| ABSTRACT | 第1-3页 |
| 摘要 | 第3-6页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第6-13页 |
| ·The Writer and His Novel | 第7-9页 |
| ·Don DeLillo | 第7-8页 |
| ·Falling Man | 第8-9页 |
| ·Literature Review on Falling Man | 第9-11页 |
| ·Objectives of This Study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundations | 第13-18页 |
| ·The Cultural Poetics View of History and Literature | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Historicity of Texts and the Textuality of Histories | 第14-15页 |
| ·Negotiation and Self-fashioning | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter Three The Historicity of Fulling Man and Fulling Man'sTextualized9/11 | 第18-32页 |
| ·Falling Alan's Social Background and DeLillo's Confronting with 9/11 | 第18-20页 |
| ·DeLillo's Counternarrative in Falling Man | 第20-32页 |
| ·An Elegy of the Ordinary Americans' Post-9/11 Trauma | 第21-29页 |
| ·Keith and Florence's Post-9/11 Traumatic Disorientation | 第21-25页 |
| ·Lianne's 9/11 Traumatic Struggling | 第25-27页 |
| ·Children's 9/11 Mystery—Justin and the Siblings | 第27-29页 |
| ·A Historical Scanning of Terrorist's Falling Process | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter Four DeLillo's "Negotiation" and "Self-fashioning" with 9/11 | 第32-45页 |
| ·9/11 and Terrorism | 第32-36页 |
| ·Amir: an Image of Terrorism | 第33-35页 |
| ·Hammad: a Victim of Terrorism | 第35-36页 |
| ·9/11 and Politics. Economy and the Image of the USA | 第36-40页 |
| ·Nina: an Assenter of the Mainstream Media | 第37-38页 |
| ·Martin: a Former "White-terrorist" and Calm Outsider | 第38-40页 |
| ·9/11 and the Ethical Caring | 第40-45页 |
| ·David Janiak: a Performance Artist | 第41-42页 |
| ·Don DeLillo:a "Dangerous" Writer | 第42-45页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第45-47页 |
| References | 第47-50页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第50-52页 |
