| Acknowledgements | 第3-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter One The Snopes Trilogy and New Historicism | 第14-25页 |
| 1.1 Faulkner and the Snopes Trilogy | 第14-16页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第16-21页 |
| 1.3 Theory of New Historicism | 第21-25页 |
| Chapter Two Faulkner's Historical Consciousness in the Trilogy | 第25-36页 |
| 2.1 Faulkner and History | 第25-30页 |
| 2.2 Southern Historical Fragments in the Trilogy | 第30-36页 |
| 2.2.1 People and Events in Real Life | 第30-33页 |
| 2.2.2 The Mansions on the Decline | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter Three Practices of Faulkner's Sense of History in the Trilogy | 第36-50页 |
| 3.1 Faulkner's Strategies to Represent History in the Trilogy | 第36-45页 |
| 3.1.1 Typical Characterization—the Mark Left by History | 第36-40页 |
| 3.1.2 Emplotments of the Trilogy—to Conceive a Waste Town's History | 第40-43页 |
| 3.1.3 Multiple Narrators'Collaboration—to Defend New Force's Ivasion | 第43-45页 |
| 3.2 Faulkner's Metaphorical World | 第45-50页 |
| 3.2.1 Metaphors of Love and Justice | 第46-48页 |
| 3.2.2 Metaphors of the Waste of Love | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Four Reconstruction of History of the South | 第50-65页 |
| 4.1 Women's Subversion to Patriarchy | 第50-55页 |
| 4.1.1 Eula's Grotesque Body | 第51-53页 |
| 4.1.2 Radical Lady—Linda | 第53-55页 |
| 4.2 Poor Whites' Transgression | 第55-61页 |
| 4.2.1 Flem—A Clown's Carnival | 第55-57页 |
| 4.2.2 Flem—A Dethroned Carnival Clown | 第57-61页 |
| 4.3 Modernized Mass Culture's Challenge to Tradition | 第61-65页 |
| Conclusion | 第65-67页 |
| Notes | 第67-74页 |
| Bibliography | 第74-79页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间论文发表情况 | 第79页 |
