| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第10-21页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Envisioning Tribal Communication in The Zoo Story | 第21-31页 |
| 1.1 Humanity's Spiritual Crisis after the Cold War | 第21-23页 |
| 1.2 The Zoo Story as a Tragicomedy of Failed Communication | 第23-27页 |
| 1.3 Out of the Zoo:Seeking Communication | 第27-31页 |
| Chapter ⅡDebating Modern Evolution in Seascape | 第31-43页 |
| 2.1 The Environmental Movement in the 1970s | 第31-33页 |
| 2.2 Seascape as a Tragicomedy of Evolution Dilemma | 第33-37页 |
| 2.3 City Troubles and the Temptation of Nature | 第37-43页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Interrogating Animal Ethics in The Goat or Who is Sylvia? | 第43-56页 |
| 3.1 Issues of Animal Ethics in Modern Society | 第43-46页 |
| 3.2 The Goat or,Who Is Sylvia?as an Absurd Tragedy of Sodomy | 第46-49页 |
| 3.3 An Abnormal Love for Nature | 第49-56页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第56-59页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第59-62页 |
