| Acknowledgments | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-9页 |
| Part Ⅰ Introduction: Mock Heroic Style: Humor and Tragedy | 第9-18页 |
| Part Ⅱ Situational Comic Scenes in A Savage World | 第18-33页 |
| 1． Funerals, cemetery and gravestones | 第18-27页 |
| 2． Marriages, wedding and local custom | 第27-30页 |
| 3． Manhunt, abattoir and gladiator | 第30-33页 |
| Part Ⅲ Caricaturized Giants Around Man-horse-demon | 第33-54页 |
| 1． Individual caricatures | 第33-42页 |
| 2． Shared caricatures | 第42-51页 |
| 3． Heroism in the Old South | 第51-54页 |
| Part Ⅳ City on A Hill: the Utopian Design of Hero-of-heroes | 第54-69页 |
| 1． An American Dream in the South: Sutpen's Hundred | 第55-64页 |
| 2． Disillusion: Sutpen's One | 第64-69页 |
| Part Ⅴ Conclusion: Pity and Sympathy as the Theme | 第69-78页 |
| Notes | 第78-82页 |
| Bibliography | 第82-95页 |
