Dionysian is harmful. Two major factors leading to the suppression of the Dionysian are: | 第29-43页 |
| A. Socratic reason | 第30-39页 |
| B. Christianity | 第39-43页 |
| 2) Dionysian world can also be destructive | 第43-47页 |
| Chapter V. The balance between Dionysian and Apollonian is necessary for great work | 第47-59页 |
| Chapter VI. Superman in Cather's successful artists | 第59-76页 |
| 1) open defiance and struggle | 第60-63页 |
| 2) life-affirming and the relish of life | 第63-68页 |
| 3) sense of earth | 第68-72页 |
| 4) no longer affected by "pity, suffering..." | 第72-74页 |
| 5) superior beings | 第74-76页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第76-81页 |
| CHRONOLOGY of Cather and Nietzsche | 第81-85页 |
| Cather's Biography | 第85-87页 |
| Bibliography | 第87-89页 |
